Dutch Oven: Coffee Cake
Items Needed:
| 3-3/4 cups | flour (2-1/4 cups for cake and 1/2 cup for the topping) |
| 1-1/2 cups | brown sugar (1 cup for cake and 1/2 cup for the topping) |
| 3/4 cups | sugar |
| 1 cup | milk |
| 1 | egg |
| 1/2 cup | cooking oil |
| 1/3 stick | margarine (for the topping) |
| 1/4 tsp | salt |
| 1 tsp | baking powder |
| 1 Tbsp | cinnamon |
| blueberries, cranberries, nuts, etc. (optional) | |
| 12" | Dutch Oven (serves 8-10) |
| 24 | briquettes (6 bottom/18 top) |
| cook for 30-35 minutes | |
| 2 mixing bowls, and small sauce pan (something to melt butter in) also needed | |
. For the cake:
- combine 2-1/4 cups flour with salt, baking powder, and cinnamon in first mixing bowl.
Remember to save 1/2 cup of flour for the topping. - Add 1 cup brown and 1/2 cup white sugar and mix well.
Remember to save 1/2 cup of brown sugar for the topping. - Add oil, egg, and milk to dry ingredients in mixing bowl. Mix well.
For the topping:
- melt butter in sauce pan, then add to 1/2 cup flour and 1/2 cup brown sugar in second mixing bowl. Mix well.
- Grease oven with cooking oil and place on top of 6 hot briquettes.
- Pour batter into oven. If adding berries or nuts (optional), mix in no more than 1/2 cup berries and/or 1/2 cup nuts.
- Pour topping evenly onto the layer of batter. Do not mix in the topping with the batter.
- Place lid on oven, put 18 hot briquettes on top of lid, and bake.