National Coffee Cake Day
National Coffee Cake Day is celebrated annually on April 7th, it celebrates the delicious treat, which is a single-layer cake often flavored with cinnamon or other spices, seeds, nuts, or fruits, and typically topped with a crumb topping or glaze.
You can celebrate by baking your own coffee cake, enjoying one from a bakery, sharing it with friends and family, or doing a coffee cake geocache puzzle.
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Coffee Cake Recipe
Ingredients
For the Cake:
1 1/2 stick butter, softened
2 cups sugar
3 cups flour, sifted
4 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 1/4 cups whole milk
3 whole egg whites, beaten until stiff
For the Topping:
1 1/2 stick butter, softened
3/4 cup flour
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
2 Tbsp. cinnamon
1 1/2 cups pecans, chopped
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Beat egg whites and set aside.
Cream butter and sugar. Add flour mixture and milk alternately until combined. Don't overbeat. Fold in beaten egg whites with a rubber spatula. Spread in a well-greased 9 x 13 (or LARGER!) baking pan. A cake pan with higher sides would be best.
In a separate bowl, combine topping ingredients with a pastry cutter until crumbly. Sprinkle all over the top.
Bake for 40 to 45 minutes, or until no longer jiggly. Serve warm
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The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates. Solve the puzzle below and enter your answer in Certitude to updated the final coordinates and get a hint.
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N 40° AB.CDE W 105° FG.HJK
A = Number of Cups of Sifted Flour needed.
B = Number of teaspoons of Salt needed.
C = The day in April that National Coffee Cake Day is celebrated.
D = Number of Tablespoons of Cinnamon needed.
E = Number of cups of Chocolate Chips in this recipe.
F = Number of egg Yolks in this recipe.
G = Half of the only number in the GC Code for this cache.
H = Total number of sticks of butter needed for 2 cakes.
J = Number of teaspoons of baking powder needed.
K = Number of whole egg whites needed.
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