The Best Coffee Cake Ever

I don’t remember where this recipe came from (from where it is that it came from.) I pulled it off the Internet years ago and I’m much too lazy to Google it again to see if I can find the source.

I made this coffee cake this morning for my friends Jolene and Deb who run SSIR in Ligonier. I sprained my knee stumbling around in the straw mow early in December and after gimping around for 6 weeks I finally asked Deb and Jolene if they’d take a look at it. Jolene’s the knee expert and she worked on my knee for 5 sessions and gave me exercises to strengthen it. My knee’s feeling better every day and I’m feeling good that by the time we get busy planting this spring it’ll be 100%.

Today Owen (the Wonder Dog)

and I took Jolene and Deb my favorite coffee cake as a token of my appreciation of their professional skill. This is the recipe:

Blueberry Sour Cream Coffee Cake (Printable version here)

1 cup butter, softened
2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
1 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 5/8 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries

1/2 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup chopped pecans

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Grease and flour a 9 inch square pan.

In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the sour cream and vanilla.
Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt; stir into the batter just until blended.
Fold in blueberries.
Spoon half of the batter into the prepared pan.
In a small bowl, stir together the brown sugar, cinnamon and pecans.
Sprinkle half of this mixture over the batter in the pan.
Spoon remaining batter over the top, and then sprinkle the remaining pecan mixture over.

Bake for 55 to 60 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a knife inserted into the crown of the cake comes out clean.

Cool in the pan over a wire rack.

My notes on that.

• Start checking at about 45 minutes. This is better a bit undercooked than a bit overcooked.
• You may want to cover it with foil the last 10 minutes or so, it can get too brown on top before it’s done.
• How the !@#$ do you measure out 1 5/8ths cups of flour?

Owen and I stopped at the McDonald’s in Ligonier on the way home. Owen got a sausage biscuit, I got a diet Coke and hash browns. We were both Very Happy.