DIY Coffee Cake with Linda Masterson

Oh my gosh. I had no idea cake from scratch could be this EASY. I had to lean on Linda to give me this recipe, but she finally conceded to my charm. :wink:

Please welcome Linda Masterson, and check out this cake. I have all these ingredients in stock and plan to make this tonight.

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Thanks, Maria, for letting me be part of your DIY Christmas.

Unlike many of the recipes I’ve gathered over the years, I remember exactly where this one came from.  It was 1969.  Hubby and I were traveling from Ohio to Boston and stopped for the night with friends in Rochester.  She served this cake at breakfast and called it “coffee cake”.  I’m not a coffee drinker but I was crazy about the cake and managed to get her recipe.  Over the years, it has become such a favorite in our family my boys request it for their birthdays instead of the traditional frosted variety.  

Chocolate Chip Sour Cream Cake

Batter

½ soft butter or margarine

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

2 cups flour

2 tsp baking power

1tsp baking soda

1 cup sour cream

1 tsp vanilla

Topping

1 cup chopped nuts

1 cup chocolate chips

¾ cup brown sugar

1 tsp cinnamon

You need a form pan, i.e. an angle food cake pan, well greased.

Cream together the butter and sugar.  Add eggs and blend till smooth. Sift together the flour, baking powder, and baking soda.  Add gradually and mix well.  Batter will be quite thick. Add sour cream and vanilla and mix until smooth.

Mix topping ingredients together.

Put 1/3 of the topping in the pan.  Cover with 1/3 of the batter.  The batter is thick so you have to spread it out.  Repeat with the next third of each and so on.  Then swirl a knife through the batter to distribute the topping until well mixed.

Bake at 350° for 50 minutes.  Cool at least ½ hour before removing from pan.

Fair warning: serve yourself a smaller piece than you think you want.  It’s pretty rich.  And you can always go back for seconds.

Enjoy.

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Transplanted from Boston as a child – and still a diehard Red Sox fan – Linda has lived on both coasts, prefers the northeast, but will probably stay forever in Ohio because that’s where her four grandkids are.

After twenty years with the American Red Cross, she has moved to a full time pursuit of the dream of being published.  Linda writes mysteries/suspense, sometimes with a bit of paranormal, and always with enough romance to make it fun.  You can catch her on her blog, and her website.    

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