Today is posting day for the new Secret Recipe Club. Each month members are “assigned” a participating food blogger. We choose any recipe from the assigned blog to make or bake, and blog about the recipe keeping the blogger a secret until posting day.
My secret blogger this month is Heather, Eggs, Cream and Honey. Heather is an American living in England and a fabulous British Mummy Blogger. She is baking her way through motherhood, one cake at a time, which is a philosophy I really like!
She has 18 cake recipes on her site right now and it was hard to pick just one to try, but I loved her post When in Doubt…Bake. Instead of jogging, or doing yoga to unwind, she bakes. “Trust me when I say it solves more problems than you think…”
This delightful coffee cake was breakfast last Sunday and it came together quickly and easily and the house smelled amazing while it baked. It rose beautifully, in fact, I was a little nervous that it would overflow. Luckily it didn’t, but next time I’ll bake it on a tray just in case.
It was cinnamony, moist and delicious. Everything you’d want in a Cinnamon Coffee Cake bundt cake. I drizzled it with a cinnamon chip and white chocolate chip glazes, but I think it almost looked prettier without them.
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 4 eggs
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups (16 ounces) sour cream
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 tablespoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans (I omitted these. I think raisins would be a great substitution.)
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350º. Coat a 10? fluted bundt or tube pan coated with vegetable or olive oil cooking spray.
- Combine flour, baking soda and salt set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla.
- Add flour mixture alternately with sour cream, beating just enough after each addition to keep batter smooth.
- Spoon a third of the batter into the bundt pan.
- Combine cinnamon, nuts and brown sugar; sprinkle a third over batter in pan. Repeat layers.
- Cook in oven for 60-65 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 15 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. (I served it warm and it sliced perfectly.)
- Melt 1/4 cup cinnamon chips with 1/2 teaspoon butter flavored Crisco in the microwave in a Ziploc on 50% power for about 30 seconds to one minute until the chips are melted (just sort of knead the chips in the bag a little bit and don't over heat them). Then I did the same with 1/4 cup white chocolate chips and 1/2 teaspoon butter flavored Crisco.
Notes
adapted from The Taste of Home Baking Book
Thanks Heather for posting this scrumptious cake recipe. I look forward to trying more of your terrific recipes.
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Wish I had a slice of this cake for breakfast!
Barbara, this cake looks awesome and the event sounds like so much fun. What a great way to meet more online buddies. xo
Are you going to BH Food Atlanta?
What a lovely looking coffeecake. I’m with Maria, wish I had a slice of that right now!
Woke up to a cold day with snow on the ground! This certainly would have been a perfect breakfast!
This cake looks so soft and delicious! Impossible to resist such a treat.
Cheers,
Rosa
Coffee Cake looks scrumptious! Love the drizzle on top!
Barbara, this is just so very tempting! My mouth is watering. Can’t wait to make one. Hope you’re having a great week ahead.
Blessings, Kristy
This cake looks awesome with the drizzle on top and I’m sure it tastes delicious!
Cheers,
Mamatkamal
That came out beautiful! So glad you played along this month, it’s been great checking out everyone’s recipes!
Sounds like a fun new club! I’d love to indulge in a piece of this right now. Those cinnamon swirls look gorgeous.
This looks absolutely delicious!
This is a great looking coffee cake! I love bundt cakes, so I will have to try this. great job Barbara.
Looks so good and homey!
This looks amazing! Happy Monday to you!
I have a new bundt cake pan just waiting for a recipe like this.
-Brenda
I really need to get a tin like that. All your cakes you make in it look fantastic.
Mum I saw your entry at Deeba’s site and was so excited and proud!
xxx
This sounds like such a fun idea! That is one lovely cake there- I love coffee cakes. I’m going now to check out Heather’s blog!
The swirls are beautiful! I’m going to bookmark this recipe and use it if I ever need to finish up my sour cream. If I were to make it, I would want to decrease the sugar. Did you think the cake was too sweet when you made it? Thank you.
Thanks! You could certainly try it with less sugar. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t in baking to make a big change like that. For me the cake wasn’t too sweet, but I do like sweet things. Please let me know if you make it.
this is such a beautiful cake! i love a cinnamon coffee cake!
The Cinnamon coffee cake looks wonderful. can you explain about the glaze though? This is the one thing I would have to put on it because it sounds yummy, but you didn’t write out how to do that. Thanks!
Thanks! To make the two glazes I melted 1/4 cup cinnamon chips with 1/2 teaspoon butter flavored Crisco in the microwave in a Ziploc on 50% power for about 30 seconds to one minute until the chips are melted (just sort of knead the chips in the bag a little bit and don’t over heat them). Then I did the same with 1/4 cup white chocolate chips and 1/2 teaspoon butter flavored Crisco. Thanks for the question!
Hey Barbara! Thanks for posting this recipe and making it look so good! I am in Scotland with hubby and kids and several other families for spring break. I promised them a cinnamon coffee cake and had actually forgotten there was one on my blog. So thanks for reminding me. It looks great. Take care x
I agree—baking solves problems
This looks yummy!
What a fun event Barbara…and your coffee cake looks gorgeous, love how you decorated it…I could use a piece of this yummie cake right now. Have a great week ahead
A gorgeous cake!! I do love how cakes like this make the house smell!!
lovely cake with a coffee
I remember these, haven’t tasted one for ages either. Love the drizzle effect too, a cool way to get that yummy icing without being overpowered by the stuff – looks incredible too
Looks delicious and I love cinnamon!
Looks so good and so yummy! I could eat the whole cake myself!
Ah, I love Heather and her blog and I agree with her philosophy. If in doubt, bake… baking always makes me feel better about everything. And this is sooooo my kind of cake! We are coffee cake fanatics in this house, especially with cinnamony swirls like that! This is one gorgeous cake and the recipe is bookmarked! Just beautiful, Barbara!
That’s a great recipe, Barbara. I’ve made something similar, but without the drizzle. I like to make them in individual bundt molds too. Sour cream makes cakes like this so tender and moist!
Sounds like a fun club. Looks like you picked a winning recipe! I love bundt cake~the density and the presentation:)
That looks lovely.
I love this recipe!
Cinnamon really should be one of the official food groups….
This weekend this cake and me have a date!
That is an absolutely beautiful cake, I love the swirl of cinnamon!
I love a good coffee cake and this sounds wonderful. I’m a nut kind of girl (no smart remarks, please!), so I would have added those. I love your glaze drizzles! And then I’d be nipping at it all day and evening until it was gone.
Have a great Easter!
I love lots of desserts but my all time favorites are coffee cakes to go with my afternoon tea. This looks so delicious!!
Your coffee cake turned out so beautiful, and I love how you decorated it!! I’d wouldn’t last long in our house!
Hi Barbara!
I have included you in my Easter ideas post. I think your site is wonderful!
-Heather
http://www.madefamousby.blogspot.com
Glorious! I would like two pieces please
This looks beautiful, Barbara. I’ll have a piece, too, please.
Your cake looks like it would be tasty to the very last bite. I love all that cinnamon sugar swirled through it.
Hey Barbara, dont u come up with the most wonderful cakes?
The secret recipe club sounds sooo wonderfully exciting too!
I love that drizzle atop babe!
Happy easter with lods of love and hope and sunshine!
would love to see this on my table in the AM too! Love your setting!
Barbara…You won my giveaway! Email me your address so I can send it out ASAP!
I love the drizzle on top! Sounds wonderful and the smell of this baking would be wonderful!
Looks and smells {virtually} heavenly…wow! I have a special love for bundts and this looks a winner!! What a wonderful pick for the club!
Looks amazing and must taste delicious too…Love cinnamon..so festive and lovely!
-Shilpa
Looks amazing and must taste delicious too…Love cinnamon..so festive and lovely!
-Shilpa