French coffeecake
12 Servings
Ingredients
Quantity | Ingredient | |
---|---|---|
½ | cup | Butter or margarine |
1 | cup | Sugar |
3 | Eggs | |
3 | cups | Flour |
3 | teaspoons | Baking powder |
½ | teaspoon | Baking soda |
½ | teaspoon | Salt |
1 | cup | Milk |
Filling/topping: | ||
¼ | cup | Baking cocoa |
¼ | cup | Sugar |
¼ | cup | Chopped walnuts or hazelnuts |
Directions
Beat butter with sugar until very light and fluffy. Blend in eggs one at a time. Sift dry ingrdients. add dry ingredients alternately with milk into creamed mixture. Turn batter into a greased and floured 9 inch tube or angel pan. Sprinkle with the topping or if desired add ½ batter/ ½ topping and repeat and swirl cocoa mixture into batter with knife. Bake 350 for 45 minutes to 1 hour or tested done.
remove cake after 15 minutes to cool completely. Cake freeezes well.
wonderfully light and tasty.