Bradley Ogden's Coffee Cake

Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
1 T plus 1/8 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
1/2 cup melted butter
2/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Butter a 9-inch x 13-inch baking pan.

Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together into a medium bowl.

In another medium bowl, add the eggs and sugar and beat by hand until they are a pale hue. Then add the melted butter, milk and vanilla extract to the beaten eggs and sugar.

Add the wet mixture to the dry mixture and whisk together until thoroughly mixed.

Pour the batter into the prepared baking pan and bake in the center of the oven for 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.

Before cooling on a wire rack for at least 30 minutes, drizzle the streusel topping atop the cake so that it melts into the cake.

Serve with a scoop of coffee ice cream (Starbucks Java Chip) and an Amaretto reduction (with sugar and star anise) gastrique.

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Streusel Topping
1 1/4 cups brown sugar
2/3 cup all-purpose flour
2/3 cup butter (room temperature)
2 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

Mix all ingredients together until the mixture is the consistency of dry
sand.

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