Coffee Cake
Coffee cake is an American snack cake topped with a buttery cinnamon streusel, designed to accompany a cup of coffee rather than containing coffee as an ingredient. Sour cream in the batter produces a crumb that is noticeably moister and more tender than a standard butter cake, with a slight tanginess that keeps the sweetness grounded. The streusel - brown sugar, cinnamon, flour, and cold butter rubbed into coarse crumbs - bakes into a crunchy, sandy topping that shatters against the soft cake beneath. A popular technique layers streusel both in the middle and on top of the batter, creating two distinct cinnamon veins when the cake is sliced.
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Instructions
- 1
Preheat oven to 175°C.
- 2
Cream butter and sugar; beat in eggs and sour cream.
- 3
Fold in flour to make the batter and pour into a greased baking tin.
- 4
Rub together flour, butter, cinnamon, and sugar for streusel; scatter over batter and bake 35 minutes.
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