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This extremely moist and utterly delicious cake is the perfect thing to serve when trying to decide what to make for Christmas meals. Cut a slice, serve with a cup of coffee and just relax - it's amazing.

ingredients:

	Streusel
	½ cup brown sugar
	1 tablespoon cinnamon
	½ cup finely chopped walnuts
	Cake
	1 cup butter, at room temperature
	1 cup granulated sugar
	2 eggs, slightly beaten
	1 teaspoon vanilla
	1 teaspoon butterscotch extract
	1 cup plain yogurt
	1 teaspoon baking soda
	1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
	¾ cup whole wheat flour
	1 teaspoon baking powder
	½ teaspoon salt
	Confectioner's sugar for sprinkling on top

directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 F and butter and flour a 7 or 9 inch bundt pan.

2. Make streusel: combine brown sugar, cinnamon and nuts. Set aside.

3. In a the bowl of a mixer, cream butter then add sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Add eggs slowly, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla and butterscotch extracts.

4. In a separate bowl. combine yogurt and baking soda. In a third bowl. sift together flour, baking powder and salt.

5. Beat flour mixture into butter-egg mixture alternating with yogurt, starting and ending with dry ingredients. Spoon one third of batter into bundt pan.

6. Sprinkle 1/3 of streusel over batter. Cover with another 1/3 of batter and sprinkle another 1/3 of streusel over that. Cover with remaining batter and sprinkle with remaining streusel.

7. Bake for 40 or 50 minutes in preheated oven or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Cool in pan. Turn out onto a serving platter and sift confectioner's sugar over the top.

recipe origin: Based on a recipe from Food & Drink magazine, Holiday 2004

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