Sour Cream Coffee Cake

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups of sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups flour sifted
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

For the topping:

• 3/4 cup chopped nuts walnuts or pecans are good
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 cup brown sugar

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350F.

Grease and flour a tube pan.

Blend together butter, sugar, and vanilla, then add the eggs, one at a time.

Mix the flour, salt, and baking powder in another bowl and add to wet ingredients, one spoon at a time, alternating with the sour cream.

Mix together topping ingredients and divide into halves.

Pour about 2/3 of the cake batter into the pan and sprinkle half of the topping mixture over it.

Pour the rest of the batter into the pan and then sprinkle the remaining topping mixture.

Bake about 1 hour and 15 minutes.

Cool before removing from pan.