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Buttermilk Spice Coffee Cake

This is SO GOOD! Be sure to read my notes at the bottom.

List of Ingredients

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 t. baking powder
1/2 t. baking soda
1/4 t. salt
1/2 t. ground cinnamon
1/4 t. ground nutmeg
1/8 t. ground allspice
1 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup butter -- melted
1 beaten large egg
1/2 t. pure vanilla extract

Brown Sugar Glaze:
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
2 T. butter
2 T. honey
2 T. milk
1/4 cup chopped walnuts


Recipe

Grease a 9x9x2 inch pan or 11.5x8x2 inch pan; set aside.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a large bowl, stir together flour, sugars, baking powder, soda, salt, and spices; set aside.

In another bowl, combine buttermilk, melted butter, egg, and vanilla.

Add buttermilk mixture to flour mixture, stirring until smooth.

Pour batter into prepared pan.

Bake about 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean.

In the meantime prepare glaze. In a small saucepan, combine all ingredients except walnuts. Bring to boiling; reduce heat. Simmer glaze, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in 1/4 cup chopped walnuts.

Pour glaze evenly over hot cake. Bake an additional 5 minutes.

Cool in pan on wire rack. Serve warm or at room temp.

Description:
"This coffee cake was so popular the day the Curtis and Schwartz Cafe opened in 1986 that it became the restaurant's signature pastry."
Recipe By :Curtis & Schwartz Cafe Cookbook
Source:
"BGH Hometown Cooking, Feb 2001, pg.12"

NOTES : I used unsalted butter and also increased vanilla to 1 t. This is definitely very good "as is", but I wouldn't hesitate to increase the cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice if you want to make it "spicier". You could also substitute mace for nutmeg. Also, next time I might try making the cake with 1/4 cup applesauce and 1/4 cup butter just to try and decrease the fat a bit. Or maybe even smashed banana.