Cracked Grain Coffee Cake
1 cup butter
3 eggs
3 cups whole wheat flour
1/2 cup cracked grains
1.5 tsp.baking soda
1 cup brown sugar, packed
2 tsp vanilla extract
1.5 tsp. baking powder
1.5 cups buttermilk
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup chopped pecans
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease well a bundt cake pan, set aside.
In a large bowl beat butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla until well blended. Stir together flour, cracked grains, baking powder and baking soda. Alternately add flour mixture and buttermilk to butter mixture. Blend well.
In a separate bowl, mix brown sugar, pecans and cinnamon.
With a large spoon, place half of the batter evenly into your prepared pan and sprinkle with filling. Top with remaining batter.
Bake for approximately 1 hour or just until cake begins to pull from pan sides. Cool in pan 15 minutes, then invert onto a serving plate.