Week 5 of the 12 Weeks of Christmas

Remember that cute snowman box that I shared with you last week?  Well this week I have an awesome recipe for you to fill it with this holiday season.   It's a recipe from my mother in law for coffee cake.  She originally started making this recipe while she was in the Jaycees back in the mid 1970's.    She has delighted many people with this coffee cake over the years. 

Our family uses this recipe for brunch, holidays and other special occasions.  It is a recipe that never fails, although my husband likes to joke with me that mine never tastes quite like his moms.   I think that has more to do with childhood memories than the actual coffee cake because the recipe is the same.  Either way, he never really turns down my version when I make it for him, so he must like my recipe too. 

Here's what you need to make this coffeecake:

• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 cup of butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 tsp vanilla

For the topping:



Mix topping ingredients

• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 cup chopped pecans or walnuts

Directions for making the cake:

• Mix butter and sugar until fluffy
• add eggs
• add vanilla
• in a separate bowl mix flour, baking soda, salt and baking powder and sift together

Mix all dry ingredients and sift

• Alternately add the sour cream and flour mixture (1/2 at a time) to the butter mixture
• mix well
• spray the bottom of a 9x13 cake pan with cooking spray
• add 1/2 of the cake mixture to the pan and spread evenly over the bottom of the pan
• sprinkle 1/2 of the sugared topping over the cake mixture in the pan
• spread the remainder of the cake mix on top of the sugar mixture being careful not to pull the sugar into the batter.  For this step, I create mounds of batter, as shown below, then use a butter knife to carefully spread to batter
• sprinkle the remaining sugar mixture over the coffee cake
• Bake at 325 for 35 minutes, or until cake tester comes out clean

Add the second layer of batter in mounds.  Use a butter knife to evenly spread over the sugar mixture

Enjoy!

I hope that this recipe becomes a favorite of your family, too.  Just know that you are bound to get special requests for this after you have made it once.  Enjoy!

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Happy Stamping,

Debbie