Streusel Cake

You're gonna need a huge class of milk/coffee after this one. It reminds me of coffee cake (in fact, I think it might be...) It's SO moist, sweet, and rich. You might be wondering why I put this in the breakfast section? Well, Cookie Crisp is a breakfast too.

1 1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup shortening
2 eggs
1 cup milk
3 cup flour
4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 tsp vanilla

Mix sugar, shortening and eggs until smooth. Stir in milk and vanilla. Stir dry ingredients together in separate bowl and add to sugar mixture. Mix well. Divide half the batter equally into 2 greased and floured 9" cake pans. Sprinkle with streusel topping (below) then spread remaining batter equally over both. Equally in each pan, again sprinkle with streusel topping. Bake at 375' for 25 minutes. Cool and serve with milk.

TOPPING:
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 TBSP flour
3 tsp cinnamon
3 TBSP melted butter
3/4 cup chopped pecans (or nut of choice)

Mix all together very well with a fork and sprinke as directed above.