This cake was very good. It's a lovely sour cream coffee cake with some wonderful added flavors (orange and vanilla) and a swirl of cinnamon, sugar, chocolate, and, in my case, almonds. The original recipe called for raisins and pecans. I decided to skip the raisins and use almonds because they were in my pantry. It was a good choice.
The batter came together easily. Caitlin put the fear of God in me with her tale of sticking swirl and broken cake. She begged us all to butter andflour the panto within an inch of its life. I did. I was also warned about using too much batter in the beginning, because it doesn't leave enough to cover the second swirl. I was very careful.
Mine baked for exactly one hour. I held my breath as I unmolded it. WHEW! No sticking. (Thanks, Caitlin!) Golden brown and delicious.
My swirls were more layery and not very swirly.
We decided that the swirl on the right looked like it was smiling.
The (very goofy) Girl and Boy were most definitely smiling. Thumbs up!
Truth be told, I have an absolute go-to sour cream Bundt cake that I am required to bring to family meals. This one won't replace it, but I'm glad to have tried it.
13 comments:
Great pics of the girl and boy! And the swirls look teriffic in the cake.
This looks delicious! And I seriously think your swirly smiley face is winking at me.
Yum it looks great..love the picture of the kiddos! I loved this recipe...so so yummy!! It's all ready gone!
Looks great! I did love this one, I made minis and left out the chocolate on the one I was going to eat...oh so good...loved that orange in it.
I love the smiles all around - it's a great-looking cake.
Looks perfect to me! Great swirl! :)
Love the smiley cake and the smiley boy and girl. Adorable! :) Glad you liked this!
I love the smell of the orange in this one. Yours is just beautiful
Love those pics! Glad you loved this cake!
Thanks for baking along with me!
Yum. DJ's dad requires my sour cream coffee cake whenever he's around to help us with house projects. I'm terrible at the swirl, though. It always ends up a stripe.
It does look like it's smiling! I can't remember how I prepped my pan, but thankfully mine didn't stick.
Will you share your 'go to' recipe?
Cute kid pics! Great job not making it stick, mine always does!
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