This evening, I was attempting to make currant scones, but I wasn't paying enough attention to the recipe. I realized after it was too late that I had added 2 times as much milk as I needed, so the dough wasn't anywhere near firm enough to make into scones. What to do? I added another cup of flour, sprinkled some cinnamon sugar on top, and called it a coffee cake. I just snitched some, and it's not bad.
Niki's Mistake Coffee Cake
Ingredients:
3 c. flour
1/3 c. sugar
1 Tbsp. baking powder
6 Tbsp. butter
1/2 c. currants
1 egg
1 c. milk (I use skim)
cinnamon sugar for topping
Directions:
Preheat oven to 425. Mix first three ingredients in a medium bowl. Cut in butter until you have crumb to pea sized pieces. Stir in currants. Mix together milk and egg, and stir in quickly to dry ingredients. Press dough into 9 by 9 pan. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top. Bake for 25ish minutes until knife comes out clean. Cool.
Notes: raisins would work fine in place of the currants, you could add slightly more if you like, also a little more sugar in the dough (maybe a 1/2 c. instead) might be more your style.
