The Kitchen Door

Sometimes I just want a good piece of coffee cake. I have lots of recipes for coffee cake. I find that the ones I like the best have the traditional streusel somewhere in the mix. I like biting into a pillowy soft piece of cake and being treated to a sugary, cinnamony, nutty bite every few bites. 

There is just something so “homey” and “old timey” about a coffee cake. It just begs for a pot of coffee to be made and served to a friend over great conversation while seated at the kitchen table.

I wish you were all my neighbors, as I would have you over to share this great cake, some coffee, and a friendship. 

I got this recipe from a recipe sharing site. It was shared by Rachel over at Home Sweet and Savory who said that it was her mother’s “time honored recipe” and one that she “grew up eating”. Rachel’s Mom just called it “Coffee cake” but Rachel wanting to honor her Mother renamed it “Libby’s Coffee Cake”, so that’s what I will call it too.  

Here’s the recipe, I hope you enjoy it as much as I and the friends who ate it did.

Libby’s Coffee Cake

Homey and delicious coffee cake.

The Ingredients

• 
½ cups chopped walnuts
• 1-½ cup sugar (divided use)
• 2 tsps cinnamon
• 2 cups sifted flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• ½ cups butter, room temperature
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup sour cream

The Instructions

1. Combine the walnuts, 1/2 cup sugar and cinnamon and set aside.
2. Grease a tube pan (I used a bundt cake pan for mine).
3. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
4. Using your mixer, beat the butter until creamy. Gradually add the remaining 1 cup of sugar.
5. Add the eggs, one at a time. Add vanilla, beat until blended.
6. Add flour mixture alternatively with the sour cream.
7. 
Pour half of the batter into the pan, and then top that with half of the nut mixture. Pour the remaining batter in, and then top with the rest of the nut mixture.
8. Bake for 40 minutes in a 350°F oven.

By: The Kitchen Door via "Home Sweet and Savory"

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