Believe me this is a very scrumptious coffee cake…with lots of memories.
In honor of my grandmother who will be 97 years old this May, I want to share with you her recipe for Butter Scrumptious Coffee Cake.
A little history on my grandmother. She was born in 1913 in Alabama. She really had a hard life growing up. When she was young she had scarlet fever and lost all of her hair and when it came back in it was jet black. And that’s the way I remember her most of my life until she turned silver. Her mother died when she was young and she helped to raise most of her brothers and sisters. And, she did literally walk to school barefooted. She remembers picking cotton and pulling her little brother on the cotton sack. That was a hard life. Unlike when my sister and I were in high school we decided we were going to try and pick cotton to make some extra money and to see if we could actually pick cotton like our grandmother did. We went to the cotton patch with a friend. There we were in shorts, tank tops ready to put in a hard day’s work and everyone else had on big hats and long sleeve shirts. — WELL, our cotton picking days were short lived, we were fired by lunch time. We quickly found out there were no fun and games going on in the cotton patch.
I would say my grandmother had a very good life in the time she and my grandfather were married. Our family lived next door to our grandparents all of our lives and my twin sister and I spent every Saturday night with them. They took us to Florida every summer from the time we were three years old and I remember staying at the same beach house every year. It had a screened in porch with an old wooden ice box. As we got older we liked going to this little store that the owners of the house and motel owned to check out their two cute Cuban sons who worked there. We thought of any excuse to go to the corner drugstore to see them!
Our grandmother did everything for us. I guess you could say we were spoiled — BUT — far from rotten. She use to make this cake for us for breakfast and I still make this cake from time to and will always think of her when I make this recipe. It’s another great recipe for the freezer and it’s good anytime, not just for breakfast. My grandmother is still living in her own house and still cooks up her pot of chili when she knows we are coming for a visit.
I hope this will become one of your family favorites.
Ingredients for this wonderful little coffee cake.
Topping ingredients get crumbled together, add pecans and set aside.
Creaming all the ingredients together before adding the dry ingredients and the milk.
Smooth batter in your prepared pan.
Add your topping to top of cake and using your fingers or a knife, poke some holes in cake forcing some of the topping down in the cake.
Right out of the oven. Makes me want to pour a glass of milk and sit down and have a big piece.
Butter Scrumptious Coffee Cake
Ingredients
- Topping:
- 1/4 c. butter
- 1/2 c. flour
- 1/2 c. brown sugar
- 1 c. chopped pecans
- Cake:
- 2 c. flour
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 stick butter
- 1/2 c. milk
- 8 oz. cream cheese
- 1 1/4 c. sugar
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
Instructions
- For the topping, cut the 1/4 cup butter into the flour and brown sugar until you have small pea size mixture. Add in the chopped pecans.
- For cake. Put the butter and cream cheese in bowl of electric mixer and beat to combine. Slowly add in the 1 1/4 cup sugar and then the eggs. Beat until well blended. Add in the vanilla extract and all the dry ingredients alternately with the 1/2 cup of milk. Blend well.
- Pour the batter into a greased and floured 13 x 9" pan. Sprinkle with the prepared topping and bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes or toothpick inserted in center comes out clan.
Recipe Notes
Enjoy and when I do, I always will think of my grandmother.
7 Comments
momgateway
March 18, 2010 at 6:18 pmthat looks so scrumptious. I’m definitely trying this!
Ruby
March 19, 2010 at 7:49 amThanks for sharing the recipe and the story behind it! My favourite recipes from my grandmother are Sherry Trifle and Homemade Kahlua (no, she’s not an alcoholic!) – you’ve inspired me to write them up and post them on my blog. Three cheers for grandmothers!
myfrenchkitchen
March 25, 2010 at 4:39 amThis coffee cake looks delicious…happy cruising in the fall1
Ronelle
peyling
March 31, 2010 at 3:56 pmHi Sherri,
I followed the instruction until the last part when I have to grease the pan and realized that the instruction left out the eggs and vanilla extract, so I wondered when is the best time to put into the mixing bowl? After the cream cheese and butter are blended, and before added the sugar? Or after the dry ingredients and milk? Please advise, thanks for sharing this great recipe, my oven is baking this scrumptious cake and the delicious aroma is filling the kitchen right now.
Sherry
March 31, 2010 at 7:13 pmSorry about that. You add the eggs and vanilla after the cream cheese, butter and sugar have blend beaten. Hope it turned out.
peyling
April 6, 2010 at 6:57 pmNo worries, thanks for getting back. It turned out great and tasty. I am your big fan now. Will try all the recipes in this blog, thanks for sharing and love it.
nancy
December 19, 2012 at 4:09 pmOMG! I have been looking for this recipe for years. My Mom used to make this and it was a favorite of our entire family. Sad to say that by the time I remembered it from my youth, and sought the recipe, Mom had come down with Altzheimers and my sister and I could never figure it out. Now with your help, I will make a new attempt this Christmas in honor of my Mom and your Grandmother. Thanks again. Here is to family…the very best gift God gives us!