Brown Sugar Coffee Cake

from The Cast Iron Skillet Cookbook

• Ready In: 50 mins
• Serves: 12
• Yields: 1 cake

Ingredients

• 1  cup salted butter, at room temperature
• 1  cup light brown sugar
• 2  eggs
• 1  teaspoon vanilla
• 3⁄4 cup sour cream
• 2 1⁄2 cups flour
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder

• Topping

• 1⁄2 cup flour
• 3⁄4 cup light brown sugar
• 1  teaspoon cinnamon
• 6  tablespoons  chilled butter
• 1  cup  chopped  nuts

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350º.
2. Cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy.
3. Add eggs, one at a time.
4. Blend in the vanilla and sour cream.
5. In separate bowl, mix dry ingredients.
6. Fold the dry into wet, until well blended.
7. Butter a 12-inch cast iron skillet.
8. Pour batter evenly into skillet.
9. Topping:.
10. Mix flour, brown sugar, cinnamon and chilled butter with fingers until well blended. Sprinkle on cake mixture. Sprinkle nuts on top.
11. Bake cake for 35-40 minutes Center of cake should be firm.
12. Serve warm.