Apple Strudel Coffee Cake

Sounds fancy, doesn't it?

If someone asks you to bring a dish to a brunch and you say "Apple Strudel Coffee Cake", it would sound impressive.  You would probably receive an "oohh". Little do they know, it is a simple dish.  It bakes easily.  You can whip it together in a short time.  It tastes great.  (You can keep all those facts a secret.  Well, except the tastes great part.  That will be known as soon as someone tastes it.)

I made this one night on a whim.  We were going to have breakfast for supper and I wanted an extra special dish to go with it.  When I make something like this to go with supper, it confuses my husband.  Is it part of the meal?  Is it dessert?  I usually answer, whatever you want it to be.  The children usually vote to eat it with supper.  I tend to agree. ;-)

Apple Strudel Coffee Cake

2 cups flour (I use unbleached)

1 teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

½ cup butter (you can use applesauce)

¾ cup sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 apple, peeled and chopped

Heat oven to 375*.  Grease a 8x8 square pan.  In a large bowl, mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.  Add apples and toss lightly.  In a separate bowl, beat butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla until well blended.  Add wet ingredients to the flour mixture and mix carefully.  Spread into the greased pan.

Topping

½ cup brown sugar

1 T flour

¼ teaspoon cinnamon

1 T butter

Mix sugar, flour and cinnamon in small bowl.  Cut in butter.  Sprinkle over top of mixture.   Bake 35 minutes or until knife inserted into center comes out clean.