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Sour Cream Streusel Coffee Cake
From: tww
Newsgroup: rec.food.recipes
Date: 12-30-95

Here’s my favorite coffeecake recipe. It makes a lot and I always seem to get asked for the recipe. You can exclude the fruit if desired, just put crumbs in the center layer.

Topping:
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup oatmeal
1 teas cinnamon
1/2 cup butter, chilled and cut into pieces
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Fruit:
1 bag frozen (unsweetened) blueberries (drained and rinsed well)
OR 1 pint fresh blueberries
OR 3 fresh apples (peeled and sliced)

Cake:
2 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
2 cups sour cream
2 tsp. vanilla
3 1/3 cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9x13 pan.

Topping:
Mix together brown sugar, oatmeal and cinnamon. Using fingers, mix in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in nuts. Set aside.

Cake:
Using electric mixer, cream sugar and oil in large bowl. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in sour cream and vanilla. Add flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt and mix to combine.

Spoon half of batter into prepared pan.
Cover with fruit layer.
Sprinkle half of topping over fruit.
Put remaining batter over topping.
Sprinkle remaining topping evenly over cake.
Bake until tester inserted into center of cake comes out clean, about 50 minutes.
Cool 30 minutes. Cut into squares and serve.