LAUSD Coffee Cake Recipe
jeffraben.com/recipes · No. 443
The official recipe for LAUSD coffee cake, baked in school kitchens since 1954.
Ingredients
Method
- Combine first six ingredients. Mix until crumbly. Reserve 1/2 cup of the above for topping. To this, add the cinnamon.
- Combine last four ingredients and add to first mixture. Blend together but do not overmix.
- Put in a greased nine-by-13-inch cake pan. Sprinkle the cinnamon crumb topping over the batter. Bake at 350 to 375 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes.
A few ingredients on the original recipe card might seem a bit dated. According to cook Barbara Grinage, host of the YouTube series The Bare Pantry Show, "baker's flour" is what we now call "bread flour," the unspecified brown sugar is probably dark brown sugar, and the "salad oil" is canola.