Cranberry Sour Cream Coffee Cake with Pecan Crumb Topping

Description

Fresh cranberries and pecans are plentiful around the end of the year, and they make a great combination in this yummy coffee cake. Serve warm, if you like with coffee, or as a dessert.

Ingredients

  • ½ cup light brown sugar
  • ½ cup white sugar
  • ½ cup all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 pinch salt
  • ¼ cup cold unsalted butter
  • ½ cup chopped pecans, or to taste
  • 3 ⅔ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • ¾ cup sour cream
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 1 ¼ cups whole milk
  • 2 cups chopped fresh cranberries

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and lightly flour a 9×13-inch baking pan.
  2. Combine brown sugar
  3. white sugar
  4. flour
  5. cinnamon
  6. and salt for crumb topping in a medium bowl and toss lightly with a fork.
  7. Grate the butter into the flour mixture using the largest side of a box grater. Combine with a fork or pastry knife until ingredients are combined and have the appearance of very coarse meal; the pieces should be loose and not sticking together. Stir in pecans and set topping aside.
  8. Combine flour
  9. baking powder
  10. and salt for cake in a large bowl.
  11. Combine butter
  12. white sugar
  13. and brown sugar in the bowl of an electric stand mixer. Beat on medium speed until light and fluffy
  14. about 2 minutes. Add sour cream
  15. eggs
  16. and vanilla extract and mix
  17. scraping the bowl as needed
  18. for 1 minute. Add flour mixture on low speed in thirds
  19. alternating with milk
  20. ending with the flour mixture. Mix until just smooth. Stir in cranberries with a spoon.
  21. Spread batter into the prepared baking pan and sprinkle topping evenly over the batter.
  22. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean
  23. about 55 minutes. Cool in the pan on a wire rack for about 10 minutes. Serve warm.

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 55 mins

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins

Servings: 14

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