Grammy's Kitchen · Coffee Cake · Sour Cream Coffee Cake with Cinnamon-Walnut
One of 78 coffee cake recipes we measured
It ranks #4 of 78 for rise among the coffee cake recipes we compared. 240 cooks on www.onceuponachef.com rate it 4.7★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 78.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 81% | 63% |
| total sugar | 157% | 119% |
| brown sugar share of total sugar | 9% | 40% |
| egg | 54% | 32% |
| leavener | 1% | 2% |
| salt | 2% | 1% |
| liquid | 81% | 76% |
| mix-ins | 42% | 0% |
| flour strength | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 117 g | 1 heaping cup walnut halves, (roughly chopped) |
| 40 g | 3 tablespoons (packed) light brown sugar |
| 6 g | 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon |
| 280 g | 2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour, (spooned into measuring cup and leveled-off) |
| 2 g | 1/2 teaspoon baking soda |
| 6 g | 1 teaspoon salt |
| 400 g | 2 cups granulated sugar |
| 227 g | 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature |
| 150 g | 3 large eggs |
| 227 g | 1 (8-oz) container full-fat sour cream |
| 6 g | 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract |
Method: 7 steps, published by www.onceuponachef.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Hello Jenn, thank you for this very lovely recipe. I also love your cinnamon swirl apple bread! I added chopped granny smith apples to the batter and buttermilk (I didn't have any sour cream). It's just out the oven. Can't wait to enjoy a slice later on today” — a cook, 5★
“I've made this a few times and very much enjoyed it each time, even though the last time I made it, I forgot to add baking soda until I'd almost completely layered the cake, which necessitated me having to add in baking soda and mix it into a uniform rather th” — a cook, 5★