Layered Streusel Coffee Cake
Prep Time: 2 hours
Cook Time: 1 hour
Servings: 16
Serving Size: 1 slice
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Ingredients
- TOPPING:
- 1/4 cup butter
- 2/3 cup flour
- 1/4 cup toasted pecans - chopped
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- FILLING:
- 1 cup toasted pecans
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon cocoa powder
- CAKE:

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- 2 1/2 cups flour plus 2 tablespoons, sifted
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/4 cups butter - softened
- 1 2/3 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 cups sour cream  
 
This moist coffee
cake is full of flavor. It has a streusel
top and its filling provides a cinnamon flavor with a touch of chocolate. This recipe takes a little
extra time but it is well work the end results. For a simpler coffee cake, see this
href="http://www.recipetips.com/recipe-cards/t--4498/streusel-coffee-cake.asp">Streusel Coffee Cake recipe.
 
Directions

  • Prepare a Bundt cake pan or Angel Food cake pan by buttering the bottom and sides thoroughly.
    Toast 1 1/4 cups of pecans and set aside to be used later.
TOPPING:

  • Coarsely chop 1/4 cup of toasted pecans.
  • In a small saucepan, heat the butter until just melted and then remove from the heat. Allow it
    to cool until it is just lukewarm.
  • While the butter is cooling, combine the flour, pecans, sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, baking

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powder, and salt in a small bowl. Stir the ingredients to combine evenly.
  • Add these ingredients to the lukewarm butter and stir with a fork until they are evenly mixed.
    Mixture will be crumbly. Set the topping aside.
    • FILLING:

    • Finely chop 1 cup of toasted pecans.
    • Add the remaining filling ingredients in with the chopped pecans. Whisk these ingredients to
      evenly distribute. Set the filling aside.
    CAKE:

    • In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set these ingredients
      aside.
    • Using an electric mixer, cream the butter until it is light and creamy.
    • Add about one third of the sugar to the creamed butter and beat thoroughly. Add the remaining
      sugar in the same manner, one third at a time. Beat mixture thoroughly, scraping the sides as you
      go.
    • Add the eggs one at a time, beating after each addition.
    • Add the vanilla and one forth of the flour. Beat on low until dry ingredients are mixed in and
      then add 1/3 of the sour cream.
    • Mix the sour cream in and then alternate in the same manner until all the dry ingredients and
      the sour cream have been added. You should end up adding flour four times and sour cream 3
      times.
    • As you are mixing, be sure to scrape the sides.
    ASSEMBLING:

    • Carefully spoon in two full cups of batter into the bottom of the buttered pan. Spread the
      batter out evenly on the bottom of the pan.
    • Sprinkle about 1/2 cup of filling evenly over the layer of batter in the pan.
    • Repeat these layers in the same manner. When spreading batter on top of the filling layer, be
      careful that you do not disturb the filling layer.

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  • You should end up with 4 layers of batter and 3 layers of filling.
  • After the last layer of batter is spread out sprinkle the streusel on top. Leave the streusel
    coarse and crumbly.
  • Lightly press the streusel down on the batter.
  • Place in an oven preheated to 350°F. Bake for approximately 70 minutes. Check for doneness
    after 60 or 65 minutes. A toothpick poked in the center should come out clean.
  • Place on a cooling rack and allow the cake to cool for one hour. After one hour, remove the
    cake by pulling up on the center tube and pushing carefully from the bottom.
  • To remove the bottom and center tube cut a piece of foil big enough to cover the top of the
    cake. Put it over the top of the cake and poke a hole for the center tube to come through. Form
    the foil tightly around the top of the cake.
  • Take a long knife and slide it all around the bottom of the cake to loosen it from the bottom
    of the pan.
  • Place a large plate over the top and with one hand on the plate pull the cake to the edge of
    your work surface and carefully work the other hand under the cake so you are holding it between
    both hands.
  • Flip the cake upside down and set the plate on the work surface and the cake should side off
    the tube.
  • Place your cake plate on the bottom side of the cake, which should be facing up now and holding
    the cake in the same manner, flip it back over so the top is facing up and the cake is placed on
    the cake plate.
  • Serve while the cake is still warm or allow it to cool if you prefer.

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