Last week, our Cooking Live series focused on a savory
stew. This week, I'm turning over to the sweet side with a classic breakfast favorite: coffee cake. If you're not
familiar with coffee cake, it gets its name because it is designed to be served with coffee or tea, as part of a
mid-morning or mid-afternoon meal, not for dessert. This coffee cake is a Martha Stewart Living recipe that is brimming with streusel. In fact, it has
more streusel than batter, though the batter expands to a respectable amount once the cake has baked.
The recipe that inspired this "episode" is Cardamom Streusel Coffee Cake, which won me over with its delicious appearance. It also gives me a good opportunity to take my own Martha Challenge, and see if I have better luck with her (and her publication's) recipes than some others have. I guarantee that a few liberties will be taken with this recipe, so stay tuned for the ingredients and my version of the recipe later in the week, with a full series of posts detailing the method, mixing, baking and eating of the cake on Friday.
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