Community Pick
Fantastic Apple Sour Cream Coffee Cake
photo by CookingONTheSide
- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Serves:
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12
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup shortening (Crisco is good)
- 1 cup sugar (or more or less to suit taste)
- 2 eggs
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla extract or 1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup sour cream
- 4 medium apples, peeled and finely chopped (or 5 small apples)
- 1⁄2 cup chopped nuts
- 1⁄2 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons butter
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Set oven rack to second-lowest position.
- Grease a 13 x 9-inch baking pan (this can also be made in an 11 x 7-inch baking pan).
- In a mixing bowl, cream the shortening and sugar for a couple of minutes.
- Add in the eggs and vanilla or almond extract (if using); beat for about 5 minutes.
- In a bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- Add to creamed mixture alternating with sour cream.
- Fold in the apples.
- Spread the batter into prepared baking pan.
- In a small bowl, combine the nuts, brown sugar, cinnamon and butter.
- Sprinkle the nut mixture evenly over the batter.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes, or until the cake tests done.
Questions & Replies
Reviews
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I baked as written with the addition of extra topping as suggested. The taste of the cake was wonderful, however, the texture was too moist, as though it was not thoroughly baked despite being baked completely. I think I may have added too many apples, as they vary in size and the 4 I used yielded quite a bit of apples, I think that 2 large apples would have sufficed and changed the texture completely (for the better) while keeping the apple flavor in tact. I baked for 60 minutes which is when the toothpick came out clean. I will try again with less apples.
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Well it's gotten to the point at my house where when I tell my husband the recipe is from Kittencal, he says "Oh, good." You're a household name here. This was fantastic. I wasn't planning to make adjustments, but I discovered after I already started that I had no shortening or baking soda. I used a stick of unsalted butter for the shortening, and after perusing the internet, I used double the baking powder in place of the soda. It still turned out amazing. I used apples that I had frozen a couple of weeks ago and it still turned out great. My husband is chowing down on it as we speak.
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what an incredible recipe. i followed it exactly, glad for the clarification from other reviewers about the amount of apple to use(2 cups), made it in a bundt pan, doubled the topping, put some in the bottom of the bundt pan, another portion in the middle of the batter and the rest on the "top" of the cake batter. cooked it for 40 minutes and it came out perfect.<br/>delicious!! my 16 yo son literally ate the whole cake over two days.
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Tweaks
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This was a very moist (almost too moist) and delicious coffee cake. I made it as written with the exception of using margarine instead of shortening. It took longer than 40 minutes to bake in my oven and even then, I had difficulty figuring out when it was done as I didn't want it to dry out. Overall, a very good cake served at a morning ladies get together.
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