Coffee Lovers Coffee Cake

Submitted by Kittencalrecipezazz

"This delicious cake has a wonderful buttery-tasting crumb bottom... perfect with coffee or tea."

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Yields: 1 (9-inch) cake

ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons instant coffee granules
• 2 cups firmly-packed brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 cup butter, cut into pieces (cold)
• 2 tablespoons butter, cut into pieces (cold)
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 large egg, slightly beaten
• 1⁄2 cup chopped walnuts or 1/2 cup pecans
• 1⁄2 cup mini chocolate chip

directions

1. Set oven to 350°.
2. Grease a 9-inch square baking dish.
3. In a large bowl, combine the flour, coffee granules, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt; mix well with a spoon to combine.
4. With a pastry blender/knife cut in the COLD butter until crumbly and well blended.
5. Press half of the mixture into a prepared baking pan; set aside.
6. In a medium bowl whisk together the sour cream and baking soda; add in the egg, and whisk until combined.
7. Add sour cream/egg mixture to the remaining crumb mixture, stiring gently JUST until combined.
8. Pour over the crumb crust in the pan.
9. In a small bowl, combine the nuts and chocolate chips.
10. Sprinkle over the top of cake.
11. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until done.

Reviews

[Cabnolen]

It wasn't the best cake I've ever tasted, the baking soda tasted quite strong. I was quite surprised it turned out actually, since I've never baked a cake where I had to split the dry ingredients in half and layer them as the base. The base was actually a little crunchy. Cold butter was hard for me to cut in, so I semi-melted them so they were sort of soft. It's quite dense, and I didn't sprinkle the nuts, just the chocolate chips on top. As shown in the pictures, I used a round tin instead, it seems it serves 14..! Not too bad nonetheless, but am still in search for that coffee cake :)

 

[SkinnyMinnie]

This was such a good coffee cake! YUMMY! DH has been requesting it ever since I made it! Thank you for posting!

 

[kusinera]

WOW, this cake was so delicious, I love the buttery flavour. Great little cake, I made mine in a 8x8 inch square baking pan, thanks!