"night Before Christmas" Coffee Cake

This is a wonderful coffee cake to share with your friends and neighbors -

• Ready In: 30 mins
• Yields: 1 9x13 coffee cake

Ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup sugar
• 1⁄4 cup butter
• 2  beaten eggs
• 1⁄2 cup  warm milk
• 2  teaspoons  bulk  yeast, dissolved in 3 Tbsp. warm water
• 3  cups flour
• 1  teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla

• TOPPING

• 2⁄3 cup sugar
• 1  tablespoon cinnamon
• 4  tablespoons  melted butter
• 1⁄2 cup  nuts
• 1⁄2 cup maraschino cherry, candied red and greeen cherries

Directions

1. Cream together sugar and butter. Then add eggs, milk, yeast (dissolved in 3 tablespoons warm water), flour, salt and vanilla. Beat all of these ingredients together. Then set dough aside and let it rise, until double in size.
2. When your coffee cake dough has risen to double the size (this may take about 2 hours) put it in a 9x13-inch greased pan and spread wirh topping;.
3. Combine sugar, cinnamon, melted butter, nuts and cherries. Now place in a cold oven and leave it in there overnight to rise.
4. The next morning turn oven to 350F and bake for 1/2 hour. Take out and serve warm.
5. This makes a large coffee cake or you can put the dough in two round pans instead.