Streusel Coffee Cake
A delicious German delicacy for your delight.
Ingredients
- Flour 1 ¾ cups
- Baking powder 1 tsp
- Baking soda ½ tsp
- Sugar 2/3 cup (original recipe has 3/4 cup)
- Eggs 2 / large
- Vanilla Essence 1 tsp
- Yogurt 4 tbsp
- Cream 2 tbsp (25% fat)
- Juice of ½ lime
- Zest of 1 orange
- Flour 1 tbsp
- Brown sugar ¼ cup
- Toasted walnuts ½ cup (Toasted in oven for 8-10minutes. Keep an eye on them or they will brown too fast & burn).
- Regular chocolate chips ½ cup (I used Ghirardelli bittersweet)
- Mini chocolate chips ½ cup
Method
- Line & grease & dust the bottom of a 9 spring form baking tin. Grease and dust the sides.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C.
- Prepare the streusel by mixing the 1 tbsp of flour + brown sugar + toasted walnuts in a bowl. Divide into 2; mix big chocolate chips in one, and the mini chips in the other. (Use only 1 size/variety of chips if you like.)
- Stir together the flour + baking powder + baking soda in a bowl.
- Mix the yogurt + cream + lime juice in a small bowl. (You can use sour cream instead)
- Beat the butter + sugar until light.
- Beat in the eggs one by one, and then the vanilla essence + orange zest.
- Beat in the 1/3 of the flour mixture; then 1/3 of the yogurt/cream mixture. Repeat twice & beat until just mixed in properly.
- Put half the batter in the tin; level out. Sprinkle the half streusel mix with the regular Ghirardelli chips evenly over this.
- Top with the remaining batter; then sprinkle the other half of the streusel mix evenly.
- Bake for approximately 60 minutes/ till done.
- Leave to cool in tin on rack for 10 minutes, and then remove the sides.
- I took the bottom lining parchment off about an hour later; peeled it off carefully as I couldn’t invert the cake, else the topping may have fallen off.
- Serve warm as it is or with whipped cream or a dollop of vanilla ice-cream!
