Apple Cinnamon Coffee Cake

Art by Susan Rios

INGREDIENTS

• 1 1/3 cups all purpose flour
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/4 cup butter or margarine
• 1 egg
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 cooking apples, peeled and sliced

DIRECTIONS

Put flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in large bowl.
Cut in or rub in butter until crumbly.  Make a well in center.

In another bowl, beat the egg until frothy.

Mix in milk and vanilla then pour into well. Stir just enough to moisten.
Pour into greased 8 X 8 cake pan. Push apples well into batter close together.

TOPPING

1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Mix brown sugar and cinnamon together and sprinkle over top.
Bake in 350 deg. F oven for 50-60 min. until it begins to shrink from edge of pan. Serves 9.