DAY 45 RECIPE: CHOCOLATEY STREUSEL COFFEE CAKE

Oh lord! What a crazy day! My kids and I are leaving on Sunday to go to BC for 5 weeks, so needless to say, I have about a million things to get done before then. So I thought, since I have so much leftover spaghetti from last night, I would be lazy and just have leftovers and I would make a quick little coffee cake for dessert and for my blog recipe today.
WELL, I must say this fabulous quick little coffee cake recipe that I concocted did NOT make my life easier today! hahaha....It has been a little ridiculous. The batter for this cake is EXTREMELY thick, and I don't have a stand mixer, so my mixer was getting quite a work out. It had batter all the way up the beaters, and it flew EVERYWHERE! It also seems that I misjudged and used a mixing bowl that was just a bit too small. So again, batter EVERYWHERE! It was getting a little out of control and was kind of making me laugh, so I thought I should pull out my camera and take a photo of the disaster that was now adorning my outfit (and my entire kitchen).
I reached just above my workspace (where my camera regularily resides) and grabbed the camera. I am apparently a little clumsy today as well, for as I grabbed for the camera, I dropped a glass(which thankfully did not break) AND my camera INTO the cake batter!
Here is a photo I was intending to take when I dropped the camera into the batter...just a shot of some of the gong show my kitchen( and clothes) endured today!

I fished it out as quickly as possible and as I pulled it out all I could do was laugh. All you could see was about a half of a camera with a giant blob of SUPER thick cake batter attached to it. What a gong show! Thankfully I was able to clean it off and it still works. For now.
So it seems my lazy day has turned into about 100 times more work than I had anticipated. Foiled again!
On the good side of things, the cake has turned out to be quite amazingly delicious (even if it is a cake with no icing!). I hope you enjoy, and hopefully your attempts will be less disasterous!

DAY 45 RECIPE:

CHOCOLATEY STREUSEL COFFEE CAKE


INGREDIENTS:
CAKE:
1 Cup Butter
1 Cup White Sugar
1 Cup Brown Sugar
4 Eggs
2 Cups Sour Cream
1 Tsp Vanilla Extract
4 Cups Flour
2 Tsp Baking Soda
2 Tsp Baking Powder
1- 102g Pkg Instant Vanilla Pudding
½ Cup Chocolate chips, melted

STREUSEL:
2/3 Cup Flour
2/3 Cup Brown Sugar
¼ Cup Butter, cold
½ Cup Hazelnut Pieces
½ Cup Chocolate Chips

DIRECTIONS:


STREUSEL:
Mix together flour and brown sugar. Cut in butter until crumbly. Toss in chocolate chips and nuts. Set Aside.

CAKE:
Pre heat oven to 350 degrees. Generously grease and flour a 9” X13” Pan.
In a small bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Stir together, set aside.
In a large mixing bowl cream butter and sugars.
Add eggs, vanilla extract, sour cream, and vanilla pudding mix.
Beat all together until well blended.
Add flour in three parts, beating well after each addition.
Take 3 cups of batter and transfer to another bowl. Add melted chocolate chips to this batter and blend.
Now, drop big blobs of batter in an alternating pattern of your choice into the pan. Use about ½ of each kind of batter for this step.
Now sprinkle about ½ of the streusel mixture on top of the batter.
Using remaining batter, drop alternating blobs of batter on top of the streusel layer. Spread the blobs slightly so they are all touching.
Bake for 25 minutes.
Remove from oven and sprinkle the remaining streusel mixture on top of cake. Return to oven and continue to bake for another 40 minutes.