Apple Streusel Coffee Cake

Apple Streusel Coffee Cake

Serves 12

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
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
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Directions
  1. In a small mixing bowl, combine brown sugar, pecans and cinnamon; set topping aside.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, beat softened butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla with an electric mixer on medium speed for 2 min.
  3. 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.
  4. Fold apples into batter.
  5. Preheat oven to 350°.
  6. Spray two 9" round cake pans with nonstick cooking spray; line the bottoms only with parchment paper.
  7. Divide ½ the batter between cake pans; sprinkle evenly with ½ the brown sugar mixture.
  8. Repeat with remaining batter and topping.
  9. Sprinkle cold butter pieces over top of cakes.
  10. Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean (40-45 min.).
  11. Remove cakes from oven; cool slightly in pans.
  12. In a small mixing bowl, whisk together confectioners' sugar and syrup.
  13. 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.

Variation: View our recipe for Berry Streusel Coffee Cake.