I've had this little book for years; I love the recipes and the photographs. So for this morning when a brood of writers show up at my doorstep my part of the potluck will be its moist and crumbly Sour Cream and Pecan coffee cake:
Sift 2 cups flour with 1 cup whole wheat flour, 1 tbls baking powder, 1 tsp baking soda, 1/2 tsp salt.
In a separate large mixing bowl cream 1 1/2 cups sugar into 2 sticks soft butter. Add 1 1/2 cups sour cream (or plain yogurt). Beat in, one at a time, 3 eggs. Add 1/2 tsp lemon zest.
Mix in dry ingredients until smooth.
Butter and flour a bundt or tube pan. Pour in half of the batter, shake the pan a bit to even it out.
Mix 1 1/2 cup chopped pecans with 3/4 cup brown sugar and 1 tbls cinnamon. Sprinkle that mixture more or less evenly over the batter. Now fill the tube pan with the remaining half of batter.
Bake 350 degrees 40-55 minutes until cooked through, cool in pan 10 minutes before turning out and sprinkling with powdered sugar, like a light snowfall---and just like a light snowfall, watch it disappear.
Sigh. There were carbs for the taking, and I missed them.
ReplyDeleteAnd potatos with meat in the innards.
ReplyDeleteThe above cake was way yummy, too! Thanks for hosting us and for the cake.
ReplyDeleteThe cake was great, and you house is perfect for our brood. In fact, when you were out of the room, we voted to just show up every Friday.
ReplyDeleteIt's saturday, I come to blogspot and I with pleasure fin another delicious recipe from my friend Desiree. Unfortunately these days I can't cook but arghhhhh I can dream! :D
ReplyDeleteM: we all missed you! AH: I've had those before, but never so fresh from the bakery. Delish! ALB: You're welcome--thanks for all the great coffee and teas! PJ: You ARE the queen of the punchlines. I: And we can dream of Sutri and Rome--
ReplyDeleteI loved the coffeecake! And the company made it even better. Italo, sorry you weren't there but you live so far away. Margaret, we missed you, too.
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry I missed this too (both the event and the coffee cake). I was still in Newport.
ReplyDeleteWere the potato-meat thingies from Porto's?
SC--Ah, yes indeed, you conoisseur of potato meat thingies! Now, if someone could throw us the name.
ReplyDeleteThis looks great - I'm going to try it soon.
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