Sour Cream Coffee Cake

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July 25, 2023Katie

Sour cream coffee cake recipe

My cousin Diane has been making this Bitter Cream Espresso Cake for years and raving about it.

I by no means had the hankering to make it as I’m not a lot of a baker or a sweet-tooth anymore. I was such a nasty candy tooth gal that I ate frosting out of a can.



True story.

My mother will let you know once I was a young person, I did a type of sweet bar fundraisers fir band- you already know those? The place you may both get almonds or caramel or crispies in them? Nicely it got here time for the fundraiser to be due and I had $50 value of sweet wrappers behind my mattress and an empty field..

One other true story.

Lately, I’ve misplaced my candy hankering however my kryptonite is an efficient salsa with some salty chips or my newest obsession- warmed connoisseur olives with olive oil, loads of crushed garlic cloves and lemon or orange peel along with a smattering or sizzling chili flakes.

Nevertheless, on our current journey to Michigan, I lastly had a chunk of Diane’s espresso cake, and I lastly realized what the obsession was.

The story is that rising up of their childhood house, their neighbor introduced this espresso cake over to them each Christmas. Once they moved away, they couldn’t dwell with out it, they usually begged the recipe and have saved making it. Now it’s a staple at each vacation gathering.

And I fully get why.

It’s sugar at its greatest. However it’s additionally moist and cinnamon-laced and crunchy on the underside.

Keep in mind to let the espresso cake cool fully earlier than you attempt to get it out of your Bundt or tube pan. Ensure you absolutely grease the pan. For those who make it in a Bundt pan or tube pan you may at all times put some factor fairly within the gap to embellish it for seasonal gatherings. Holly berries for Christmas and so forth. It doesn’t matter the way you beautify it. A easy sprinkling of powdered sugar will do the trick and folks will go loopy over it.

Bitter Cream Espresso Cake

Prep time

15 minutes

Prepare dinner time

50 minutes

Complete time

1 hour 5 minutes

Writer: Katie of Dishin & Dishes

  • CAKE BATTER INGREDIENTS
  • 2 sticks butter (1 cup)
  • 1 ½ c. sugar
  • 1 ¼ c. bitter cream (full fats, not mild)
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 t vanilla
  • 2 c. flour
  • ½ t. sea salt
  • ½ t. baking soda
  • 1 t. baking powder
  • FILLING INGREDIENTS
  • 1 t. cinnamon
  • ¼ c. sugar
  • ¾ c. darkish brown sugar
  • 1 c. pecans, chopped
  • Pinch sea salt
  1. CAKE INSTRUCTIONS:
  2. Preheat oven to 325º.
  3. Grease Bundt pan with oil.
  4. Beat collectively butter and sugar. Add egg and beat. Add bitter cream and blend.
  5. Combine remaining dry components collectively.
  6. Add dry combine to butter/sugar/egg combination and blend
  7. FILLING INSTRUCTIONS:
  8. Combine all collectively.
  9. Sprinkle half the filling in backside of pan.
  10. Pour half the cake batter over filling.
  11. Sprinkle all however ¼ c. of remaining filling over batter.
  12. Pour remaining batter over filling.
  13. Easy with spatula and sprinkle remaining ¼ cup of filling over high evenly.
  14. Bake at 325º for 50-60 minutes (examine after 40 minutes) or till toothpick inserted in heart comes out clear. Enable to totally cool earlier than eradicating from pan.
  15. High with sprinkled powder sugar.

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