Recipe for cooking cocoa ripple coffee cake

Breakfast Recipes :: Coffeecakes

Cocoa Ripple Coffee Cake

Posted by Cookin\Mom at recipegoldmine.com

Serve this cake for morning coffee with a special beverage: Stir 1 Tbsp. chocolate-flavor syrup into each c. of coffee. Top with whipped cream and a dash of ground cardamom or nutmeg.

1/2 c. butter or margarine
3/4 c. sugar
2 tea. baking powder
1/2 tea. salt
2 eggs
1 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
2/3 c. milk
1/3 c. packed brown sugar
1/3 c. chopped walnuts
2 Tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder

Beat butter or margarine in a medium mixing bowl with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add sugar, baking powder, and salt; beat till combined. Beat in eggs. Add flour and milk alternately to sugar mixture, beating till smooth after each addition.

Spoon one-third of batter into a greased and floured 6-c. fluted tube pan or ring mold.

Combine brown sugar, walnuts, and cocoa powder. Sprinkle half of cocoa mixture over batter.

Repeat adding layers to pan, ending with batter.

Bake in a 350 degree F oven for 25 to 30 min. or till top springs back when lightly touched.

Cool coffee cake in pan for 5 min.. Turn out onto serving plate. Serve warm. Makes approximately 12 servings