Coffee Cake

My American wife and I had our first (but certainly not the last) cultural miscommunication over coffee cake. To me, Irish it’s an iced cake, coffee-flavored. To her, it was a homey, homemade morning cake to be eaten with a soothing cup of coffee. During a bout of homesickness when she was a student in Dublin, she expressed a longing for coffee cake. The next day, I brought her a cardboard bakery box. She opened it with great anticipation to find a round layer cake glistening with shiny bro