Graham Toffee Coffee Cake

A basic coffee cake that you can tailor to your needs.

Ingredients:

Batter:

3 Eggs

1 1/2 cups of Sugar

1/4 cup of Vegetable Oil

1 cup of Water

2 cups of Flour

3 1/2 tsp of Baking Powder

1 tsp of Salt

Crumb Mix:

1 cup of Graham Cracker Crumbs

1/2 cup of Brown Sugar

1 tsp Cinnamon

1/2 cup melted Butter

1/2 cup of Skor bits

1/2 cup of Chocolate chips

Directions:

Preheat your oven to 350F.

Beat together the eggs, sugar and oil until light and fluffy.  When well mixed add in the water.  In a seperate bowl combine the flour, baking powder and salt.  Add that to the wet ingredients and mix well.

Combine the first four ingrediants for the crumb mix in a seperate bowl.

Line a 9x9 pan with parchment paper or (if your adventurous)  use a greased 10" spring-form pan.
  Pour half the batter into the pan.  Sprinkle in half the crumb mix, all the Skor bits & chocolate chips.  Pour in the other half of the batter and then top with the rest of the crumb mix.

Bake for 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.

The Twist:

This is really a coffee cake that you can do anything with.  You can replace the Skor bits and chocolate chips or add more.  Feel like some fruit?  Go ahead, a half cup of any chopped fruit works well though I recommend you put it on top.  How about nuts?  Sure no problem.  Another fun addition is to take caramel or chocolate ice cream topping and make a lattice across the top of the cake once it's cooled.  Replace the vegetable oil with peanut oil for a little flavour boost.  Of course if you do that remember to tell anyone you share with, it's embarrassing to accidentally poison someone.  This recipe is ripe for experimentation: what will you try?