Sour Cream Coffee Cake Jump To Recipe This post may contain affiliate links.Please read my disclosure policy.My favorite sour cream coffee cake recipe is perfectly soft and fluffy, layered with cinnamon sugar, and always so delicious.

I realized the other day that it has been two decades since my college roommate, Natalie, first taught me how to make her family’s famous sour cream coffee cake.No idea how that’s even possible, because it feels like just yesterday that we were baking up a storm together in our tiny college kitchen.But all of these years later — and countless batches of coffee cake later — I have to say that this nostalgic recipe remains one of our family’s all-time favorites.

♡ It features a simple batter made with basic pantry ingredients and reduced-fat sour cream, whose tangy flavor perfectly balances the sweetness here and helps the cake bake up to be incredibly moist.Then in between the layers of cake, we’ll add in a crunchy sprinkling of cinnamon sugar (plus some chopped nuts, if you’d like).And then for one final layer of indulgence, I always love drizzling a quick 2-ingredient glaze on top.

This cake is guaranteed to make your home smell absolutely heavenly as it’s baking up in the oven.And once it’s sliced served up nice and warm with a hot cup of coffee on a lazy weekend morning, well, I don’t know if there’s a more delicious way to start the day.Let’s bake up some coffee cake together, friends

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