Coffee Cake is Better with This Ingredient (Sour Cream Coffee Cake)

Sour cream coffee cake is a moist, tender, and flavorful snack cake. My recipe has both a cinnamon sugar ripple and a sweet crumb topping, but it's still easy enough for beginners!
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Ingredients
Ripple
¼ cup granulated sugar (50g)
1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon
¼ teaspoon salt
Cake
½ cup unsalted butter, softened (113g)
1 cup granulated sugar (200g)
⅓ cup light brown sugar, firmly packed (66g)
2 large eggs, room temperature preferred
1 cup sour cream (240g)
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour (220g)
¾ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon baking soda
¾ teaspoon salt
Streusel topping
1 ⅓ cups all-purpose flour (175g)
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed (200g)
¼ cup granulated sugar (50g)
4 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon salt
10 Tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled until no longer warm to the touch (140g)
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Instructions
00:00 Introduction
For the ripple
00:17 Preheat oven to 350F (175C) and lightly grease a 9x9” (23x23cm) metal pan with butter. Set aside.
00:30 In a small mixing bowl, whisk together sugar, cinnamon, and salt for the ripple and set aside.
For the cake
00:50 Combine butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl and use an electric mixer to beat together until light and fluffy.
01:45 Add eggs and beat until completely combined.
02:17 Add sour cream and vanilla extract and stir well. Pause periodically to scrape down the sides and bottom of mixing bowl with a spatula to ensure all ingredients are well incorporated.
03:03 In a separate, medium-sized mixing bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
03:33 Gradually fold dry ingredients into wet ingredients until batter is uniform.
03:57 Spread approximately half (slightly less than half is best) of the batter evenly into the bottom of your prepared pan, then sprinkle the cinnamon/sugar ripple mixture over the batter. Dollop the remaining batter over the ripple layer and gently spread into an even layer over the surface. Prepare the streusel topping.
For the streusel
05:00 Combine flour, sugars, cinnamon, and salt In a medium sized bowl and whisk until combined.
05:53 Pour melted, cooled butter over the flour mixture and use a fork to toss / claw together the mixture until you have a crumbly streusel mixture (all the butter should be absorbed and no dry flour should be remaining).
06:48 Sprinkle streusel evenly over prepared batter.
07:11 Bake in center rack of 350F (175C) oven for 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs.
07:26 Allow to cool before cutting and serving.
Notes
Glaze
If you’d like to add a simple vanilla glaze over the coffee cake, whisk together ½ cup (65g) powdered sugar with 2-4 teaspoons of milk and ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract until you have a smooth glaze that ribbons off your whisk.
Storing
Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days. This coffee cake may also be wrapped in plastic wrap and then aluminum foil and frozen for several months.
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[@Mistertbones]

I love how you left in the electric mixer acting up.

[@BrissasBlessedBites]

Hi Sam I am 8 years old and I love baking so much!!!!! and I love coffee cake so much too. and I love your recipes. so I will definitely make this.❤❤

[@SugarSpunRun]

You’re welcome! I hope you love it! 😊

[@kkeenan536]

Congratulations (baby bump) 🥰 & excited to try the coffee cake!

[@SugarSpunRun]

Thank you! I hope you love it! :)

[@richardhendrix7894]

Love the color free range chicken eggs.

[@SugarSpunRun]

So many different colors!

[@Pamela_Gram]

Congratulations on the new addition 👶 that's coming to your delightful household. Thanks for this coffee cake recipe. Those are always so good for breakfast.

[@SugarSpunRun]

Thanks so much! 😊

[@rmariee4443]

I’m always so intimidated to bake but you always make it look so easy! Gonna try making this for my dad and husband soon❤

[@SugarSpunRun]

Thank you so much! I hope everyone loves it! :)

[@kresimirmilisa5560]

Sam i love coffee and this coffee cake is good😊

[@MyName-zd9pe]

Delicious! Saw you uploaded this when I was looking at Boston cream pie recipes. A sign to change my dessert plans? Lol! 😁

[@SugarSpunRun]

Definitely a sign! :)

[@karenbalkaranali4739]

I always love your floral arrangement in the background🤗😚

[@SugarSpunRun]

Thank you! 😊

[@Michelle-Gx3jq]

I made your last coffee cake and it was delicious! Can't wait to try this one, too❤

[@SugarSpunRun]

I think you'll love this one! :)

[@danniemcdonald7675]

First, congratulations!👶 Second, thanks for this recipe. I had a similar one, but lost it. It had chopped pecans in the struesal and did involve a glaze drizzled on after it cooled (optional, but why?? 😂).

[@kkat7512]

Looks fantastic!!

[@MixinwithRobin]

This looks amazing.

[@Lettuce-and-Tomatoes]

That looks amazing. I’m saving this recipe to use as the inside base for an ice cream cake I want to make. Excellent video!!! 🏆

[@SugarSpunRun]

That sounds like it will be awesome!

[@SincerelyYoursWill]

Really beautiful recipe and addictive coffee cake here! Followed your instructions, w just one adjustment of scaling down the top because I am using an 8x8 not a 9x9 square pan - as well as lower the temp to 325º. And it came out just wonderful! I've been trying to get this 'style' (the ripple middle effect w the streusel topping) using my own sour cream coffee cake recipe and it kept collapsing. My version of the sour cream coffee cake was intended for a bundt, and it does NOT translate well to a square pan. That's when YOUR recipe came to save the day. As both share similar ingredients, but the baking powder & baking soda ratios were perfect in yours for a square pan! The cake was fluffy tender and balanced the three elements wonderfully! I'm still gonna mess around w my version of the sour cream cake using reverse creaming - just for curiosity's sake. Again, thanks for sharing this w all the steps for this cake! It was like getting all the answers to the test where I can figure out where I made a misstep. hehe

[@SugarSpunRun]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it so much! :)

[@SavoryExperimentsCooking]

I love this! I can't wait to make it!

[@SugarSpunRun]

Enjoy! 😊

[@sharonreznick4397]

Made this for brunch yesterday, it was a big hit! Yum! Thanks you for the great recipe!

[@beverlygilstrap4528]

Looks so good! 🎉🎉🎉

[@brendamaldonado2373]

Yummy ❤

[@rinaconley448]

I made this for our Easter Brunch . It is very good . Thank you

[@charmainemontgomery582]

I love coffee cake & I’ll be trying your recipe 😊

[@SugarSpunRun]

I hope you love it! 😊

[@mmakomanyatja5213]

Love it Sam many thanks bless to your family

[@SugarSpunRun]

Thank you! 😊

[@mayonnaiseeee]

I think your hand mixer was protesting on behalf of your stand mixer today. Perfect recipe timing, just bought sour cream for cheesecake and I can use some more up in this. I have found through baking that the spiced stuff (pumpkin pie, sweet potato pie, carrot cake, coffee cake, cinnamon buns) are my favs 😊. Thanks Sam!

[@SugarSpunRun]

🤣 I hope you love this one! :)

[@karendanczak8923]

This coffee cake looks delicious and beautiful! Thank You! Can't wait to make this! ❤

[@SugarSpunRun]

I hope you love it! 😊

[@karendanczak8923]

This recipe was a hit! Thank you again! ❤

[@pjim7731]

Lol it’s the pregnancy clumsiness the whole video for me 😂😂😂 congrats and I loveeee this coffee cake soooo much!!!!

[@SugarSpunRun]

🤣🤣 I hope you’ll try this one! I think I you’ll love it! 😊

[@angelatruly]

Are you a Starbucks fan? Your thumbnail pic caught my attention as I am liking their coffee cake that looks like yours. I would really like your thoughts on theirs (not a comparison, just thoughts) if you have a chance to taste. I am sure it is a better buy to make it yourself. Let's see a ~ 3x3 (I am going to measure as it might be 4x4) piece at $4.00 + $6.00 (of course if I am there I am going to order a drink even though I have beans at home) 😢. Omgosh thank you for this recipe.

[@SugarSpunRun]

I am actually not a coffee drinker so I don't go there often. I've never tried the coffee cake so I can't give you a good comparison. :(

[@canadafragrancereviewerdia9119]

Looks delicious. Congratulations on baby.

[@SugarSpunRun]

Thank you! 🤗

[@TEENATTRAN]

ah, your bump is so cute!! aside from that, ive been wanting to bake a coffee cake for a while now (ever since i tried the starbucks one). i’ve tried once for a cookie version and it was not it! lol so i can’t wait to try yours! the only part i find intimidating is the “crumble” part, im not sure why but i could never get it to crumble :(

[@MakananMini]

I Like Cake 🎉😋😋

[@SugarSpunRun]

Me too! :)

[@innocentrage1]

So weird i was looking at one of your previous coffee cake recipes this weekend and then bam sour cream coffee cake to try

[@SugarSpunRun]

I hope you love this one! :)

[@tayamay197]

How long should it cool before cutting? A few hours?

[@Rexvideowow]

I tried a very similar recipe that included slightly less sour cream and a quarter cup of milk. It turned out okay, but I think it was a tad too moist. I think doing as you did here with no milk and just the sour cream probably provides a better result.

[@SugarSpunRun]

I hope you love it! :)

[@vickirickman9373]

At first I thought you had lil belly from all of the awesome desserts you make 😆ha😆 I’m kidding Congrats 😊❤ I love coffee cake cannot wait to try this one!! I always use your crumble topping on all my breads zucchini, pumpkin banana mmm mmm Thank you always !!

[@SugarSpunRun]

You’re welcome! I hope you love this coffee cake. 😊😊

[@vickirickman9373]

@@SugarSpunRun 😊👍 I’m sure I will don’t think that I’ve made anything recipe of yours that I haven’t liked 😊

[@user-vx7hg3nn4v]

I literally went to your instagram page FIRST to see if you mentioned being pregnant! I have opened my mouth waaaaay toooo many times asking and it was usually, "um, no!!!!" Congratulations!

[@SugarSpunRun]

🤣 thank you!

[@RicardoTBS]

Your husband or boyfriend must be the happiest man on earth. 😊

[@wendyhamilton4444]

I think adding pevans to the struesel layer would be amazing.

[@mariposazul9842]

Se ve muy rico amiga😊gracias...te dejo un saludo 👋y mi suscripcion ❤❤❤

[@SugarSpunRun]

I hope you love it! 😊

[@mariposazul9842]

@@SugarSpunRun de nada ...igualmente 🫠👍

[@heidid5275]

Alright, we are going to need to see a profile of your belly after every video from now on! Let’s watch your…..progress right to the end. If I may ask, how far along are you? When is your due date? I love babies and this coffee cake. I make it all the time. I also love your videos and recipes. You’re the best!! 👍👍❤️

[@lynjohnston3353]

There is no coffee in the ingredients! I am a little puzzled why it is coffee cake?

[@SugarSpunRun]

Coffee cake doesn't actually contain coffee, but is named so because it is traditionally served with coffee. :)

[@rafatahmed590]

Can I make the cake a day before and refrigerate ??

[@SugarSpunRun]

It can be made a day in advance, I prefer to store covered at room temp as the fridge can dry it out some.

[@fifitumewu3702]

Just wondering why is it called coffee cake but with no coffee?

[@SugarSpunRun]

In the US, coffee cake is a cake that is served with coffee, not made or flavored with it. I hope that helps! :)

[@anniessmokingpot]

I love coffee cake and yours looks absolutely delicious Sam 😊😊😊 your hand mixer just did not want to cooperate today lol, it must be nervous with your standing mixer watching behind you lol 😅😅 thank you for another wonderful recipe 😊 😀 😄 ❤Annie

[@SugarSpunRun]

🤣 I hope you love it! :)