"night Before Christmas" Coffee Cake

Total Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup butter
• 2 beaten eggs
• 1/2 cup warm milk
• 2 teaspoons bulk yeast, dissolved in 3 tbsp. warm water
• 3 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon
• 4 tablespoons melted butter
• 1/2 cup nuts
• 1/2 cup maraschino cherry, candied red and greeen cherries

Recipe

• 1 cream together sugar and butter. then add eggs, milk, yeast (dissolved in 3 tablespoons warm water), flour, salt and vanilla. beat all of these ingredients together. then set dough aside and let it rise, until double in size.
• 2 when your coffee cake dough has risen to double the size (this may take about 2 hours) put it in a 9x13-inch greased pan and spread wirh topping;.
• 3 combine sugar, cinnamon, melted butter, nuts and cherries. now place in a cold oven and leave it in there overnight to rise.
• 4 the next morning turn oven to 350f and bake for 1/2 hour. take out and serve warm.
• 5 this makes a large coffee cake or you can put the dough in two round pans instead.