I don’t know whether you’ve yet seen the lovely Oscar-winning animated short film called The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse. (Here’s a trailer if you haven’t.) It’s based on the book by British artist Charlie Mackesy, and in it the character of the little mole is fond of cake. Actually, rather obsessed with cake. His favorite saying is, “If at first you don’t succeed, eat some cake.” To him, cake can cheer up the dreariest day.

I agree whole-heartedly with the mole. So when spring arrived on Monday and yet it was 44° F on the Vineyard (with a 17 mph wind so it felt like 36°F), I thought to myself, the only way to deal with this is to have some cake. Luckily, Abby Dodge came to the rescue with a new cake recipe: Coffee-Coffee Cake.

The cake gets a hit of coffee flavor from a bit of espresso powder. The topping is a boatload of buttery, cinnamon-sugar crumbles that go on the cake halfway through baking so that they don’t weigh down the batter. Served warm, this cake is a seriously comforting snack. But with Easter and Mother’s Day coming up, you might want to bookmark it for later, too.

Snack cakes, pound cakes, upside-down cakes. What would the world be like without cake? You might need a Glazed Lemon Pound Cake or a Cream Cheese Pound Cake to take to a pot luck.