Tomorrow I will be chronicling the steps
required to make a Streusel Coffee Cake recipe from Martha Stewart Living. This is a great way to follow along with a
recipe because you’ll be able to see all the steps and hear about all the tools and techniques you’ll need
– just like on a cooking show, but without commercials! And like televised cooking shows, there is no pressure to
make the food to be able to enjoy the process. I'll document everything with photos.
Of course, you can’t “cook along” with something you don’t know the ingredients for. Here is a list of everything you’ll need to make the cake, with a few notes of my own. I am using less cardamom than the original recipe because I am a huge cinnamon fan and a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to streusel coffee cake. I did use a bit, but feel free to substitute cinnamon for all of the cardamom. If you don't have yogurt, you can substitute buttermilk.
Streusel Coffee Cake ingredients
For the Streusel:
2 ¾ cups all purpose flour
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp cardamom
(or additional cinnamon)
1 cup brown sugar
½ tsp salt
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
For the Cake:
2 ½ cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp
baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp salt
¾ cup unsalted butter, very soft
1 ¼
cups sugar
3 eggs
1 ¼ cups plain, low-fat yogurt (or buttermilk)
1 tsp vanilla
The complete recipe can be found here, but I will describe all the steps tomorrow as I make the cake. Stay tuned!
[Photo by Nicole Weston]
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