Family Coffee Cake Recipe

This is our family coffee cake recipe. It's been in our family for years. I can remember my grandma baking this for every family and holiday occasion and my mom carried on the tradition, too, passing it down to all of us. I have so many memories of sitting around the kitchen table enjoying it and having great conversations with family. It's a very special recipe to me that I now want to share with all of you!

You can make this pretty much in any kind of pan/dish you'd like. I have made these into large muffins, cupcake style, loaf pans, etc. My favorite pan to use, though, is a good old fashioned bundt pan, because that is what my grandma used and my mom used.

 

Recipe:

Cake recipe:
2 sticks unsalted butter (softened)
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 cup sour cream
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
2 1/2 cups flour

Nut Mixture:
 2 cups walnuts (chopped)
3/4 cup brown sugar
3 tsp cinnamon
4 tblspn butter

To prepare:

Combine the softened butter & sugar and mix.

Add in your eggs.

Next, add sour cream and mix.

Now, add in your vanilla, baking powder and baking soda.

Once mixed, start adding in your flour, one cup at a time.

Mix well.

Now, you can move on to the nut mixture.

First start out by melting your 4 tblspns of butter in a pan.

Next, chop your walnuts and add to the pan with the butter.

Now, add cinnamon and brown sugar to the walnut/butter mixture and stir everything together.

Now begins the layering of your cake and nut mixture.

Tip: Make sure to coat your bundt pan with cooking spray so the cake will come out easily.

Start off with one layer of cake batter on the bottom of the bundt pan. Then, spread a layer of nut mixture over top. Then, layer cake batter, nut mixture again, ending with the nut mixture on the top.

Bake your cake at 350 for 45 minutes.

While your cake is baking you can make your icing.

To make icing:

Mix powdered sugar with water until smooth and runny. You will drizzle this on top of your cake once it's done.

Once your cake is out of the oven, it is best to let it cool before removing it from the bundt pan. Otherwise, it could fall apart when flipping it out (trust me - this has happened to me on several occasions ;). It still tastes good whether in clumps or whole, but I prefer it in sliced pieces. :)

Once your cake is out and on it's plate, drizzle the icing over your cake and slice and enjoy (notice Max photobombing the pic!).

Hope this coffee cake is a great addition to your recipe book and that you love it as much as we do in our family! May you have wonderful memories and great conversations with this new addition to your kitchen.

Love
Brenda