Darlin's Coffee Cake

This was a favorite of mine! It was my grandmother’s recipe for her Coffee Cake.

Ingredients

  • • 3 ½ cups of sifted plain flour
  • • 1 ½ tsp. of baking powder
  • • 1 ½ tsp. of baking soda
  • • ½ tsp. of salt
  • • ¾ cup of softened margarine
  • • 1 ½ cups of sugar
  • • 3 eggs
  • • 1 ½ cups of sour cream
  • • ½ cup of beer
  • • 1 ½ tsp. of vanilla
  • Filling
  • • ½ cup of sugar
  • • 2 tsp. of cinnamon
  • • 2/3 cup of chopped nuts (pecans or walnuts

Instructions

  1. 1. Preheat oven to 350
    2. Grease and flour a bunt pan
    3. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt
    4. In a separate bowl, cream the margarine and sugar
    5. Add eggs, sour cream, beer, and vanilla to the sugar mixture
    6. Stir or beat vigorously for two minutes
    7. Add dry ingredients gradually, mixing until well blended
    8. In another bowl, mix the filling items together
    9. Pour 1/3 batter into the bunt pan, then sprinkle with 1/3 of the filling
    10. Add the rest of the batter and filling by thirds, so that the last third of the filling tops the cake
    11. Bake at 350 for 1 hour or until cakes tests done
    12. Cool in pan 15 minutes before inverting onto a cooling rack

Yields = 1 bunt cake