Make-Ahead Coffee Cake Mix

Name: Make-Ahead Coffee Cake Mix
Yield: Serves 16 (Makes enough mix for two 9-inch cakes)
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1/3 cup packed (2⅓ ounces), brown sugar; 1/3 cup (2⅓ ounces), granulated sugar; 1/3 cup (1⅔ ounces), all-purpose flour; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces and chilled; 1 tablespoon, ground cinnamon; 1 cup, walnuts, pecans, or almonds, chopped; 3 cups (15 ounces), all-purpose flour; 1 cup packed (7 ounces), brown sugar; 1 cup (7 ounces), granulated sugar; 1/2 cup (2 1/2 ounces), buttermilk powder; 2 teaspoons, baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon, baking soda; 1 teaspoon, ground cinnamon; 1/4 teaspoon, salt; 12 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces and chilled

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Appears in Cook's Country August/September 2012

Desserts or Baked Goods

American

Breakfast & Brunch

Wouldn’t it be great to have homemade coffee cake at a moment’s notice? But making our own mix turned out to be a bit of a puzzle.

SERVES16 (Makes enough mix for two 9-inch cakes)

TIME10 minutes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For homemade coffee cake with the ease of a boxed mix, the freezer was key. Along with flour, sugar, spices, and leavener, we found that buttermilk powder in our cake mix was an ideal “dry” replacement for the sour cream in our favorite cof...

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