Coffee cake

One of my favourite things to eat and to make is coffee cake. I saw that sour cream was on sale so I decided to buy a couple and make coffee cake.

This is my go-to recipe.

1 cup butter

1 cup white sugar

1 cup sour cream

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

2 cups ap flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

I omit the salt asked for because I used salted butter

I make a cinnamon brown sugar for layering. Sometimes I add chocolate chips, coconut and/ or nuts. Whatever I have on hand!

I mix all the wet ingredients together and set aside. (The first 5 ingredients)

Then I mix all the dry ingredients together and set that aside. Or I have my helpers do it!



We then mix the wet into the dry; by hand!

This requires some muscle.

Then we mixed up the cinnamon brown sugar in a small bowl.

Now we grease our pans and start layering; beginning with batter and alternating with cinnamon brown sugar. Ending with batter, so the topping doesn’t burn.



Bake at 350F anywhere from 45 minutes to almost two hours. All depends on your pans, and I flip them out as soon as they come out of the oven.

My favourite way to have coffee cake is from my grandmothers bundt pan. Something so wonderful about it. I think fondly of her and the Cooking adventure that was her life.

For the bundt pan I grease and flour lightly so it will come out easily.

This is the moment I hold my breathe every time! 

Perfection!

This extra cake that I  made inadvertently became bedtime snack. I couldn’t blame him for sneaking a morsel; Delicious!