Apple Streusel Coffee Cake
Ingredients
1 cup
brown sugar
1 cup
chopped Kowalski's Honey Toasted Pecans
2 tsp.
Kowalski's Ground Cinnamon
¾ cup
Kowalski's Unsalted Butter, softened
1 ½ cups
sugar
3
Minnesota Grown eggs (such as Kowalski's Organic Eggs)
1 ½ tsp.
Kowalski's Organic Madagascar Vanilla Extract or Vanilla Paste
3 cups
flour
1 ½ tsp.
baking powder
1 ½ tsp.
baking soda
¾ tsp.
kosher salt
1 ½ cups
sour cream
2 cups
peeled, cored, chopped (½") Minnesota Grown baking apples
- cooking spray, for spraying the cake pans
2 tbsp.
Kowalski's Unsalted Butter, cold, cut into small pieces
½ cup
sifted confectioners' sugar
2-3 tbsp.
Kowalski's Minnesota Grown Pure Maple Syrup
Directions
- In a small mixing bowl, combine brown sugar, pecans and cinnamon; set topping aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat softened butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla with an electric mixer on medium speed for 2 min.
- In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, soda and salt. With the mixer on low, alternate between adding the flour mixture and sour cream to the butter mixture, mixing until incorporated.
- Fold apples into batter.
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Spray two 9" round cake pans with cooking spray; line the bottoms only with parchment paper.
- Divide ½ the batter between cake pans; sprinkle evenly with ½ the brown sugar mixture.
- Repeat with remaining batter and topping.
- Sprinkle cold butter pieces over top of cakes.
- Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean (40-45 min.).
- Remove cakes from oven; cool slightly in pans.
- In a small mixing bowl, whisk together confectioners' sugar and syrup.
- Drizzle syrup mixture over cakes; serve warm.
Tasty Tips:
- Make it once, serve it twice! After cake cools completely, wrap well and freeze for up to 3 months. Thaw to room temperature before drizzling with freshly made glaze.
- Excellent varieties of apples for baking include Haralson, Cameo, Cortland, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Jonathan or Rome.
- Minnesota Grown products are fresher by miles, which is why we recommend them in this recipe. When local options are unavailable, fresh products grown or produced elsewhere may be used.
Variation: View our recipe for Berry Streusel Coffee Cake.
