Apple Sour Cream Cake

5 from 5 vote

Apple Sour Cream Cake is just what you need to make when its apple season! A fluffy and soft coffee cake with a surprise layer of apples and a crunchy almond cinnamon sugar topping.

Prep Time10

Cook Time45

Total Time55

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: apples, coffee cake

Servings: slices

Calories: 229kcal

Author: Lora

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
8 tablespoons unsalted butter at room temperature
1 cups plus 2 Tablespoons sugar divided
2 large eggs at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup sour cream at room temperature
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 apple peeled, cored and sliced in thin pieces
½ cup chopped almonds or pecans

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter a springform pan and line the bottom with a circle of parchment paper.
In a medium bowl, sift together the flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
Mix together in a small bowl 1 teaspoon cinnamon and 1 Tablespoon sugar (you could use less sugar), set aside.
Mix together in another small bowl the almonds, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, and 1 tablespoon of the sugar in a bowl and set aside.
Beat butter and 1 cup sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until light and fluffy.
Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition. Beat in the vanilla.
Add flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with sour cream, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition.
Pour 1/2 of batter into pan. Smooth out with a rubber spatula.
Layer on the sliced apples in a concentric circle making sure the apples don’t touch the edge of the pan and toss on the first cinnamon sugar mixture.
Spread remaining batter on top and smooth out with a rubber spatula; sprinkle with remaining cinnamon sugar and almonds.
Bake until a skewer inserted in center comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack 15 minutes. Invert onto wire rack; let cool completely.

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