Gingerbread Coffee Cake

By jonil

The aroma that fills your kitchen when baking this coffee cake is heavenly!

Ingredients

• Topping:
• 1 cup water
• 1 cup molasses
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 2 eggs, well beaten
• 2 cups all purpose four
• 1 Tblsp baking powder
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp ginger
• 1/4 tsp cloves
• 1/3 cup all purpose flour
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp ginger
• 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
• 3 Tblsp butter
• Glaze:
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 1/2 Tbls milk
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350. Grease a 13"x9" baking pan. Bring water and molasses to a boil. Stir in baking soda. Let cool. Beat sugar, butter and eggs in a bowl. In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger and cloves. Beat flour alternately with molasses, half at a time, into butter mixture until well mixed. Pour into the prepared pan.

Make topping: Combine flour, sugar, cinnamon, ginger and walnuts in a bowl. Cut in butter with a pastry blender until mixture is coarsely crumbled. Sprinkle over gingerbread. Bake at 350 for 40 minutes.

Glaze: Whisk sugar, milk and vanilla in a small bowl until soft enough to drip from a spoon. If needed, add more milk. Drizzle over top of lukewarm cake.