Still trying to re-create Grandma's coffee cake

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For the streusel topping:
1/4 c. (2 oz) brown sugar
1/4 c. (1 oz and a tiny pinch) flour
1/8  c. (2 Tbl or 1/4 stick) cold butter, in pieces
1/8  tsp baking  powder
1 tsp cinnamon

Combine all ingredients in a bowl. Mash together with a fork to create a medley of uneven crumbs.

For the cake:
4 Tbl (1/2 cube) butter, melted
1 egg (beaten)
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 cup (4 1/4 oz) sifted flour
1/2 c (3 3/4 oz) sugar
3 tsp (1 Tbl) baking powder
1/2 tesp salt

Butter a 8 or 9 inch baking pan. Preheat oven to 375F.
Melt butter, cool slightly and mix with egg and milk.  Whisk dry ingredients together. Pour liquid ingredients into dry ingredients and stir only long enough to smooth out lumps. Quickly pour batter into greased baking pan and sprinkle streusel over unbaked cake. Try to get the larges pieces and the small pieces evenly distributed, but time is not on your side.
Bake 14-16 minutes in 375F oven.

For the next version, I might add a little vanilla or cinnamon to the cake batter.

 

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This morning I made a 1/2 batch of cake and baked it as four cupcakes. It worked well, although I underestimated how much they would puff up, I should have made 6 instead of 4. Even with what seemed to be over-much of the streusel, after baking there were white spots on the tops.
Paper cups are a necessity, as well as being prepared to clean the pan of the not-quite caramel left in the bottom of every cup.
Baked 12 minutes @375F