Christmas Coffee Cake by SaraLittle

This can be assembled the night before, covered with foil and baked in the morning.

Ingredients:

For Cake:
3 c. all purpose flour, sifted
3 t. baking powder
1 t. salt
1 c. shortening
1 c. sugar
2 eggs
1 c. milk
1 t. vanilla

1 c. light brown sugar, packed
3 T. flour
2-3 T. ground cinnamon

1/2 c. melted butter (I'm not sure about this quantity)
1 c. raisins, rinsed in hot water
1 c. chopped walnuts

Instructions:

Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Add sugar to shortening, add eggs, beating each in. Stir vanilla into milk. Add milk mixture to flour alternately with the shortening mixture. Combine brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon.

Add half of batter into a greased 13x10 pan. Add half of the brown sugar mix. Add all raisins and walnuts. Drizzle half of the melted butter. Add remaining batter. Add remainder of brown sugar mix. Drizzle remainder of butter.

Bake at 350 for 50 minutes.

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-- RickMach - 04 Mar 2005