Grammy's Kitchen · Coffee Cake · Sour Cream Coffee Cake (with Crumb Topping)
One of 78 coffee cake recipes we measured
from sallysbakingaddiction.com
308 cooks on sallysbakingaddiction.com rate it 4.8★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 78.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 76% | 63% |
| total sugar | 155% | 109% |
| brown sugar share of total sugar | 33% | 42% |
| egg | 38% | 30% |
| leavener | 2% | 2% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| liquid | 69% | 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.
| 135 g | 2/3 cup (135g) packed dark or light brown sugar |
| 95 g | 3/4 cup (95g) all-purpose flour (spooned & leveled) |
| 7 g | 2 and 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon |
| 85 g | 6 Tablespoons (85g) unsalted butter, cold and cubed |
| 166 g | 1 and 1/3 cups (166g) all-purpose flour (spooned & leveled) |
| 4 g | 1 teaspoon baking powder |
| 1 g | 1/4 teaspoon baking soda |
| 2 g | 1/4 teaspoon salt |
| 113 g | 1/2 cup (8 Tbsp; 113g) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature |
| 150 g | 3/4 cup (150g) granulated sugar |
| 100 g | 2 large eggs, at room temperature |
| 9 g | 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract |
| 120 g | 1/2 cup (120g) full-fat sour cream, at room temperature* |
| 30 g | 2 Tablespoons (30ml) milk (any kind, dairy or nondairy, is fine) |
| 120 g | 1 cup (120g) confectioners’ sugar, sifted |
| 2 g | 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract |
| 30 g | 2 Tablespoons (30ml) heavy cream or milk |
Method: 9 steps, published by sallysbakingaddiction.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Baked this with my five year old, and she had a blast. Recipe was easy to follow, and even though my Little Baker has a tendency to overmix, the cake turned out wonderfully. Checked doneness at 35 minutes, done perfectly at 45 minutes exactly. Parchment in the” — a cook, 5.0★