Cooking & Baking

with an egg on top

low-fat strawberry yogurt


coffee


Today I am baking this coffee cake for a family event we are having tomorrow--our annual family bridge tournament.

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/trisha-yearwood/sour-cream-coffee-cake-2159946

It's a pretty good recipe, and I encourage you all to try it. Just some notes of things that I do a little differently than the directions:

1) Not sure if it's my oven, or the pan I'm using, or maybe both, but I found that the cook time on this is too much. I advise checking the doneness at around 40 minutes.

2) I found that if I use all the streusel and all the glaze, the cake is too sweet for my taste. About 1/2 of each turns out okay for me.

3) I like to add about a tablespoon of orange zest to the cake batter. With the brown sugar and nuts in the streusel, I find that a kiss of orange flavor is AWESOME.