pat's Recipe

Nebraska Sour-Cream Coffee Cake

Category: Cakes

1 cup butter
1 1/4 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 8-oz carton sour cream
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsps baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
sifted powdered sugar

In a mixing bowl, beat butter for 30 seconds. Add sugar and beat till fluffy.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating 1 minute after each addition. Beat in the sour cream and vanilla.
Stir together the dry ingredients. Beat in the sour cream mixture till just combined.
Butter and lightly flour a 9-in springform pan with tube center or a 10-in fluted tube pan. Spoon half the cake batter into the prepared pan.
Combine walnuts, brown sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle half the mixture over the batter in springform pan or all the mixture over batter in the tube pan.
Spoon the remaining batter into the pan, spreading evenly. Sprinkle batter in springform pan with remaining nut mixture.
Bake in 350 degree oven for 45-50 minutes (about 40 minutes in fluted tube pan) or till done. Cool 10-15 minutes in pan on wire rack. Remove from pan.
Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Serve warm.

makes 12-16 servings.