Apple Nut Sour Cream Coffee Cake

Apple Nut Sour Cream Coffee Cake

Apple Nut Sour Cream Coffee Cake


45 minutes

Details
  • Serving Size:   5
  • Weight Watchers:   40 Points
Cuisine
  • morning meal
  • dessert
  • brunch
  • breakfast
Ingredients
  • Small amount of vegetable shortening and flour for preparing pan
  • 1 cup toasted walnuts or pecans, coarsely chopped
  • 1/3 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
  • ¼ cup unsalted butter, chilled
  • 2 Bosc or Bartlett pears (about 2 cups), peeled, cored, and coarsely chopped
  • 2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • 1¾ cups all-purpose flour
  • ¾ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ½ cup unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1 cup sour cream 
Instructions

Ingredients

Small amount of vegetable shortening and flour for preparing pan

Topping

cup toasted walnuts or pecans, coarsely chopped

/3 cup firmly packed light brown sugar

teaspoon ground cinnamon

In a small mixing bowl, combine nuts, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Set aside.

Filling

/3 cup all-purpose flour

¼ cup unsalted butter, chilled

Bosc or Bartlett pears (about 2 cups), peeled, cored, and coarsely chopped

teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice

In a medium mixing bowl, combine 1/3 cup flour and ¼ cup butter. With a

pastry blender or two knives, cut butter into flour until the mixture

resembles coarse crumbs.

Add ¾ cup of the topping nut mixture; stir to

mix. Set aside.

Toss pears with lemon juice. Set aside.

Batter

¾ cups all-purpose flour

¾ teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon baking soda

¼ teaspoon salt

½ cup unsalted butter, room temperature

cup granulated sugar

large eggs

teaspoon pure vanilla extract

cup sour cream 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare one 9x9x2 inch square pan or 9

inch round springform pan; lightly grease the pan with shortening and

dust with flour. Tip: to make baked cake easier to remove from pan,

lightly grease the pan, line the bottom with parchment paper, and then

lightly grease the top of the parchment paper and dust the pan with

flour.

In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt; sift or whisk together to mix. Set aside.

In a large bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

Tip: To cream, start by placing the butter in the bowl, with an

electric mixer on medium speed begin by beating the butter about 1

minute until it is smooth and light in color.

With the mixer

still on medium speed, slowly add the sugar to the butter, either one

tablespoon at a time, or in a very slow steady stream, taking from 3 to 5

minutes to add all of the sugar, and beating until the butter and sugar

are fully incorporated and the mixture is a light, or pale yellow

color, with a fluffy texture. While adding the sugar, stop the mixer

occasionally to scrape the mixture off the paddle and scrape down the

sides and bottom of the bowl with a rubber spatula so the mixture blends

evenly.

Add eggs one at a time, beating until thoroughly mixed.

Add the vanilla along with the last egg.

Tip: For each egg, crack the egg into a small bowl and whisk with a

fork to thoroughly break up the egg before adding to the creamed

mixture. Start with the mixer on low speed so the liquid from the egg

doesn’t splatter, once the egg is partially mixed increase the speed to

medium. Each egg should be fully incorporated into the mixture before

adding the next egg, taking about one minute to blend in each egg.

With the mixer on low speed, add about ½ of the flour mixture, mix just

until the flour is almost completely blended. Scrape the bowl down, and

add the sour cream, blending just until mixed. Scrape the bowl down

again and then add the remaining ½ flour mixture, mix just until

blended, scraping down the side of the bowl as needed.

Spread

two-thirds of the batter in the prepared pan.

Sprinkle the filling

mixture over the batter.

Layer pears on top of the filling. Gently

spread the remaining batter over the pears.

Sprinkle the topping mixture

over the batter.

Bake

Bake 60 minutes, or until a long

toothpick, wooden skewer, or cake tester inserted in the center comes

out clean. Cool on a wire cooling rack for 20 minutes then remove cake

from pan and finish cooling on wire rack. If pan was lined with

parchment paper, grab the top edges of the parchment paper and lift cake

from pan.

Remove parchment paper and discard. If using a springform

pan, remove pan from oven and let cool about 15 minutes. Loosen side of

pan, then grabbing the top edges of the parchment paper, lift cake from

pan and finish cooling on wire rack.

Remove parchment paper and discard.

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