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Coffee Cake

A super delicious coffee cake. Crumbly and bursting with cinnamon and chocolate.
Prep Time45 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cake
Servings: 8 Generous servings

Ingredients

Streusel

  • 30 g Sugar
  • 25 g Almond meal (almond flour)
  • 25 g Cake Flour
  • 7 g Cinnamon 1 Tbsp
  • 21 g Melted butter 1.5 Tbsp

Filling

  • 75 g Brown Sugar
  • 7 g Cinnamon 1 Tbsp
  • 7 g Cocoa Powder 1 Tbsp
  • 40 g Walnuts (chopped)
  • 60 g Chocolate Chips

Batter

  • 1 Stick Salted Butter Room temperature
  • 140 g White Sugar
  • 30 g Brown Sugar
  • 7 g Vanilla 1.5 tsp
  • 2 Eggs
  • 115 g Sour Cream Yogurt is fine too
  • 190 g Milk
  • 325 g Cake Flour
  • 2 tsp Baking Powder

Instructions

Prepare the streusel (the topping)

  • Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl and break up clumps with your fingers until you have a sand-like consistency.

Prepare the filling

  • Mix all the ingredients together in a different bowl except for the walnuts and chocolate chips. Keep those in yet another bowl pre-measured and ready to go.

Prepare the batter

  • Preheat your oven to 350F.
  • Mix the sour cream and milk in a bowl. No need to make the mix perfect, clumps are fine.
  • With a whip attachment, beat the butter, sugars and vanilla until you get a pale creamy consistency. Scrape the bowl several times as you do this.
  • While the mixer is on medium speed, add eggs one at a time. Go back to high speed and whip until you get a pale stiff whipped cream-consistency. Scrape the bowl a few times as you whip.
  • On low speed, add the milk-sour cream liquid and the cake flour alternating. In other words, add some liquid, then some flour, then some liquid, and then more flour. Do this in 3-4 steps until all the ingredients are in. Add your baking powder during one of the increments. Stop and scrape the bowl several times as you progress.

Assembly

  • Pour half your batter into a greased baking dish.
  • Sprinkle all of your filling powder on the batter.
  • Sprinkle your chocolate chips and walnuts evenly over the batter.
  • Pour the other half of the batter over everything.
  • Use a butter knife to swirl the filling and chocolate chips/walnuts a bit.
  • Sprinkle streusel on top.
  • Bake at 350F for 52-60min or until you can place a toothpick in the center and it comes out clean.
  • Allow to fully cool before enjoying. This cake is best fresh, but it is still great 2-3 days later as well. Refrigerate after being left out more than 3 days.