Flavors of Comfort: Homemade Apple Sour Cream Coffee Cake Recipe

There are many easy coffee cake recipes out there. This is one of my favorites, as we often have just one or two apples left by the end of the week.

If we've had rice and beans or chicken salsa casserole for dinner earlier in the week, we will usually have a little sour cream left over too.

This apple sour cream coffee cake recipe makes good use of those leftovers. And it's easy to whip up and pop in the oven.

I made this apple cake without cinnamon last week, and it was very good. But feel free to add 1 teaspoon of cinnamon to the crumb mixture.

Serve This Coffee Cake for Breakfast

This is a good breakfast coffee cake as it isn't too sweet. Yet it could easily serve as an apple snack cake (cut it into small squares.) To serve it for dessert, warm it up a little and add a dollop of vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.

Use Other Fruit in This Apple Sour Cream Coffee Cake Recipe

It's easy to substitute other fruit for the apples in this coffee cake recipe. Try the following:

• pears
• peaches,
• plums
• 1 ½ cups of blueberries
• ¾ cup of rhubarb
• 1 ¼ cups Saskatoon berries
• 1 ½ cups everbearing raspberries

If you are baking a blueberry sour cream coffee cake or a raspberry sour cream coffee cake, freeze the berries for half an hour.

Sprinkle a little flour with the half-frozen berries to keep them from getting mushy, and coloring the coffee cake purple. It might taste good, but a big purple block may turn off any picky eaters in your family.

This apple sour cream coffee cake recipe marked the first time I used my new silicone bakeware, and I made it in a square 9-inch pan. While I did grease the silicone with butter, I don't think it was needed. The silicone was so flexible it simply peeled away from the cake.

Give this recipe a try. If you make any substitutions and would like to recommend them, drop us a line. Happy Baking!

This apple sour cream coffee cake is a perfect recipe for baking with kids and provides a great way to use up leftovers and experiment with different fruit and flavor combinations.

If you choose to make a Blueberry Sour Cream Coffee Cake, adding 1 tablespoon of lemon juice is a nice touch. This coffee cake also freezes well, and makes a good option for a potluck, church lunch, or to drop off at a neighbor's house.

Related: Cookie Crumb Peach Cobbler

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