I take your basic white cake recipe w/ 2 C flour and turn it into a coffee cake.
Just need to take some butter, sugar or brown sugar, a little molasses and fair amount of cinnamon, maybe a little nutmeg, get it heated nicely, then add flour until it looks nice an crummy.
Put your batter in your pan, sprinkle around 1/2 the crumbs.
Just put apple and/or pear slices on top.
Then sprinkle the rest of the crumbs. Bake normally.
It’s SO nice to have coffee cake that you know is made from normal ingredients instead of industrial cr@p.
Of course, you can use other fruits to top it as well. Peaches/nectarines are nice.
You can put some crushed nuts and/or dried fruits in the cake batter as well, of course.
Is this the ‘burnt sugar’ cake?