Recipe

My Mom’s Coffee Cake (a Family Holiday Tradition): Holiday

Servings: 6

Prep time:60 minutes

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup shortening

  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar

  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

  • 3 eggs

  • 2 cups sifted flour

  • 1 teaspoon baking powder

  • 1 teaspoon baking soda

  • 1/2 pint sour cream (1 cup)

  • 6 tablespoons butter or margarine, softened

  • 1 cup brown sugar, packed

  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon

  • 1 cup chopped nuts

Step 1:

Cream shortening, sugar, and vanilla thoroughly. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift together flour, baking powder, and baking soda. Add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream, blending after each addition.

Step 2:

Grease a 10-inch tube pan and line bottom with wax paper. Turn half the batter into pan.

Step 3:

Cream softened butter with brown sugar and cinnamon. Add nuts and toss to make crumbly.

Step 4:

Place half of mixture over first layer. Spread with remaining cake batter and top with remaining nut mixture. Bake at 350 degrees F 45 to 50 minutes, or until cake springs back when lightly touched.

Step 5:

Innkeeper Teresa Jacobson's Note: This is traditionally only baked at Thanksgiving and Christmas. I am not sure how the tradition started, but it is so delicious and moist, I think I may have to break tradition. My two grown boys will eat a whole one!

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