My son Sam has always loved coffee cake and I have no idea where this passion came from. I am a coffee-lover – I would walk miles for good coffee – but I’m not a coffee cake-eater. It has taken us some years to perfect our coffee cake recipe as Sam has had a keen interest in it. American chalet chefs use buttermilk (a sour milk) in their muffin recipes so we started using yoghurt in ours and they do rise better. It was Sam’s idea to add the
