This Pumpkin Sour Cream Streusel Coffee Cake is perfect for fall. It’s a moist, tender bundt cake with a brown sugar streusel filling, the warm flavors of fall, and a subtle pumpkin flavor.
Melissa, I Was Born to Cook, in addition to being a great cook, also loves to bake. In fact she admits to having an addiction for bundt cakes which she bakes in the wonderful bundt pan she “borrowed” from her mom and dad.
My favorite cake is a bundt cake, so how could I resist making the luscious pumpkin bundt cake Melissa posted last fall. She called this a bundt cake, but with it’s streusel filling, it seemed more like a coffee cake to me and a perfect excuse to eat cake for breakfast.
The bundt recipe she used is from Very Best Baking and it’s very similar to my Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread recipe that we love. So I decided to combine the two so the recipe would work well at my altitude. I also added a cinnamon drizzle made with melted cinnamon chips and a melted white chocolate chips.
Update: I recently made the recipe again and took new pictures. The cinnamon chips can be difficult to find, so this time, I made a Cinnamon Caramel Glaze to drizzle on top of the Pumpkin Sour Cream Coffee Cake.
The glaze is super easy to make using a little caramel ice cream topping and some ground cinnamon. I topped the glaze with crushed sliced almonds, but I think next time I’ll try some toasted pecans.
Baking this cake reminded me of my mom. When she was baking with brown sugar she would put a little clump of brown sugar in my mouth. I still can’t resist looking in the bag to see if there’s a little clump of sugar I can pop in my mouth. My daughter says she has memories of me doing the same thing except I used a spoon. Guess my brown sugar isn’t as clumpy as mom’s.
Baking together is a great way to create memories. I hope you’ll bake this cake for/with someone you love.
Pumpkin Sour Cream Streusel Coffee Cake
Ingredients
Streusel filling
- ½ cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon pumpkin pie spice*
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter melted
Cake
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice*
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 cup 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup pure pumpkin puree
- 1 cup sour cream I used light
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
Cinnamon drizzle
- ⅔ cup chips
- 1 ½ teaspoons shortening do not use butter, margarine, spread or oil
Cinnamon Caramel Glaze
- 3 tablespoons caramel ice cream topping
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons milk
- ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 12 cup bundt pan. (I used cooking spray with flour.)
- Combine streusel ingredients in a small bowl. Mix until mixture is crumbly. Set aside.
- Combine flour, pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. Beat sugar and butter in mixing bowl until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each one. Add pumpkin, sour cream and vanilla, and mix well. Gradually beat in flour mixture.
- Spoon half of batter into pan. Sprinkle streusel over batter, keeping it in the middle of the pan (don't allow it to touch sides). Top with remaining batter. Make sure batter layer touches edges of pan (batter will be thick!).
- Bake for 50-60 minutes or until toothpick comes out of middle of cake clean. Cool for 30 minutes in pan on wire rack. Invert onto rack to cool completely.
- Melt cinnamon chips and shortening in microwave on high for 1 minute; stir until chips are melted and mixture is smooth. (Or, mix together glaze ingredients until smooth.) Drizzle over cooled cake.
Notes
More pumpkin recipes you might like:
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Bars, Barbara Bakes
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies, Barbara Bakes
Halloween Pumpkin Brownies, Barbara Bakes
Pumpkin Brown Butter Cookie Bars, Wine & Glue
Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins, The Food Charlatan
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Lynn
Very good , but I think it could use less sugar .. it’s way too sweet. I thought of using half the sugar to one cup , but followed the recipe I instead just to see how it would turn out …. I am definitely going to try again and cut the sugar in half .
Barbara Schieving
Thanks Lynn – glad you enjoyed it. Definitely change it up to suit your tastes.
Harti
Every cakes recipe from you so wonderful I tried 2-3 different cakes all of them #1 the best I am going to try this pumpkin coffee cake thank you so much Miss Barbara
Barbara Schieving
That’s so nice – thanks Harti!
Stephanie Walls-Benbow
Hi Barbara, Can I use sweet potatoes instead of pumpkin??
Barbara Schieving
I haven’t tried it, but I think it should work well. Let me know if you try it Stephanie.
Verna A.
I made this today, and my whole family LOVED it! Didn’t have caramel ice cream topping, but caramel apple dip worked just fine for the glaze.
Barbara Schieving
Thanks Verna – glad to hear it was a big hit! Caramel apple dip sounds like a perfect way to top it.
Lorraine @ N
I love the look of that hidden layer in the middle! 😀 xxx
Kate
Can you please tell me whether you use salted or unsalted butter for the cake and the glaze? thanks
Barbara Schieving
Hi Kate – I always bake with unsalted butter. Enjoy!
Laurie Campbell
Hi Barbara! If I want to bake this in my 6 qt DUO Instant Pot, could I halve the recipe, since it’s for a 12 cup bundt pan and my small bundt pan for the IP is a 6 cup?
Barbara Schieving
Hi Laurie – yes I would halve the recipe to use in the Instant Pot. Let me know how it goes 🙂
Gelliescent
I love your recipes.
Barbara Schieving
Thanks! I love your comment 🙂