Swedish Coffee Cake

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1/4 lb butter, softened (1 stick)
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 egg yolks
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 dash salt
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 lemon, juice and zest of (my grandmother says to only squeeze the juice out of half a lemon and only use a few pinches of zest)
• 2 egg whites, stiffly beaten
• 1 cup flour
• 3/4 cup light brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/4 lb butter, softened (1 stick)

Recipe

• 1 cake:.
• 2 preheat oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit.
• 3 cream together butter and sugar, add egg yolks gradually.
• 4 sift the flour, baking powder and salt into the batter. stir.
• 5 add milk, vanilla, lemon juice and lemon rind. stir.
• 6 beat egg whites until stiff. fold into batter.
• 7 pour into 13x9 baking pan.
• 8 top with crumb topping and bake for 40 minutes or until tester comes out clean.
• 9 crumb topping:.
• 10 mix dry ingredients together.
• 11 cut in the butter with a pastry blender or the back of a fork until it resembles crumbs.
• 12 scatter crumbs over unbaked cake.