Easy Coffee Cake

Ingredients

brown sugar 2cups

maida/ all purpose flour  2 cups

butter 3/4 cup

baking soda 1 tsp

hot coffee 1 cup ( Ised 2 tsp of instant coffee pdr for 1 cup)

egg 1

vanilla essence 2 tsp

Method

mix brown sugar, flour & butter well, may look lumpy, no problem. 

keep aside 1 cup of the flour mixture

dissolve baking soda in hot coffee & add to the flour mixture with egg & vanilla essence.

mix quickly, not over mix.

pre-heat oven to 180 deg/ C/ 320 gas mark.

pour batter on a greased dish/ tray, sprinkle the kept aside flour mixture on top.

bale for 30 min. at 180 deg. C, then reduce heat to 160 deg. C till baked. i.e., insert the knife in the middle of the cake, if it comes out clean, then it is done.

To be frank, never thought that it will come out well. It was very soft, with the flour mixture & sugar spread on top, gave it a bit of crunchy feeling ! But next time, if I bake it, then would prefer to press the flour & sugar mixture a bit down, so it may get little melted also.