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" When I woke up this morning and found that this coffee cake was all gone, I was sad. This has been a perfect mid-morning treat, with my first cup of coffee, for several days in a row. It&amp;#039;s surprising, really, because the first time I read through the recipe, from Sunset magazine, I was skeptical. When I saw that the streusel topping had sunk into the cake, I thought it was ruined. But look at it! Pockets of streusel throughout just means there&amp;#039;s not one single boring bite.   As I mentioned above, the technique for this seemed a bit unusual to me. First I mixed a base: 1 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup granulated sugar, 2 cups flour and 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg. Mixed that together, then this is the weird part: I added 2/3 cup melted butter. Mixed thoroughly, then put 1 cup of the mixture in a smaller bowl to make the streusel.   To the small bowl, I added 1/2 cup chopped walnuts and 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon. To the large bowl, I added 1 egg, 1 cup buttermilk, 2 teaspoons baking powder and 1 teaspoon baking soda. This batter remained a little bit lumpy because when the flour-sugar mixture is mixed with the melted butter, it created clumps. I didn&amp;#039;t worry too much about the lumps, though; I figured they&amp;#039;d taste good, and I was right!   I poured the batter from the big bowl into a 9-inch springform pan sprayed with nonstick spray, then sprinkled the streusel mixture from the small bowl on top. I baked at 350F for 40 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center had no batter attached. Let cool in the pan, then cut into wedges to serve.  Three out of 4 members of my family loved this (the fourth will not eat walnuts, or any nuts, really, in cake). It was gone before we knew it. The technique was a bit weird, but it worked and was pretty easy.  Love that crumbly topping? Try one of these:  8 Splendid Streusel Recipes "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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