Candie's Bakery-style Crumb Coffee Cake

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 3 3/4 cups flour
• 1 3/4 cups sugar
• 1/4 lb butter (softened)
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 1/2-2/3 cup milk
• 1/4 lb butter
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1 pinch salt
• confectioners' sugar (for dusting)

Recipe

• 1 mix together in a large bowl flour, sugar, baking powder, salt; and set aside 2 cups of this mixture for the topping.
• 2 add butter, eggs and milk and mix well.
• 3 grease and flour a 13-inch rectangle baking pan.
• 4 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 5 for topping: take the 2 cups of reserved flour mixture and add to the butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt.
• 6 mix together with your fingers until blended and lumps begin to form when you squeeze the mixture making small pea-sized crumbs.
• 7 (make them to your liking).
• 8 we love huge crumbs on ours, so i squeeze handfuls of the mixture and let the big pieces drop off onto the cake batter and cover the surface with smaller ones as i empty the bowl.
• 9 cover the entire cake with crumbly mixture.
• 10 bake for 30 minutes.
• 11 when cooled, dust with confectioner's sugar.