Sour Cream Coffee Cake
From Recipes with a History
Quickbreads, Coffee Cakes Recipes
Recipe With a History, January 2000
Good Morning Coffee Cake "... When we cousins do get together, the host or hostess arises early to make "Aunt Ginny's Coffee Cake" for the rest of us. It's equally good with ice-cold milk or steaming coffee."
- 1/3 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 cups sifted flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup sour cream
Heat the oven to 350 degrees F and grease a 6-cup tube pan. Mix walnuts, brown sugar, and cinnamon to make topping and set aside. Stir or sift flour with baking powder, baking soda, and salt until dry ingredients are well combined.
Cream the butter with the sugar until the mixture is light, then beat in the eggs and vanilla. Add the flour mixture in alternate thirds with the sour cream, beating well after each addition. Spoon half the batter into the pan and sprinkle with half the topping, then add remaining batter and sprinkle on the rest of the topping. Bake for 40 minutes without opening the oven, then test for doneness (a toothpick should come out clean). It may need another 5 to 10 minutes of baking.
Reviews by Readers
Even though I mistakenly used a larger tube pan than the recipe called for, and even though my oven is hot (I baked it for 40 minutes at only 375º and it was still overdone) it still came out like the plain kind of cake my Aunt used to make.Terrific! – Reviewed by Paul Winston
I share my good find recipes with relatives. Of course, they ask, who wouldn't. This was a great tasting cake. Thanks – Reviewed by Patricia
We make this coffee cake for all of our office parties. Everyone loves it. Just a tip: the batter is supposed to be pretty thick, you have to spread it into the bundt pan. – Anonymous Review
I have been making this recipe for years, got it from a former neighbor probably 35 years ago. To add more flavor or to make it 'special' I sometimes add a can of pie filling apples or blueberries or cherries to the batter. Delicious! – Reviewed by Beverlee C. Beers
