Sour Cream Coffeecake Bundt
You guys remember Mary from The Food Librarian, right? She was featured on Friday Favs a couple months ago. You might remember the Coffee Cake Bundt that she made for her guest post. It’s actually kind of funny that I made a Coffee Cake Bundt for her I Like Big Bundts. I hadn’t even realized that until I sat down to write this post.
But back to the bundts. You see, Mary is obsessed with bundts. She has bundt pans in every shape and size. For the third year in a row now, Mary has been featuring a different bundt cake recipe for the 30 days leading up the November 15th. Why November 15th? Because tomorrow is National Bundt Day!
I love seeing the bundt cake recipes come up every day. And every time I see that “I Like Big Bundts” logo (which was designed by justJENN), I start singing Sir Mixalot. It’s just so dang catchy!
This Coffecake Bundt was delicious. Although I have a major complaint about the recipe. See all that delicious topping in the pan there? Well it didn’t stick to the cake. So when it got flipped over to be de-bundted, about 90% of that topping just spilled onto the table. If I were to make it again, I’d stir the topping into the last cup or so of batter so that it would actually stick.
I am glad that I was able to finally participate in I Like Big Bundts. For the longest time, I didn’t have a bundt pan because I simply couldn’t find anywhere to put one in my kitchen. Then my good friend Aimee gave me one for the big 3-0 and we made room for this beauty! I can’t wait to start using it more.
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Sour Cream Coffeecake Bundt
Ingredients:
For the Streusel
3/4 cup flour
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 Tbsp cinnamon
2 Tbsp cold unsalted butter
1 cup pecans, chopped
For the Cake
4 large eggs
1 1/2 cup sour cream
1 Tbsp vanilla
2 1/4 cups flour
1 1/4 cups sugar
1 Tbsp baking powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, softened but still cool, cut into 1 inch cubes
Directions:
For the Streusel
Process the flour, granulated sugar, 1/4 cup of the brown sugar, and the cinnamon in a food processor. Transfer 1 1/4 cups of this mixture to a small bowl and stir in the remaining 1/4 cup brown sugar; set aside.
Add the butter and pecans to the remainig dry ingredients in the food processor bowl. Process the mixture until the nuts and butter have been broken down into small pieces, about ten pulses. Set aside.
For the Cake
Adjust an oven rack to the lowest position and heat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a tube pan. Combine the eggs, 1 cup of the sour cream, and the vanilla in a medium bowl. In the bowl of a standing mixer, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt at low speed, about 30 seconds. Add the butter and remaining 1/2 cup sour cream and mix at low speed until the dry ingredients are moistened. Increase to medium speed and beat 30 seconds.
Scrape down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula. Decrease the mixer speed to medium low and slowly incorporate the egg mixture in 3 additions, beating for 20 seconds after each addition and scraping the sides of the bowl as necessary. Increase the speed to medium-high and beat for 1 minute.
Add 2 cups of the batter to the prepared pan. With an offset spatula or rubber spatula, smooth out the surface of the batter. Sprinkle with 3/4 cup of the streusel filling. Drop 2 cups o the batter over the struesel, spread evenly, and then add the remaining struesel filling. Top with the remaining batter and then the streusel topping (with butter and nuts).
Bake for 50 to 60 minutes. Cool cake for 30 minutes, then invert and remove from tube pan.. Cool or 2 more hours, then serve.
Recipe from Honey and Butter
I am Jen the Beantown Baker. Engineer by day and baking maven by night. Hubby serves as my #1 fan and official taste tester. We got hitched back in 2006. Barefoot. In the sand. With the waves crashing behind us. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. 
OMG, I am in love with these cupcakes! They’re so awesome! I love HP, and I made owl cupcakes when the movie came out. I might need to give these a try before going to see the IMAX 3D movie.
How cute are those?! And i was wondering how you got the lettering so perfect – thanks for the step-by-step. Lol – I just dragged DH to the Harry Potter exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry – I’m sure he’ll be happy when the final movie comes out and he doesn’t have to hear about it anymore!
Great job, how lucky are your friends?
I’m so jealous! My two sisters are going to the exhibit this weekend. I thought about flying to Chicago to join them. Luckily I found out the exhibit is coming here in October. Whew!
These look fabulous! You did such a great job on them!
WOW JEN!! Those are fantastic!! Better than professional! Seriously, what talent you have to make those! 🙂
Aw thanks Katie – you’re making me blush.
I hate when cupcakes do that to me too. Instead of baking up they bake out! 🙁
Love your Harry Potter cupcake toppers! Very cute and creative!
~ingrid
Hi Jen! A friend of mine forwarded me your page for HP Cupcakes and I just wanted to drop in and say that I think they’re awesome and I want to run home now and try to create some fun hp themed cakes! I had done some in the past–cauldron cakes if you will, by buying mini cauldrons and cutting the bottom off so the tops sat just on the cakes and then used a bit of green frosting on the inside. You should join up with the HP-MA crew! We’ve been organizing some meet-ups for Boston Fans!
Sounds awesome Manda.
Oh my goodness, what adorable little cupcakes!
So so cute! And yeah, those “HPs” must have taken FOREVER. I have a fabulous vanilla cupcake recipe that never fails me here: http://annies-eats.com/2008/07/18/vanilla-cupcakes/. Also, I recently made Dorie’s perfect party cake into cupcakes and had great results with that as well.
I love your HP cupcakes! I too am a huge Harry Potter fan but I have to admit, I don’t think I’d be patient enough to make cupcakes and toppings as cute as yours!
These are so awesome!! I wish I would have seen them and did some of these with the HP cake I did!!