Incredible Sour Cream Coffee Cake with Ina Garten _ Barefoot Contessa _ Food Network

It's a really moist sour cream cake with a Struss in the middle .

I'm gonna start with 1.5 sticks of butter , 1.5 cups of sugar and I'm gonna cream that together until it's light and fluffy .

And then I'm gonna start on the dry ingredients .

Ok ?

So the first ingredient is cake flour I found is a little lighter and fluffier .

So that's what I use .

2.5 cups of cake flour , two teaspoons of baking powder makes it nice and fluffy .

Half a teaspoon of baking soda .

A participant of salt that together .

I'm gonna add three eggs , some good vanilla really important in this 1.5 teaspoons and one and a quarter cups of sour cream .

This is what makes it really moist one and got it all over the mixer too .

OK .

Now I'm gonna turn it on low , lowest speed and just slowly add all the dry ingredients just with your hand and beat it just until they're really mixed .

Now , for the Strus the good part , so I'm gonna just combine it in a bowl , a quarter of a cup of light brown sugar have a cup of flour .

This is the crumbly part of the and the flavorful part , 1.5 teaspoons of ground cinnamon could have a teaspoon of salt and three tablespoons of butter , which I'm gonna just crumble into the Russel .

Clean hands .

Best tools , sour cream .

I don't know how traditional walnuts are for a Strus cake , but I'm gonna add some because I think it turns up the flavor .

So about three quarters of a cup of proper walnuts , you just buy them already chopped .

But if you don't like walnuts , just leave them that it's still delicious and just crumble all of that together .

OK ?

Now I'm gonna put the cake together , but I've buttered and floured this .

What I'm gonna do is put half the batter in the bottom .

I'm gonna take three quarters of the Strus and just spread it evenly on the top of the batter .

So there's gonna be Strus in the middle of this cake as well as on the top .

I'm gonna take the rest of the batter , put it on top , just sort of place it on top and then I'll smooth it out later and then moist on top .

It's amazing how much this gets really moist and right so into the oven , 350 degrees for 50 to 60 minutes .

And we're gonna have a really good cake .

So my philosophy is too much is never enough .

So I'm gonna add a maple drizzle to this to make it even better .

And it's really easy .

I have a cup of confection of sugar and two tablespoons of maple syrup .

I really like good maple syrup .

Not the stuff that says syrup , like or syrup flavored or it's really maple syrup .

Ok .

That's perfect .

Even better .

Just wanted to drizzle down the side a little bit .

This is actually not about being perfect .

This is about being a little messy .