April 7 is National Coffee Cake Day! In honor of this sweet food holiday, let me tell you a story.
This past summer I got married, and all of our good friends stayed at a lodge for the wedding weekend. One of my husband's high school buddies whom I'd never met before that weekend -- let's call him Alan -- turned out to be a walking liability. He had been pulling insane stunts all weekend. (Some tamer examples included: breaking into the lodge's kitchen late at night, putting a log of cookie dough into the oven and then falling asleep, nearly burning down the lodge; giving his angry girlfriend the groom's cellphone number when his died, which she proceeded to use by sending nasty, threatening text messages throughout the wedding day; hitting on the female hotel clerk by telling her he wanted to play with her "funbags" while his angry girlfriend was still on the phone -- unbeknownst to him.) Now you have context.
The lodge offered guests complimentary breakfast, with fresh pastries, fruit, cereal and lovely eats like that. As the kitchen staff was still scraping the burnt cookie dough out of the oven from the night before, Alan strolled down to the breakfast spread and scanned the selections. He eyed a freshly made coffee cake overflowing with that signature crumbly topping. He took a big plate and a knife, and proceeded to horizontally slice off the entire top of the cake, putting it on his plate. He beheaded the coffee cake. It was not for laughs -- it was just for the crumbs. A staff member came out to refill the juice, noticed the violated coffee cake, sighed -- defeated -- and took it back into the kitchen to replace it.
Are you a coffee cake fan? Are you just about the cake-top or a full cake-body lover?