This article explores the nostalgia surrounding a classic school lunch coffee cake and debates whether it's worth recreating at home. It delves into the history of the recipe, its evolution over time to meet school lunch standards, and the enduring appeal of this simple treat.
At my school growing up in Michigan, I don’t even remember the dessert options. Sometimes there was a cobbler thing. There were also Hostess snacks — Ding-Dongs, Twinkies, that kind of stuff.
But here’s the question: Is it worth making at home? Is this indelible culinary experience so tied to a person’s childhood that it should be considered forbidden as a personal endeavor?We bring important personal history to this experiment: Adriana first sampled the coffee cake in question when she worked as an assistant for an LAUSD middle school summer program. In the spirit of every online food blog, here’s a lot of context you didn’t ask for before we actually talk about the dish. The short version: There are competing versions of the original recipe, neither of which you would find in a school in 2023.(The recipes look a little different, but a clever baker will notice the sneaky similarities: One recipe uses milk powder and an oil/vinegar solution — in other words, deconstructed buttermilk. The other main difference is the final amount of cake you end up with.) Over several decades, the original coffee cake recipe (or at least, as approximate an original recipe as we can find) has undergone several changes, in time with school lunch standards. For example: The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2012 pressed schools to offer more fruits and vegetables and whole grains, and research showedWhat does that mean for our coffee cake? Gone are the trans fats. Whole grains have taken over for a chunk of the all-purpose flour. Sugar … well, it’s still not sugar free. But the current version certainly has fewer calories.“Some people come and say I want all the fat,” Singh said. “And I'm like, OK, but we've had to make changes.”“Last year, we were doing our employee appreciation month downtown in Beaudry ,” Singh said. “They said, 'Can we get the coffee cake?' And I said, 'Sure.' We had to bring it on two occasions and we ran out both time
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