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Cream Cheese Coffee Cake

Source of Recipe


From "Southern Living: Homestyle Cooking"



List of Ingredients



• ½ cup butter, softened
  
• 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
  
• 1½ cups sugar
  
• 2 large eggs
  
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
  
• 2 tsp baking powder
  
• ½ tsp baking soda
  
• ½ tsp salt
  
• ½ cup milk
  
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
  
• Topping
  






Instructions



1. Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy; gradually add sugar, beating well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition.
   
   
2. Combine flour, baking powder, soda, and salt; add to butter mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Mix at low speed just until blended after each addition. Stir in vanilla.
   
   
3. Pour batter into a greased 13- x 9-inch pan. Sprinkle with Topping. Bake at 350° F for 40 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack.
   
   Makes 12 servings.
   
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   TOPPING
   
   • ½ cup all-purpose flour
   • ½ cup firmly packed light brown sugar
   • ½ cup chopped pecans
   • ¼ cup butter, melted
   
   Combine all ingredients. (Yield: 1½ cups).
   
   
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   L.A.C.E. (Ladies Aspiring to Christian Excellence) of First Church of the Nazarene
   Longview, Texas