Coffee Cake

If Bux didn’t popularize the coffee cake, did it really exist?

• ⏲️ Prep time: 40 min to 1 hr
• 🍳 Cook time: 1 hr
• 🍽️ Servings: 6 to 8

Ingredients

Cinnamon filling

• 3/4 cups brown sugar
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 cup flour

Streussel topping

• 2/3 cups brown sugar
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 cup butter, cold-to-room temperature

Dry

• 2 1/4 cups flour, sifted
• 1/4 cup corn starch
• 3/4 tsp salt
• 2 1/2 tsp baking powder (not heaping, can use slightly less)

Wet

• 🌡️ 3/4 cups butter, room temperature
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 🌡️ 3 eggs, room temperature
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup sour cream

Directions

1. Mix all ingredients for cinnamon filling in a small bowl, set aside.
2. Mix everything but the butter for streussel topping in a separate bowl. Add grated butter in, mix by hand. Should have a crumbly mixture, set aside.
3. Mix all dry ingredients in a separate bowl.
4. In a large bowl, cream butter from wet ingredients.
5. Add both sugars to the butter from wet ingredients, mix.
6. Add eggs one-by-one to wet ingredients, mix.
7. Add the rest of the wet ingredients. Mix.
8. Combine wet and dry ingredients by hand. Don’t overmix, should be a thick batter.
9. Line a 8x8 (9x9 would also be ok) pan with parchment paper.
10. Pour half of the batter into the pan, spread.
11. Add cinnamon filling.
12. Pour other half of the batter, spread.
13. Add streussel topping.
14. Bake 350 F for 50 minutes, check with wooden skewer for readiness, add time if needed.