Orange pecan coffee cake
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Since I moved my elderly, cognitively challenged, sugar seeking mother into my house I started looking for ways to sneak some extra nutrition into her diet. She is picky about anything that looks unfamiliar (which is more and more food these days) but will eat almost anything in the form of a sweet. So I came up with this coffee cake. It came out vegan because I had no eggs or butter, but with its bit of crunch from the pecans, the added nuttiness of the wheat germ, and the citrus edge it is very tasty as well as wholesome. I also had only one orange and so extended the citrus juice with water, but you could use the juice and zest from a second orange if you have one The lemon juice helps activate the leavening so don't leave it out. Among other reasons for making the streusel first, it is harder to zest a juiced orange.
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