Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake

I bake this coffee cake for Carlos so he can have it for his breakfast while I am away. This coffee cake is buttery, cinnamon-y, tender, moist and smell heavenly when you bite into it. The best part of the cake is the cinnamon-y streusel inside and the crunchy streusel on top. It’s great with a cup of or coffee or tea.

Ingredients :

3/4 cup (1 1/2 stick) of butter
1 cup of sugar
2 1/2 cup of flour
2 tsp of baking powder
1/2 tsp of baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup of sour cream
4 eggs
1 tsp of vanilla


Streusel

1/4 cup of brown sugar
1 cup of chopped walnuts or pecans
3 tbsp of butter
½ cup of flour
1/4 tsp salt
2 tsp of cinnamon powder

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and grease and flour a baking pan.
2. Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs 1 at a time, then add the vanilla and sour cream.
3. In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. With the mixer on low, add the flour mixture to the batter until just combined. Finish stirring with a spatula to be sure the batter is completely mixed.
4. For the streusel, place the brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, salt, and butter in a bowl and pinch together with your fingers until it forms a crumble. Mix in the walnuts.
5. Spoon half the batter into the pan and spread it out with a knife. Sprinkle with half of the streusel. Spoon the rest of the batter in the pan and top it with the rest of the streusel.
6. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes, until a cake tester comes out clean.

Note : I used a bundt pan for this cake so I put half of the streusel at the bottom of the pan and the other half in the middle.