Apple and Sour Cream Coffee Cake
From Martha Stewart
You can serve this cake warm with a dollop of applesauce or lightly
sweetened sour cream.
Serves 8 to 10
Ingredients
For the crumb topping:
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) cold
unsalted butter, cut into pieces
1/2 cup packed light-brown
sugar
1/2 cup toasted pecans,
chopped
1/4 cup old-fashioned rolled
oats
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon coarse salt
For the batter:
1/2 cup unsalted
butter, room temperature, plus more for cake pan
2 cups all-purpose flour
(spooned and leveled), plus more for cake pan
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed light-brown
sugar
4 large eggs
1 cup sour cream
2 Winesap or Granny Smith
apples (about 1 pound), peeled, cored, and diced medium
1 cup toasted pecans, chopped
Method
Preheat oven to 350°F. Make topping: In a medium bowl, combine
butter, brown sugar, pecans, oats, cinnamon, and salt. With a pastry
cutter or your hands, blend until butter is incorporated and mixture
resembles coarse crumbs. Refrigerate until ready to use.
Make batter: Butter and flour an angel-food cake pan or 14-cup Bundt
cake pan. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, cinnamon,
and salt. In another large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter
and sugars on high, scraping down bowl as needed, until light and
fluffy, about 4 minutes. Beat in eggs, one at a time, scraping down
bowl after each addition. Add sour cream and beat to combine.
With
mixer on low, gradually add flour mixture and beat just until combined.
With a rubber spatula, fold in apples and pecans; transfer batter to
pan. Top with crumb topping and, with a butter knife, gently fold some
of topping into batter. Bake until a toothpick inserted in middle comes
out clean, 60 to 70 minutes. Let cool in pan on a wire rack 15 minutes,
then turn out onto rack and let cool.
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