Ethan's night to cook

Each of my boys fixes dinner once a week.  I let them choose what to fix and they usually only make the main course so it is always good if the main course is a complete meal.  Coffee cake does not qualify as a complete meal so I added some fruit and a salad to go with it.  Here is the recipe he used:

Breakfast Cake

    cake: 

                                                             1/2 cup shortening or butter
                                                             2 1/2 cups flour
                                                             3/4 cup sugar
                                                             2 Tbsp. baking powder
                                                             pinch of salt
                                                             1 1/3 cups milk
                                                             2 eggs
Cut shortening into flour.  Add remaining dry ingredients and mix.  Add wet ingredients and mix by hand.  Pour into a greased 9x13" pan. 

topping:

                                                               1/2 cup flour
                                                               3/4 cup sugar 
                                                               4 1/2 Tbsp. butter, softened
                                                               1 teaspoon cinnamon

Sprinkle with topping.  Bake at 400 degrees for 20-25 minutes.

I think next time I would recommend using brown sugar in the topping and then layering half the batter, half the topping, rest of batter, and remaining topping.