Divertimenti's American Coffee Cake with Streusel

Divertimenti's American Coffee Cake with Streusel

Ingredients:

For the Cake:
225g Butter
1 cup caster sugar
3 eggs
2.5 cups plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup sour cream or yoghurt
2 tsp vanilla essence

For the Streusel:
2/3 cup plain flour
2/3 cup walnuts
2/3 cup cup brown sugar
5 tbsp/120g butter
1 tsp cinnamon
¼ tsp salt

Method to make the cake:

Cream Sugar and Butter in the Kitchen Aid with the paddle until light and fluffy.

Slowly add the eggs one at a time until it is fully incorporated. Scrape down the sides at each interval.

In another bowl, weigh out the rest of the cake dry ingredients and add them to the mixture in the Kitchen Aid. Mix until well incorporated.

Next add the vanilla essence and sour cream or yogurt.

Grease and line a 28cm cake tin.

Method to make the streusel:

Melt the butter in a pan and add to the other dry ingredients in a bowl. Mix thoroughly.

Put some of the mixture into the tin and sprinkle the streusel over the top. Add more of the mixture on top of this and sprinkle the rest of the streusel on top of this.

The whole mixture only reaches 2/3 of the tin as the cake rises…

Bake at 180º for about 1 hour or until a skewer comes out clean from the middle of the cake.

Allow to cool.