Streusel Make (Coffee Cake)
A recipe for a coffee cake with a streusel topping, featuring walnuts, sugar, and cinnamon. The original recipe uses the term 'Streisel Make'. Originally from Aunt Ida.
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Ingredients
- ●1/2 lb (225g) butter
- ●1 1/2 cups (360ml) sugar
- ●4 eggs
- ●4 cups (960ml) flour
- ●2 tsp (10ml) baking powder
- ●1 tsp (5ml) vanilla
- ●1 cup (240ml) sour cream
- ●1 lb (455g) walnuts
- ●Sugar (for streusel)
- ●Cinnamon (for streusel)
Instructions
- 1
Cream together butter, 1 1/2 cups sugar, and eggs.
- 2
Add flour, baking powder, vanilla, and sour cream to the creamed mixture and mix well to form the batter.
- 3
Prepare a mixture of walnuts, sugar, and cinnamon for the streusel.
- 4
Pour half of the batter into a baking pan.
- 5
Sprinkle some of the walnut, sugar, and cinnamon mixture onto the batter.
- 6
Pour the rest of the remaining batter over the streusel layer.
- 7
Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 1 hour.
Notes
- ●You can make a Pareve version of the cake by using non-dairy whipping cream (one small container) instead of the sour cream, and margarine instead of the butter.
- ●Be careful when filling the molds to bake the cake — this cake expands a lot while baking and has often overflowed and spilled onto the floor of the oven.
- ●The walnut, sugar, and cinnamon mixture can be prepared separately in a pull-cord chopper: add the whole nuts with the sugar and cinnamon, then powder the nuts using the chopper.
- ●The family has never put fruit on top of this cake — neither the baker, Savta, Nana, Uncle David, nor Aunt Ida ever added fruit as a topping.
- ●This recipe originally comes from Aunt Ida (Nana's sister). At the wedding of Ida to Benny, their common grandmother Bubbe Charna met Nana and told her she had a boy for her — and that is how the family started and grew. (Ida's husband, Uncle Benny, was a cousin of Nana's husband, Grandpa Charlie/Shepsa.)