Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake

Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake

Make it with: 
Richard’s Famous Grampa’s Favorite Apple Pie Spice

Serve this warm and fragrant coffee cake with a mug of Maple Punkin’ Spiced Coffee, recipe on our website HERE!

Ingredients
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Spray cooking spray in a bundt cake pan.

FOR THE STREUSEL:
1/3 C. light brown sugar, packed
½ C. all-purpose flour
2 tsp. Richard’s Famous Grampa’s Favorite Apple Pie Seasoning
4 T. butter, salted
½ C. walnuts or pecans, chopped (optional)

 1. Combine all streusel ingredients, except nuts, in a bowl and pinch with your fingers until the mixture is combined and crumbly.
2. Stir in nuts if desired. Set aside.

 FOR THE CAKE:
1 ½ sticks butter, softened
1 ½ C. granulated sugar
3 large eggs
1 ½ tsp. alcohol-free vanilla extract
1 ½ C. sour cream
2 ½ C. all-purpose flour (we use organic)
2 tsp. aluminum-free baking powder
½ tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt

1. Cream together the butter and sugar with a paddle mixer until the color is light and the mixture is fluffy, about 4 minutes.
2. Add one egg at a time with the mixer on slow speed and mix well.
3. Add vanilla and sour cream. Mix well.
4. Combine the dry ingredients in a separate bowl, and with the mixer running on slow speed, gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet mixture until it is just combined.
5. Spoon 1/3 of the batter into the bundt pan that has been sprayed with cooking spray and spread evenly. Batter will be sticky. Sprinkle with 1/3 of streusel mixture. Spoon 1/3 more of batter over streusel and spread with fingers. Sprinkle with 1/3 of streusel mixture. Spoon in remaining batter and spread with fingers. Sprinkle with remaining streusel.
6. Bake 50 minutes in center of oven.
7. Enjoy the buttery cinnamon-y aroma that will fill your kitchen. Check for doneness with a tester. If the tester is clean, remove cake from the oven and let cool on a wire rack for 30 minutes or more. If the tester does not come out clean, continue to bake and check again after 8. minutes or until done.
9. Place bundt pan on a serving plate and invert. Keep the streusel topping as the top of the cake.

Optional: Drizzle with a glaze made of ½ C. confectioner’s sugar mixed with 3 T. maple syrup. We use real, organic maple syrup.