Pumpkin Sour Cream Coffee Cake

Submitted by Dawn F.

"I have no idea where this recipe came from. I have had this recipe for at least 30 years. This is a moist and tasty cake. Not to hard to make. We use to make this every fall with fresh pumpkin"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 30mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Serves: 16

ingredients

• 2⁄3 cup butter
• 1 cup white sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 (16 ounce) can pumpkin
• 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1 cup walnuts

directions

1. Preheat oven to 325°F.
2. Prepare 9x13-inch cake pan by greasing.
3. Cream together 3/4 cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter, and 1 tsp vanilla.
4. Add 3 beaten eggs to butter/sugar mix.
5. Mix 2 cup flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp baking soda.
6. Alternate mixing dry ingredients to butter/sugar mixture with the sour cream, blending well to form batter.
7. I separate bowl mix pumpkin, 1 egg, beaten, 1/3 cup sugar, and spice till smooth.
8. Prepare a streusel topping with 1/3 cup soften butter,1 cup brown sugar, 2 tsp cinnamon, and 1 cup nuts.
9. Pour 1/2 the batter into prepared pan.
10. Spread pumpkin mixture over batter, then top with 1/2 the streusel.
11. Top with remaining batter top with remaining streusel.
12. Bake 50 to 60 minutes.

Reviews

[Ari Eila]

This was ok. I made it as written. It looked like there was a little too little of the cake batter vs. fillings, but it baked up fine (it was just difficult to spread). The streusel didn't include any flour, and therefore sank into the top of the cake without definition. I found the cake itself to be overly sweet, but that might just be me--still, I expected most of the sweetness to come from the streusel like in a classic coffee cake, and not from the cake. The pumpkin layer came out a little bland, and the whole cake was too moist. For the effort it took, I'm not sure I'll be making it again. If I did, I'd probably double the batter to filling ratio, cut the sugar by 1/3 in everything but the streusel, and add flour to the streusel. This took about 75min to bake in two loaf pans.

 

[Sarah in New York]

Wow! That pretty much sums up this AMAZING recipe! I brought this to work this morning to have with coffee and it was gobbled up in about 15 minutes! We have quite a few pregnant girls that ate more than one piece :), but everyone was raving about it and some were asking for the recipe. I will be making this again and again!