Buttery Cream Cheese Coffee Cake

Mmmmmmmmm.

This coffee cake was delicious.

We could end the post right there.

There’s not much more to say about this cake but that it’s really good.

This cake makes you want to call in sick to work, and just spend the day on the couch with cake.  We didn’t, but oh, oh the temptation!  Maybe it’s the buttery cake and cream cheese combination or maybe it’s the fact that we like eating cake for breakfast, but it just makes us want to indulge in every other part of our lives.

This cake is moist, rich, tangy, and just plain good. It is pretty simple to put together. This is the cake you want to make if you are having company over for coffee.

Thank the Lord that Lisa had lots of company last weekend because they ate it all up for us!

We highly recommend this recipe and will be making it again and again.

Here’s the recipe:

Ingredients

CAKE

• 1 cup butter


• 1 cup sugar


• 2 eggs


• 1/4 cup sour cream


• 2 cups flour


• 2 teaspoons baking powder


• 1/2 teaspoon salt

FILLING

• 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened


• 1 egg yolk


• 1 cup sugar


• 1 teaspoon vanilla

TOPPING

• 1/2 cup brown sugar


• 1 cup flour


• 1/2 cup butter (semi-soft)

Directions:

Set oven to 350 degrees (oven rack set to second-lowest position). Grease an 11 x 7-inch baking pan. Cream butter with sugar (about 3-4 minutes), add in eggs and sour cream; beat well (about another 3 minutes). In a bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and salt.Add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture; beat well until combined (batter will be thick). Spread more than half of the batter in the prepared baking pan. (The layer is really thin. Wetting your fingertips to spread out the batter helps). In another bowl, cream together all filling ingredients, then carefully spread over the cake batter. Spoon the remaining cake batter over the top of the cheese mixture (it doesn’t have to cover the cake batter completely, I just dot tablespoonfuls over the batter). For the topping  mix all ingredients in a food processor, and sprinkle over cake. Bake for about 50-55 minutes or until middle feels set and not jiggly.