Breakfast Cake

Since Leslie posted about Pea Soup, I thought I'd post about our family's favorite breakfast. (Trying to broaden my posts a bit...) This is by far my boys, age 9 and 3, most requested meal.

Growing up our mom made this cake a lot, also. It was originally called Coffee Cake, but since we aren't coffee drinkers, we just call it Breakfast Cake. I had to call mom to see where the recipe came from and she said her mom used to make it for her, also. She wasn't sure where Grandma got it...Maybe I'll have to call her, too.

I'm sure there are lots of great recipes out there for this same type of thing, but this is ours, tried and true! And we LOVE it!

FOR THE CAKE
Mix together:

1 cup Flour
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/3 cup Milk
1/3 cup Sugar
1 Egg
1/4 cup Melted Butter

Spread in round cake pan or 9 x 9 pan. Set aside.


FOR THE TOPPING
Mix together:

1/2 cup Flour
1/2 cup Brown Sugar
1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon

Then add:
2 Tablespoons Melted Butter
and mix all topping ingredients together. Should clump together a little bit. Pour mixed topping on top of cake.

Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.
(If your oven stinks like mine, it will take longer to cook, but when you have a good oven, it will be perfect at 20 minutes!)

We always make scrambled eggs to go along with this. Together it is a good mix of sweet and salty. Yummy!