Jeanie's Crumb Topped Coffee Cake

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 9
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2-2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons unsweetened baking cocoa
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 dash clove
• 1 cup buttermilk (i use powdered buttermilk)
• 1/2 cup raisins (i do not use)
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup pecans

Recipe

• 1 for the buttermilk, you can also place 1 tbs.
• 2 vinegar into a one cup measure.
• 3 add milk to the one cup line.
• 4 let mixture sit for 10- 15 minutes.
• 5 it will curdle, that's okay!
• 6 mix together flour and sugar.
• 7 cut butter into this, using pastry blender until butter is in small pea size pieces.
• 8 (i sometimes use a fork and knife to mix!).
• 9 reserve 1 cup of this flour mixture and set aside.
• 10 into remaining flour/ butter mixture, measure baking powder, soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.
• 11 mix well.
• 12 add buttermilk and mix well again.
• 13 batter will be thin, like water.
• 14 pour into greased, 9x9 baking pan.
• 15 sprinkle the reserved 1 cup flour/butter mixture on top.
• 16 sprinkle chocolate chips and pecans over all.
• 17 bake 350* for 30 minutes.