Night Before Christmas Coffee Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

For the Cake
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter
2 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup milk, warm
1 (1/4 ounce) package yeast (dissolved in 3 tablespoons warm water)
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
For The Topping
2/3 cup sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon
4 tablespoons butter, melted (or margarine)
1/2 cup nuts (or maraschino cherries, candied red or green cherries)

Preparation

Cream together sugar and butter. Then add eggs, milk, 1 package of yeast (2 tablespoons bulk yeast) dissolved in 3 tablespoons of warm water, flour, salt and vanilla. Beat all of these ingredients together. Then set dough aside and let it rise, until double in size.
When your coffee cake dough has risen to double the size (this may take about 2 hours) put it in a 9x13\" greased pan and spread with topping.
To make the topping: Combine sugar, cinnamon, melted butter and nuts (you can use maraschino cherries or candied red and green cherries if you don't like nuts).
Place in a cold oven and leave it in there overnight to rise.
The next morning turn oven to 350 degrees and bake for 1/2 hour. Take out and serve warm.