Sour Cream Coffee Cake

Top Baking Tips for Coffee Cake Room temperature ingredients. For the best results when baking this coffee cake, your cold ingredients (like butter and eggs) should be at room temperature so they can incorporate fully into the batter. Except for the butter for the streusel, that should be COLD. Use real butter. This isn’t the time to use shortening or margarine. Those perform differently in baking recipes, and this recipe was only tested using real butter. Use fresh ingredients. Some of these are obvious, like using non-expired eggs, but did you know using older baking soda/baking powder can affect the way your cakes bake? Over time, leavening agents (which is what baking soda and powder are) lose their efficacy, and won’t give your cakes that beautifully soft texture. To test your baking powder, add a bit to hot water. If it bubbles and fizzes, you’re good to go! However, if your baking powder is older than 6 months, it’s best to just get a new can. The older one can still be used f Variations of this recipe Nuts – for a fun, and delicious crunch, try adding 1 1/4 cups of chopped pecans or walnuts to the streusel layers! Fruit – this cake is amazing with some diced apples in it as well! I prefer using granny smith apples. Swirl – instead of layering the cake and streusel, you could try swirling it. Still add half your cake batter and half the streusel to the pan, but then take a butter knife or toothpick and swirl it around. Top with remaining cake batter and a layer of streusel and bake as directed. More streusel – this recipe uses a moderate amount of streusel, but if you’re like me, you’ll want as much of that deliciousness that you can get! Feel free to make extra and add more to either, or both, streusel layers. Larger pan – if you’re making this coffee cake for a crowd and would like more than 9 slices, my advice would be to use 2 separate 9×9 pans, rather than trying to fit it all into a 9×13 pan. I’ve not tested using a 9×13 with a doubled recipe, and I wouldn’t want your pan to overflow.

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% Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet