Sophie's Coffee Cake

 Sophie’s coffee cafe

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoon baking powder

½ cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar

1 teaspoon salt

1 egg, beaten

¾ cup milk

½ cup butter or margarine melted

1 ½ teaspoon all-purpose flour 

¼ cup firmly packed brown sugar

1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon

1 ½ tablespoons butter or margarine, softened

3 tablespoons chopped pecans

Combine 2 cups flour, baking powder, ½ cup plus 1 tablespoons sugar, and salt; stir well. Add egg, milk, and melted butter; beat at medium speed of electric mixer 2 minutes. Pour batter into a greased 9 inch pie plate, and set aside.

Combine 1 ½ teaspoons flour, brown sugar, and cinnamon; stir well. Cut in butter with a pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse meal. Stir in pecans. Sprinkle mixture over batter on a pie plate. Bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. 

Yield: 1 9 inch coffee cake