Grammy's Kitchen · Coffee Cake · Sourdough Coffee Cake
One of 78 coffee cake recipes we measured
from sugarspunrun.com
2 cooks on sugarspunrun.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 78.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 66% | 63% |
| total sugar | 176% | 109% |
| brown sugar share of total sugar | 5% | 42% |
| egg | 17% | 30% |
| leavener | 2% | 2% |
| salt | 2% | 1% |
| liquid | 43% | 69% |
| 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.
| 114 g | 1/2 cup unsalted butter (softened) |
| 250 g | 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar |
| 50 g | 1 large egg (room temperature preferred) |
| 115 g | 1/2 cup sour cream |
| 1/2 cup sourdough discard ((unfed room temperature discard works best)) | |
| 4 g | 1 teaspoon vanilla extract |
| 180 g | 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour |
| 4 g | 1 teaspoon baking powder |
| 1 g | 1/4 teaspoon baking soda |
| 4 g | 3/4 teaspoon table salt |
| 85 g | 6 Tablespoons unsalted butter (melted and cooled until not warm to the touch) |
| 120 g | 1 cup all-purpose flour |
| 150 g | 3/4 cup granulated sugar |
| 27 g | 2 Tablespoons light brown sugar (firmly packed) |
| 8 g | 1 Tablespoon ground cinnamon |
| 2 g | 1/4 teaspoon table salt |
| 100 g | 1/2 cup powdered sugar |
| 13 g | 2-3 teaspoons milk |
Method: 13 steps, published by sugarspunrun.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Wonderful! Super easy recipe that was the hit of our neighborhood coffee hour. I subsituted plain Greek yogurt for the sour cream.” — a cook, 5.0★
“Delicious! This recipe is a keeper!” — a cook, 5.0★