Sour Cream Coffee Cake

There’s a lot going on with each bite of this cake and every bit of it is delicious! It’s a moist vanilla cake with a cinnamon-cocoa swirl and a crunchy, nutty streusel topping.

There are 3 components to prepare, so a few dishes get dirtied in the process, but they are easy to make and each one comes together fairly quickly. The most time consuming part of the cake is the assembly: the batter, which is added to the pan in 3rds alternating with a sprinkling of the dry swirl mix, is very thick and difficult to spread. I used the suggested offset spatula to help with this and wet it frequently so the cake batter wouldn’t stick to it.

I cut it into 24 (it bakes in a 9”x13” pan) but could have easily cut 30, and possibly even 35 pieces as the cake holds together very well and not much of the streusel topping is lost during slicing. Excellent for feeding a crowd.