Sour Cream Streusel Coffee Cake

When is it ever wrong to have coffee cake??  Never! I'd like a piece right now - and I'm not even that hungry!  A homemade coffee cake with a crunchy, streusel-y topping is on everyone's list of favorite things.  I would go so far as to even say that non-dessert people (who are you anyway?) love streusel coffee cake.  Nearly impossible to resist folks.  Try if you like though.  But I know what you're eating at 3am when you thing everyone else is sleeping.


Cinnamon Streusel Sour Cream Coffee Cake
(As a tip, if you do not have cake flour, simply subtract 3 Tablespoons of regular flour from this recipe.  And for future use, if a recipe calls for cake flour, take away 1 Tablespoon for every one cup of flour, .)

1 1/2 cups walnuts, coarsely chopped
1 1/4 cups light brown sugar (packed)
4 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
4 1/2 tsp. unsweetened cocoa powder
3 cups cake flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
3/4 tsp. salt
3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) butter, room temperature
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 large eggs
1 Tbsp. pure vanilla extract
1 16-ounce container sour cream

1 cup powdered sugar
1 Tbsp. milk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit
Butter a 12-cup bundt pan.  Mix first 5 ingredients in a small bowl and set aside.  Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt into medium bowl.  Using an electric mixer, beat butter and 1 1/2 cups sugar in large bowl until blended.  Beat in eggs 1 at a time.  Mix in vanilla.  Mix dry ingredients and sour cream alternately into butter mixture in 3 additions.  Beat batter on high for 1 minutes.

Pour 1/3 of batter into prepared pan.  Sprinkle with half of nut mixture.  Spoon 1/3 batter over to cover nut mixture.  Sprinkle with remaining nut mixture.  Spoon remaining batter over to cover.

Bake cake until tester inserted near the center comes out clean, about 1 hour.  Cool cake in pan on rack for 10 minutes.  Cut around pan sides to loosen cake.  Turn cake out onto rack and cool 1 hour.  Transfer to serving platter.

In a small bowl, whisk powdered sugar and milk until smooth.  Drizzle over cooled coffee cake.