Coffee cake with cinnamon filling and streusel
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Ingredients
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- 147 g light brown sugar
- 30 g all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp cinnamon
Cinnamon filling: mix the light brown sugar, flour and cinnamon in a small bowl and set aside.
The cinnamon filling
- 90 g all purpose flour
- 110 g light brown sugar
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp salt
Streusel: mix flour, light brown sugar, cinnamon and salt in a medium bowl, breaking up any lumps of brown sugar with a fork.
Why there is no coffee in coffee cake
- 6 tbsp cold butter
Cut the cold butter into small pieces and work it in with clean fingers until the mixture resembles wet sand; squeeze and break apart for larger crumbles.
Working butter into the streusel
- 210 g all purpose flour
- ¾ tsp salt
- 2 tsp baking powder
Whisk flour, salt and baking powder together in a separate medium bowl and set aside.
- 142 g butter
Cream the butter for a minute until there are no lumps.
- 150 g granulated sugar
- 55 g light brown sugar
Add the granulated sugar slowly, then the light brown sugar, and mix about three minutes until light and fluffy, scraping the bowl down after about 40 seconds.
- 2 whole eggs
Add the eggs one at a time, letting the first incorporate before the second, scraping down between.
- ⅔ cup sour cream
Mix in the room temperature sour cream until smooth, then the vanilla.
Sour cream: why it makes a tender crumb
- 2 tsp vanilla
Add the dry ingredients on the lowest speed and stop while streaks of flour remain; finish by hand with a spatula until the flour just disappears.
Spread half the batter into an 8 by 8 inch pan lined with parchment paper.
Layering batter, cinnamon and batter
Sprinkle the cinnamon filling evenly over the batter, then dollop the remaining batter on top and connect it with a spatula, spreading in one direction.
Sprinkle the streusel over the top, going lighter in the centre so it does not sink.
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla
- 2 tbsp milk
Glaze: whisk the powdered sugar, vanilla and milk together.
Optional vanilla glaze drizzle