Gluten Free Streusel Coffee Cake

Breakfast food is divine. The warm, cinnamon-laced crumbs of a coffee cake, perfect with milk. The sun was shining this morning, and I need a way to get the boy to have a good day (as if that was controlled by baked goods, right? :) He's been a little under the weather, and had a hard workout with not much sleep yesterday. I figured something like this could do the trick.

This coffee cake was inspired by Carol Fenster's Overnight Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake from her book Gluten Free Quick and Easy. This version is higher in protein and fiber, since it contains quinoa flour.


Gluten Free Streusel Coffee Cake

Cake:
1/3 cup canola oil
2 eggs
3/4 soured milk*
1 teaspoon vanilla
2/3 cup quinoa flour
2/3 cup tapioca starch
1/3 cup sorghum flour
1/3 cup sweet rice flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon xanthan gum
1/2 teaspoon sea salt

*To make soured milk, put 1 tablespoon vinegar or lemon juice into a measuring cup. Fill with milk. Leave for 5-10 minutes, until curdled.

Topping:
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup gluten free oats
1/2 cup chopped almonds or walnuts
3 tablespoons sorghum flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 tablespoon butter or shortening, softened but not melted
(We ended up way short on topping, so the instructions above should be enough topping to actually, well, cover the top.)

Combine topping ingredients into a bowl, using your fingers to smoosh the butter and mix the ingredients together to form crumbs. In a medium bowl, combine flours, sugars, baking powder, baking soda, xanthan gum and salt. Whisk until completely combined. In another bowl, combine oil, eggs, soured milk, vanilla. Add in flour and sugar mixture and still until combined. Grease an 8 x 8 pan, or a 7 x 10.5 pan like I used (from Ikea). Pour in batter, and top with streusel topping. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes. Enjoy warm.

Stay tuned for the pumped-up version next weekend - we'll be taking it up a notch, now that we've seen how this one works.