The Famous Davenport Hotels Coffeecake Recipes

CINNAMON STREUSEL COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Make the streusel topping: Mix together flour, 3/4 cup brown sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, and 1 teaspoon salt. Cut in butter using a pastry cutter or rub in with your fingers until small to medium clumps form. Mix in 1/2 cup pecans. Refrigerate until ready to use.
• Make the streusel center: Mix together remaining 1/4 cup brown sugar, 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon, and 1 cup pecans.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Make the cake: Butter a 9-inch tube pan with a removable bottom. Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, and 1/2 teaspoon salt into a bowl.
• Beat butter and granulated sugar with a mixer on medium speed until pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, then vanilla. Beat in flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating with sour cream, beginning and ending with flour. Continue to beat until well combined.
• Spoon half the batter into pan. Sprinkle streusel center mixture evenly over batter. Top with remaining batter, and spread evenly using an offset spatula. Sprinkle streusel topping mixture evenly over batter.
• Bake until cake is golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 55 minutes. Transfer pan to a wire rack, and let cool completely. Remove cake from pan, and transfer to parchment.
• Make the glaze: Mix together confectioners' sugar and milk. Drizzle over cake, and let drip down sides. Let set for 5 minutes before serving.

THE FAMOUS DAVENPORT HOTEL'S COFFEECAKE RECIPE

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350F. Line 2 cake pans with foil. In a bowl of a standing mixer, or a hand mixer, cream sugar and butter for several minutes until light and fluffy. Blend in the sour cram and vanilla. Blend in eggs,one at a time, stopping often to scrape sides of the bowl.
• Add the cake flour, baking powder and salt. The batter will be quite loose and mellow! Line 2 cake pans with aluminum foil. Divide the batter between cake pans.
• Combine all topping ingredients in a small bowl. Mix. Sprinkle evenly on top of both cake pans. Bake for 20-25 minutes. Until center is done. Immediatly lift cake out of pan, by lifting and pulling up the foil and let cool completely on a wire rack....before carefully peeling back the foil. Dust with powdered sugar...before serving!
• This recipe and picture was in the SPOKESMAN-REVIEW By Heather Lalley staff writer