Scrape remaining batter into prepared pan. ![]() Scoop out about 1/2 cup batter and set aside.Ĥ. Add remaining sour cream mixture in two batches, beating for 20 seconds after each addition, and scraping down the sides of bowl with a spatula. Add butter and a spoonful of sour cream mixture and mix on medium speed until flour is moistened. Using a mixer fitted with paddle attachment, mix together flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt. To prepare cake, in a small bowl, stir together the sour cream, egg, egg yolk and vanilla. To make crumbs, in a large bowl, whisk together sugars, spices, salt and butter until smooth. Peel and chop the apples and set aside.Ģ. With apologies to Smitten Kitchen and Adapted from The New York Times 6/6/07Ģ Apples – peeled and chopped into a ¼ dice.Ħ tablespoons softened butter, cut into 8 pieces.ġ. So if you like your coffee cake heavy on the crumbles, and better than that Seattle chain, this is the recipe for you! ‘Mmm… better than Starbucks’ coffee cake’ – which he assured me was high praise. In the end after making him smell the cooling coffee cake for 30 minutes, I relented and cut him a piece. When I reminded him that that the coffee cake was destined for my co-workers, the begging began. C began wandering into the kitchen, and asking when the coffee cake would be out. ![]() Once the cake was in the oven, the cinnamon and spice aromas permeated our apartment. The topping was basically as high as the batter itself, and since the best part of the coffee cake is the crumb topping, this was a very good thing. Once the cake batter was done, and the apples added, the topping was applied by tearing chunks off of the buttery mass. And by having melted butter, it was more thoroughly incorporated into the topping than it would have been if it was cold butter. The topping was thick, almost like play dough. One stick of melted butter combined with the sugars, spices and flour made a crumb topping unlike any I’d ever seen. I then moved on to the crumb part, and that’s when I knew this would be a good recipe. I didn’t have any rhubarb, but I did have two apples, so I chopped them up and set them aside. I assured him that this coffee cake would be taken in to my workplace to feed grateful co-workers and that it need not grace his lips, but he still seemed skeptical. Apparently, he thinks that all the baking I’ve been doing is causing him to gain weight. ![]() But when I announced my intention to my husband C, he protested. Months ago, I had seen this recipe on the Smitten Kitchen blog and had been looking for a reason to try it out. After the disappointing Pear and Ginger Muffins, I was left with a hankering for some good, sweet, crumbly breakfast foods.
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