It's the last week of my cook book spotlight gig. The New Southwest is a book I'm happy to have perched on my overloaded book shelf beside Julia Child's Baking With Julia and Thomas Keller's Bouchon among many others.
For my final spotlight recipe I chose Meagan's Sonoran Honey Streusel Coffee Cake. My reason for choosing this was because I'm a big fan of honey, and although I couldn't get a hold of Sonoran honey Meagan recommends using any local honey. Their retail store is less than two miles from my house with beehives scattered all over California. I couldn't wait to see what it'd taste like in a coffee cake.
This coffee cake has a serious butter level and you can taste it. It's so moist with an awesome crunchy crust. The streusel topping creates these big nuggets of buttery brown sugar which get stuck in the middle of the I really wanted to try it as soon as it had cooled but had to wait another day to photograph it.
Darn, you cloudy light! One thing I'd mention is that I ended up cooking the coffee cake for about 55-60 minutes as opposed to the 45 minutes in the book. Everyone's oven can be slightly different so I use the touch test when I bake any kind of cake. By pressing down in the middle I look for the cake to spring back up or you could try the toothpick method too.I hope my recipes turned on your taste buds because Hippocrene has generously offered to give 14 copies of The New Southwest as giveaways!
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