Cinnamon Crumb Coffee Cake
This Cinnamon Coffee Cake has a sour cream batter and lots of cinnamon streusel baked into it. It’s a sturdy bundt cake that’s great to take to parties or events!
Moving…as many times as I have done it in the past several years, it’s always such a strange phenomenon. Just this morning I woke up and had a split second where I had no idea where I was (does that ever happen to you?). I have been in this house for 4 months now, but knowing that Pete and I will be moving again in about a year somehow hinders me from feeling adjusted and settled here in this little Connecticut town.
Some of you might be wondering why we move so much, and it’s because my husband serves as an officer aboard US Navy submarines. I have no idea how this has never come up in the two and a half years Fifteen Spatulas has been around, but I guess it’s because it has always been the way of life for us. In the past five years, Pete has been assigned to live in six places, so moving around is just the name of the game. I’ll admit that it’s really hard sometimes and despite the fact that I’m fairly young, I crave roots. I dream of settling down somewhere, buying (instead of renting) a home of our dreams where I can grow my own food garden, and starting a family. Someday soon…
The saving grace of moving around so much is that we always meet wonderful people wherever we go. We make friends with our neighbors, we make friends with others serving in the Navy, and we make friends with locals. It’s amazing how much this can help you feel at home in a new place.
So today, I would like to wish a Happy Housewarming to one of my blogging friends, Ashton at Something Swanky, along with a bunch of other blogging friends!
I know this is a virtual Housewarming, but I hope it makes you feel loved and feel settled in your new home anyway, as you unpack boxes and start off in a new place.
I made Ashton a little Cinnamon Crumb Coffee Cake as a housewarming gift!
All you have to do is make a sour cream batter:
And layer it into a bundt cake pan with cinnamon streusel crumbs:
Swirling it as you go:
60 minutes in the oven and it’s done, and ready to give to someone you love! Enjoy!
Cinnamon Crumb Coffee Cake
Ingredients
For the streusel:
- 3.75 oz flour, by weight (3/4 cup, if measuring)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 4 tbsp cold unsalted butter
- 1 cup chopped toasted pecans
For the Cake:
- 4 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cups sour cream
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 11.25 oz flour, by weight (2.25 cups, if measuring)
- 1.25 cups sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 12 tablespoons unsalted butter at room temperature
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, and set an oven rack in the lowest level of the oven. Grease the inside of a standard bundt cake pan.
- Make the streusel by pulsing the flour, sugar, cinnamon, and salt in a food processor to combine. Add the butter and pecans to the food processor bowl and pulse the mixture 5 times until the butter has been cut up into pea sized pieces. Keep this mixture in the fridge for later.
- In a small mixing bowl, whisk to combine the eggs, 1 cup of sour cream, and vanilla.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, add the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt, and mix on low speed for 30 second to combine.
- Add the butter and other 1/2 cup sour cream and mix on low until combined. Once the flour has been moistened, increase the speed to medium and beat for 30 seconds. Scrape the sides of the bowl, then turn the mixer to low and add the egg mixture in 3 installments, beating for 20 seconds on an increased speed of medium and scraping the bowl in between each set.
- For the final mixing, increase the speed to medium high and beat the mixture for 60 seconds until the mixture looks more voluminous and has become a bit pale.
- Sprinkle a handful or two of the nut streusel into the bottom (which is the top) of the bundt pan, then add a few cups of the batter. Swirl with a knife or spatula. Keep repeating this process of adding streusel and batter, and swirling, until all is used up. Bake the cake on the bottom shelf of the oven for about 60 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let the cake cool for at least 1 hour before attempting to turn it out. FYI, this cake will taste better the next day (more moist and cohesive in flavor and texture). Enjoy!
Nutrition
Nutrition is estimated using a food database and is only intended to be used as a guideline for informational purposes.
86 Comments on “Cinnamon Crumb Coffee Cake”
I hate moving. I’d rather pick my brain out through my nostrils than move again. But… it does mean the house gets really clean fairly often. I might reconsider my fear of moving if I had a coffee cake like this one. It looks smashing.
LOL! Your comments always crack me up, Maureen. There are some fun parts to moving, but I’m starting to feel nesty too!
This cake is beautiful! I love the cinnamon swirl idea.
Thanks Natasha! I love anything cinnamon swirl =)
I love the swirl effect of this cake and the fact that it’s cinnamon through and through. Lovely bundt tin as well, I’d love to add that design to my collection. Such a beautiful cake Joanne.
Hi Laura! I purchased it at Williams Sonoma a few years ago, they might still have it online. I thought it was a cool pan too!
Thanks Joanne, I’m not to sure if Williams Sonoma ship to the UK. I’ve seen it elsewhere though, so I may save up and get it.
I can’t imagine moving around as your husband’s job calls for. My MIL worked in a field that had to move A LOT and I know how inconvenient that is, especially when you have kids also, as in her case.
This coffee cake sounds amazing Joanne! I LOVE the crumb swirl, such a clever idea
Thanks Roxana! Thanks for putting the housewarming party together too.
I love coffee cake, in fact I’m eating a piece right now! But yours looks better 🙂 Congrats on the new place, enjoy it and don’t feel like you have to rush through life 🙂
LOL well isn’t that timely! Thanks for your reminder, Gerry. It’s easy to forget and so important to remember.
Do you think I can sub plain Greek yogurt for the sour cream? That is what I have on hand right now. Love your website by the way! Thanks!
Hi Ashley, I’m not sure, because Greek yogurt has a similar thickness but doesn’t have the same fat content. Sadly I don’t know without trying, but if you do try it, please report back and let us all know!
I will trade you a plate of donut muffins for a slice of this scrumptious cake, Joanne! Love love the cinnamon swirl!!
I think this idea is pretty brilliant =)
I have not moved very often. I tend to be shy, but each time I have moved, I’ve forced myself to get out there and meet my neighbors. I’ve been rewarded each time! This coffee cake is gorgeous. What a wonderful housewarming gift!
Tanya, that’s great you have pushed yourself out of your comfort zone. I think that’s what life is all about!
You girls are just too cute and sweet and thoughtful!!!! I can’t believe that you all actually threw me a surprise housewarming party!!! I wish I could give you all a big hug in person!! I’ll have to make virtual thank you cookies– like the ones I’m taking to the friends who helped us move, lol 😉 And this coffee cake looks incredible!! Thank you so much!
YAY! You’re welcome, Ashton. If you post thank you cookies I will definitely make them LOL. Hope you are settling in to your new home very nicely!
I know exactly how you feel with the moving, and every time we do, we shed some more stuff. This is the longest place where we have stayed so far, and I really, really like my neighbors. I think for my next social gathering with my neighborhood peeps, I will make this cake. Thank you for the recipe. When you move again, I am sure you will be missed by the people around you!
Hi Pey-lih, oh I know what you mean, I feel like we are constantly throwing/giving stuff away! Moving is too tiring otherwise. I’m so glad you have formed a friendship with your neighbors, I truly believe that the best moments in life are the ones you can’t buy…time spent with people you love. Enjoy the coffee cake!
Crumb cakes are one of my biggest weaknesses. Beautiful!
That makes two of us! I totally agree.
This looks wonderful! Newly subscribed, found you via Roxana at Roxana’s Home Baking.
That’s great Jennifer, welcome, and I hope you enjoy Fifteen Spatulas!
This looks amazing! I love coffee cake for breakfast. Or lunch. Or dinner. That shot of the full cake’s swirl is amazing! Beautiful!
Thank you Kristi! Haha I agree, anytime is a good time for coffee cake!
This is a beautiful cake!! I love the cinnamon swirl!
Thanks Julianne, cinnamon swirl anything is pretty great, isn’t it!
Looks so good. I love cinnamon!
Thanks Tieghan! Oh how I love cinnamon as well!
This cake looks and sounds incredible! Cinnamon, crumbs, streusel, sour cream, butter…it must be so moist and perfect! And thanks for sharing what it’s like to move, so much. We’ve moved alot in our day but always by choice and never just being told, okay, you’re moving now. Can’t imagine!
Thank you Averie, you are always so sweet! Maybe Pete and I should have a home in Aruba too so even though we have to move we always have a place in paradise =) hehe