Apple Struesel Coffee Cake

dry:
3 cups flour
3 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
creamed:
1 stick Butter/margarine softened (1/4 lb. or 1/2 cup)
1-1/2  cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla

2 cup milk

put all dry ingredients in a bowl and blend together with a fork, in a separate bowl whip together butter & sugar add eggs beat until creamy.
alternately add to creamed butter mixture 1/3 of the flour then 1/3 of the milk beat until all is blended.
(about 4 minutes). pour batter in 9 x 13 pan and (glass or what ever kind of pan you have) set aside.

apples:
2 large or 3 small apples (peeled cored & sliced thin)
lay them all over the top of the cake batter.

Struesel:
1/3 cup brown sugar (if I am out of Brown sugar I'll use white)
1/3 cup flour
4 tablespoon cold butter
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon (optional)
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

put all ingredients in a bowl (or if you have a small processor pulse 7-8 times) and with a fork blend together until mixture is crumbly. spread struesel all over the top of cake batter.

bake in a 350 f (175 Cel) oven for 45 minutes to 55 minutes, make sure to test with a toothpick when the toothpick comes out clean. you don't have to take it our of the pan if you don't want to. cool for 15 to 20 minutes before eating..it's great warm with Ice cream..enjoy!

Orange glaze (optional)

1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon orange peel
juice of 1/2 orange

beat all ingredients in a small bowl and beat together until smooth, cool cake for 15 minutes and then drizzle glaze all over.


* you don't have to put the glaze on because the cake is sweet enough but sometimes I like the taste of the orange glaze.