Sour Cream Pecan Coffee Cake With Maple Icing

This moist, soft coffee cake is delicious, starting with the cake, then swirls of cinnamon streusel with the crunch a some pecans. And then topped with even more of the amazing streusel, it gets even better when you drizzle a maple glaze all over the top. When you are looking for a perfect coffee cake this is the recipe to make, the sour makes a tender cake but the best part of this coffee cake is the streusel and the maple drizzled icing. After I came across this and made this for the first time I took a bite and was like omg, I can eat this everyday. This is great for coffee with your friends, to make for the family, parties, holidays. You cant go wrong with this easy and delicious coffee cake..

You can double this recipe just double all ingredients and use a 13x9 inch baking dish, and that is exactly what I do. You can also use almonds or walnuts if you do not like pecans.

• Cake Ingredients:
• 1/2 cup butter, softened 
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1 1/4 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4  teaspoon baking soda
• 1teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
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• For Streusel Topping
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoons butter - chilled
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans
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• Maple Icing:
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons maple syrup
• 2 tablespoon milk

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Spray loaf pan with non sticck cooking spray
3. In a large mixing bowl cream together butter and sugar until fluffy about 3 minutes, add eggs, one at a time. Add vanilla and sour cream. Mix until well combined.
4. In a separate medium sized bowl combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon
5. Add the flour mixture to the butter/sugar mixture and mix until combined.
6. For Streusel topping
7. In medium bowl, combine all ingredients. Mix with pastry cutter or 2 forks until well combined and butter is the size of small crumbly.
8. Pour half the cake batter into the prepared loaf pan and top with half the streusel mixture. Add remaining batter and top with streusel mixture, use all of it..
9. Bake for about 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Completely cool on counter
10. Icing
11. In a medium bowl whisk all of the ingredients together and drizzle over cooled cake. 

recipe slightly adapted and photo source:http://laughingspatula.com/ultimate-sour-cream-coffee-cake/