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Lemon Streusel Coffee Cake

This recipe started life as a KAF recipe and in April 2019 I adjusted it slightly and fell in love with this cake and then seemingly lost the recipe... Nevermore! Here it is for our use going forward.
5 from 1 vote
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Course Breakfast, Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 12 Serviings
Calories 424 kcal

Equipment

  • Kitchenaid Mixer
  • 9X13 Baking Pan
  • Handheld Citrus Juicer
  • Microplaner

Ingredients
  

Streusel

  • ¾ C All Purpose Flour (KAF) - didn't weigh it...
  • ½ C Brown Sugar
  • ¼ tsp Cinnamon - heaping !
  • pinch Salt
  • 6 Tbl Butter - COLD - cut into ½" pieces
  • ¾ C Old Fashioned Oats
  • Lemons - Zested

Cake - Dry Ingredients

  • 241 g All Purpose Flour (KAF) - Weigh it if you can - else it's about 1 3/4 C the way I measure.
  • 2 tsp Baking Powder
  • 1 tsp Cinnamon
  • ½ tsp Salt
  • 3 Lemons - Zested

Cake - Wet Ingredients

  • 4 Tbl Unsalted Butter - Room Temperature
  • 1/4 C Vegetable Oil
  • 1 C Sugar
  • 3 Large Eggs - Room Temperature
  • 1 C Sour Cream or Plain Greek Yogurt - I use LF Sour Cream b/c that's what I always have

Lemon Glaze

  • ½ C Powdered Sugar
  • 1 Tbl Lemon Juice

Instructions
 

  • Get out and organize all of your ingredients.
  • Grease 9X13 pan and set aside.
  • Preheat your oven to 350℉.

Make the Streusel

  • Stir together the dry ingredients (Flour / Sugar / Cinnamon / Salt)
  • Using a pastry cutter - cut in the cold butter.
  • Stir in the Oats and the Lemon Zest.
  • Set Streusel aside.

Prepare the Cake

  • Mix the Dry ingredients together in a bowl and set aside.
  • In your mixer - blend the oil and the room temp butter till well combined.
  • Add in the sugar and whip for a while - trying to get a whippy texture. This mixture will not be so light and creamy as it is part oil - and not the typical cake butter / sugar creaming... Try to get air into the mixture, though.
  • Add the eggs one at a time, mixing between each - scraping the bowl down as needed.
  • Add the sour cream - scraping the bowl down as needed.
  • Add the dry ingredients, stirring just until incorporated. (Don't over mix - you don't want the flour to develop gluten.)
  • Layer the cake - first layer 1/2 of the batter. Dollop the cake batter into the pan and then carefully spread as evenly as you can.
  • Second layer - is a bit less than 1/2 of the streusel. (Putting more streusel makes it hard to cover with the remaining batter.)
  • Third layer - is the last of the cake batter - again dollop the cake batter around and then carefully spread. It will be a bit tricky since the streusel is going to stick and make it harder to cover readily.
  • Fourth / top layer - is the remaining streusel.
  • Bake at 350℉ for 29 or 30 minutes in your 9X13.

Make the Glaze

  • Mix up lemon juice and powdered sugar. After you get the consistency you want - put the glaze into a zip lock bag and set aside.
  • After the cake has totally cooled, cut a corner off your zip lock bag of glaze and drizzle the glaze on the cake.
  • Serve the cake to friends and family !

Notes

Hubster says, this is definitely good.  If someone brought this to our house for dessert, I might ask for seconds.  :) 
You can have it for dessert, or with your coffee...in the AM.  

Nutrition

Calories: 424kcalCarbohydrates: 61gProtein: 6gFat: 19gSaturated Fat: 9gPolyunsaturated Fat: 4gMonounsaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 0.4gCholesterol: 80mgSodium: 254mgPotassium: 180mgFiber: 3gSugar: 32gVitamin A: 448IUVitamin C: 22mgCalcium: 104mgIron: 2mg
Keyword Cake, fresh lemons, Lemon, Streusel
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