Coffee Cake
A tender cake with a buttery cinnamon streusel topping, lifted with baking powder and rounded out with vanilla and salt - a cake with no leavening at all is what most quick coffee cake recipes get wrong, baking dense instead of tender.
⏱ 55 min🍽 9 servings
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Ingredients
- •2 cups flour
- •1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- •1/2 tsp salt
- •1 cup sugar
- •2 eggs
- •1 cup sour cream
- •1/2 cup melted butter
- •1 tsp vanilla extract
- •2 tsp cinnamon
Steps
- 1.Preheat oven to 350°F and grease a baking pan.
- 2.Whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
- 3.Whisk together the sugar, eggs, sour cream, vanilla, and half the butter, then stir in the flour mixture - the baking powder is what actually lifts the cake instead of leaving it dense.
- 4.Pour into the pan and mix the remaining butter with cinnamon and a little sugar to sprinkle on top.
- 5.Bake for 35-40 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean.