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Sour Cream Coffee Cake with Cinnamon Walnut Swirl

Sour Cream Coffee Cake with Cinnamon Walnut Swirl

dana vento
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Additional Time 10 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 35 minutes
Course Recipes
Cuisine dessert
Servings 12 slices
Calories 403 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • CINNAMON WALNUT FILLING
  • 1/2 cup + a few tablespoons up to 3 of Brown Sugar Packed (don't be too cheap this gives flavor, but too much will create chaos, this is a good balance as listed)
  • Chopped Walnuts 1/2 C
  • 1 Tablespoon of cinnamon can be adjusted down to as little as 1 1/2 Teaspoons
  • COFFEE CAKE BATTER
  • Wet Ingredients
  • 2 sticks of butter 1 salted one unsalted
  • 3 room temperature eggs**
  • 1 Tablespoon Vanilla or you won't taste it
  • 1 1/2 C White Sugar
  • Sour Cream 1 1/2 C
  • Dry Ingredients
  • 3 C All Purpose Flavor
  • 1 1/2 Tsp each Baking Powder + Baking Soda
  • Salt Only if you did not use a stick of salted butter
  • CINNAMON -- for bundt pan and a handful of walnuts lightly chopped. 2 TBSP

Instructions
 

  • Preheat Oven to 350° F
  • Chop or grind walnuts depending if you want larger or smaller pieces.
  • Next in a small bowl, combine cinnamon, walnuts, and brown sugar.
  • Set aside.
  • Prepare a Bundt Pan by greasing and flouring*
  • Do not let extra flour in the bundt, make sure to tap it all around, and then if any extra remains, dump it into the sink.
  • If your butter is not softened at this point, microwave it in 30-second increments at 50% power, not to create a liquid, rather soften.
  • Set aside.
  • In a small mixing bowl, combine flour, baking soda, powder, and set aside.
  • Using a large mixing bowl (or stand mixer), combine sugar, butter, eggs, and vanilla.
  • Mix until creamy but do not over mix.
  • Next, add in the sour cream.
  • Again, just enough to combine.
  • Now take the dry ingredients and add them a little at a time to the wet trying to avoid a POOF Of dust.
  • Just add bit by bit and then mix very well on low until well mixed.
  • Get your bundt pan, dust it with cinnamon, and add the 2 Tbsp of walnuts scattered around the bundt evenly.
    cinnamon dusted in base of bundt
  • Now, divide the cake mixture in half.
  • Using one half of the batter, drop by the large spoonful around the pan.
  • Next, divide the Cinnamon Walnut Filling in half.
  • Using one-half, top the newly dropped batter.
  • Now, cover this layer with the rest of the batter, and again, coat this with the other half of the cinnamon walnut filling.
  • Bake in the oven for up to 55-65 minutes - the goal is a toothpick coming out clean, it does not really turn golden brown.
  • Once it's fully baked and the toothpick comes out clean, allow it to cool for 20 minutes.
  • Then, invert and remove from pan.
    Sour Cream Bundt Cake
  • Serve and enjoy.

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Notes

*Spray and use a pastry brush to make sure the grooves of bundt pan are coated.
** If your eggs are not room temperature, run water to make it warm, place eggs in a bowl, and coat with the warm water. Allow eggs to sit for a few minutes and then dry off the egg and crack. You now have room temperature eggs.