Coffee Cake Recipe: Sour Cream Coffee Cake

Do you enjoy having a delicious pastry to go with your morning single cup coffee? Well, if you do, then we have the absolutely perfect coffee cake to pair with your morning coffee. It's a sour cream coffee cake and it. is. divine. 

All the recipes we share are ones that feature ingredients that are easy to find in stores, if you don't already have them in your cupboard. For this sour cream coffee cake recipe, you will need:

Streusel:

• 3/4 cup of chopped walnuts- if you are allergic to nuts, then just omit this ingredient. Not a big deal. 
• 3 tablespoons of cold, sliced butter- unsalted? Sure. 
• Quarter teaspoon of salt- kosher? Go for it. Sea salt? Go for it. Regular? You betchya. 
• 1 and a half teaspoons of ground cinnamon. 
• Half cup of all-purpose flour. 
• Quarter cup of brown sugar

Cake:

• Half teaspoon of salt - not a typo. You'll need this.
• Half teaspoon of baking soda.
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder
• 2 and a half cups of cake flour
• 1 and a quarter cup of sour cream
• 1 and a half teaspoons of vanilla extract
• 3 eggs at room temp
• 1 and a half cups of sugar - granulated
• 12 tablespoons of butter- you'll need this plus the other butter

And for the glaze: 

• Half cup of sugar- confectioners
• 2 tablespoons maple syrup

Now, let's to baking so you can enjoy this with your K-cup coffee! 

Cake:

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit. While that's heating up, use non-stick spray and some flour on a tube baking pan (10 inches).
2. Mix the butter and the sugar in a bowl either with an electric mixer or manually. With a mixer, use a paddle attachment for about 5 minutes. Do this until the mix is lighter in color and fluffy. Add in the eggs, one at a time, and then mix in the vanilla extract and the sour cream. In that order. 
3. Grab a mixing bowl, sift the baking powder, flour, salt, and baking soda into it. Put the mixer on a slow setting, then mix in the powder mixture and mix until it's all mixed in. Now, you can mix it some more manually for a bit. 

For the streusel: 

1. Grab the brown sugar, flour, salt, butter, and cinnamon and mix in a bowl. Use your fingers to form crumbles. If you are using nuts, mix them in here. 

Back to the cake:

1. Grab 50 percent of the batter and spread in the tube pan. Toss about 3/4 cup of the streusel into the this. Mix the rest of the batter into the pan and spread it, then place the rest of the streusel on the top of it. Bake it for an hour; monitor until it looks done and the toothpick test comes out clean. 

Now, let the cake cool, this will be about half an hour. Move the cake (make sure the streusel side is on top) onto a plate. Mix the confectioners sugar and the syrup with a whisk. Make it like a glaze. Spread on top of the cake. 

Now slice and enjoy with your coffee. Spread the happiness and love! 

Pancake Recipe Perfect for Pairing with Coffee

On a nice weekend morning, nothing is better than having a delicious plate of pancakes and a hot cup of single cup coffee. We found an incredible recipe for apple-bacon pancakes with cider syrup. Oh my, they will even make pancake lovers out of someone who once despised pancakes. If you like apples, pancakes, and bacon, you will absolutely love these. These pancakes have a nice sweet, yet slightly smoky taste to them.

The ingredients in this recipe are very easy to find in a store, if you don't have them in your kitchen cupboards already.

• Half cup of apple cider
• 3 tablespoons of light brown sugar, and make sure it's divided 
• 1 1/2 teaspoons of lemon juice
• 1 1/2 teaspoons of cornstarch
• half cup of whole-wheat pastry flour. Yeah, has to be whole wheat. 
• Quarter cup of all-purpose flour. None of that flour that isn't cool enough to do more than one job! 
• 2 tablespoons of all-purpose flour. That's not a typo. 
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• 1 large egg
• 1 large egg white
• Half cup of nonfat buttermilk
• 1 cup of apple, peel it and dice it (about 1 medium sized apple)
• 4 slices of bacon, fried and cut
• 1 teaspoon of canola oil, and make sure it's divided

Now that you have ingredients good to go, let's get to frying up some pancakes to pair with your medium roast K-cup coffee! Or, if you like K-cup tea, that works too! Delicious. 

1. Mix the cider, brown sugar (just 2 tablespoons), lemon juice, and the cornstarch into a small saucepan. Bring your mix to a medium heat until boil. Whisk it and cook it until it thickens; this should take about a minute or two. 
2. Whisk the whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder, and the last bit of brown sugar (there should be 1 tablespoon left) in a small mixing bowl. Mix in the egg, egg white, and the buttermilk in a large mixing bowl. Then, mix in the dry ingredients, bacon, and the apple chunks until it is all combined. Yeah, it will be thick batter indeed! 
3. Grab a skillet (large) and with a half teaspoon of oil and put on medium heat. Use a quarter cup of batter and cook four at a time. They should be about 3 inches in diameter per pancake. 
4. Cook until the edges are dry and you see bubbles start to form in the middle (this will take about two minutes). Flip. Cook a couple more minutes or until they are golden brown. 
5. Serve pancakes, pour on apple cider syrup. Sip a dark roast single cup coffee, read your favorite section of the paper. Repeat.