Coconut Orange coffee cake

My mom used to make this coffee cake for us kids as a special breakfast treat before school.

I have made it a few times lately and it is always met with rave reviews so I thought I would share the recipe. (Although Aidan won't eat it because I told him it was coffeecake, so he thinks I have literally put coffee in it and refuses to try it. I guess next time I make it I will have to make it with him so he can see there is absolutely no coffee in it!)

Orange Coconut Coffeecake

1 1/2 cups flour

1 cup sugar

2 tsp baking powder

1 8 oz carton of orange yogurt

1/2 cup oil

1 tsp vanilla

2 eggs

Mix wet together, add dry, trying not to over mix.

Pour into a greased 8 x 8 pan.

Arrange 1 8oz can of well drained mandarin oranges on top of cake.

Next, mix 1/2 cup of coconut with 1/4 cup sugar and 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon and then place that mixture on top of the oranges.

Bake at 350 for 20-40 minutes, or until cake is done. If you use the toothpick check method it will be a little "wet" on the toothpick because of the oranges, so I usually jiggle the cake, and when it is solid in the middle you know it is done.

Also, sometimes it is hard to find orange yogurt, so then I just use vanilla. Just make sure you are using real yogurt that has no artificial sweeteners because they don't have predictable outcomes when baking.