Sour Cream Coffee Cake

Ingredients

  • ¾ cup butter or margarine, softened
  • 1½ cup sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1½ teaspoons vanilla
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour*
  • 1½ teaspoons baking powder
  • 1½ teaspoons soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1½ cups dairy sour cream
  • Filling (below)

Directions

  1. Heat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Grease tube pan, 10x4 inches, or 2 loaf pans, 9x5x3 inches.
  3. Combine butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla in large mixer bowl.
  4. Beat on medium speed 2 minutes or 300 vigorous strokes by hand.
  5. Mix in flour, baking powder, soda and salt alternately with sour cream.
  6. For tube pan, spread ⅓ of batter (about 2 cups) in pan and sprinkle with ⅓ of Filling (about 6 tablespoons); repeat 2 times.
  7. For loaf pans, spread ¼ of batter (about 1½ cups) in each pan and sprinkle each with ¼ of Filling (about 5 tablespoons); repeat.
  8. Bake about 60 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
  9. Cool slightly in pan(s) before removing.

*If using self-rising flour, omit baking powder, soda and salt.

Filling

Mix ½ cup brown sugar (packed), ½ cup finely chopped nuts and 1½ teaspoons cinnamon.