Coffee Cake with Pecan, Brown Sugar, & Cinnamon Filling

Craving the Starbucks coffee cake? Well make it at home now. :)

Ingredients:

Cake:

• 1 Cup of butter, room temperature (important to be room temp)

• 3 Cups of sugar

• 6 eggs, room temperature

• 1/4 teaspoon salt

• 1/4 teaspoon soda

• 3 cups flour

• 1 cup sour cream

• 1 teaspoon vanilla

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Filling:

• 2 cups of chopped pecans

• 8 tablespoons of dark brown sugar

• 4 teaspoons of cinnamon

Steps:

Cake:

1. Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.

2. Mix together salt, soda, and flour together

3. Sift dry ingredients 3 times and leave to the side

4. In a separate bowl, cream the butter and sugar by using an electric whisker

5. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each

6. Add the sour cream and flour mixture -- Alternating and ending with flour mixture (flour, sour cream, flour, sour cream, flour)

7. Add vanilla

8. Grease tube pan or bundt pan

9. Mix all ingredients for fillings in a medium sized bowl, and sprinkle a small amount on the bottom of the pan

10. Add 1/2 of batter on top

11. Sprinkle more topping

12. Then add the remaining batter and sprinkle the rest of the topping

13. Bake for 1.5 hours. Do NOT open the oven for the first hour.

*Side note, if you like your cakes sweeter, go ahead and add about 1/2 more sugar in the beginning.*

This cake will last you about a week long outside. I personally enjoy the cake after it has been warmed up, but tastes good at room temperature too :) Enjoy with a cup of coffee!