Grandmother’s Christmas Coffee Cake
It’s beginning to look like Christmas – the mantle is decorated, the snowman wreath is on the front door, and the stockings are up. That means it is time for my Grandmother’s Christmas Coffee Cake which can be found coming out of my oven through Valentine’s Day. A teacher’s gift, a Christmas morning staple, and some warm tangible love for my boys’ tummies – that’s Grandmother’s Christmas Coffee Cake.
Cream 1 Stick Butter and 1/2 Cup Butter-flavored Crisco Baking Stick
Add 1 and 1/2 Cup Sugar
Blend two together until creamy
Add the following mixture 1/3 at a time to the creamy mixture: 2 Cups Sifted Flour, 1 tsp. Baking Powder, 1/2 tsp. Baking Soda.
When mixed, add 3 well-beaten eggs (room temperature)
Next, add 1 Cup Sour Cream
Make a 1 tsp. cinnamon/3 tbsp. sugar mixture. Line 2 loaf pans with wax paper and scoop 1/4 + 1/4 of mixture into the bottom of each loaf. Sprinkle sugar mixture liberally over the batter. Scoop the remaining 1/4 + 1/4 into the loafs, topping of with liberal sprinkling of sugar mixture.
The recipe originally called for an 8-inch bundt cake or tube cake pan, but they were too big for basket gifts and teacher gifts, so for gifts, I use loaf pans (one recipe makes 2 coffee cakes in loaf pans). They freeze great, too, so you can make bunch and store for winter usage!
Bake at 350° for one hour.
From my house to yours, a very Merry Christmas – may this recipe bring to your house the smiles it brings to mine!
Oh Wow! Coffee cake is one of my very favorite cakes. Thanks for sharing this recipe.
Can I bake just one and refrigerate the rest of the batter until the bread is cool? I only have one loaf pan 🙁
Hi Jessica,
That I’m not sure of; however, you can use a bundt pan. It originally called for a bundt pan, but for gift-giving, like teachers and stuff, the loafs are the right size. I would recommend halfing the recipe and then you wouldn’t have to risk the mixture losing it’s rising ability.
Let me know what you do?
Merry Christmas!
Maryleigh
Oh, that looks delicious! Love what you’ve done with that hurricane vase on your mantle, so pretty.
Oh boy! I love coffee cake and this recipe looks amazing!!! I will have to give it a try!
BTW, you have a blog award over at my place!
this looks yummy! I have been looking for a new coffee cake recipe…i think i will try it tomorrow!
Thanks for sharing
That looks like a wonderful recipe and I might have to give this one a try this Christmas!!
Yum! I’m going to try this! Love the mantle!
Oh yummy! I love recipes passed down from grandmothers… they are always so good!
Blessings,
Sasha
Here is what I decided to try: I am going to buy those mini loaf pans at WM (the disposable kind) and make ten of them. Then, with the extra batter, I will use my bread pan or bunt pan or whatever I think will fit best and bake the rest for me!
I’ll post a picture and let you know how it turns out.
This looks so yummy – now am craving some @ 11pm!
Yummy, pity it’s too hot here in Australia to do any baking today!
I’ll save it for another day.
This looks awesome!
oooh thank you for sharing this!!!!! (stopping over from SITS!)
Yum Yum yum!!!!! This will be served at my house soon!!!!!
Looks wonderful! Stopping by from SITS.
That cake just screams “Merry Christmas!”
I might try this…it looks delish…problem is I don’t bake very well. Love your blog.
Mary
I’m going to print this out right now and try it during my holiday vacation.
Thanks!
yum
I’m going to try this, it sounds delicious! I love grandma recipes, shame mine don’t cook anything except roast dinner!
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Oh my! That looks yummy!!! I love a good coffee cake. Thanks for sharing! (Stopping by from SITS)
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Yum! I haven’t had coffee cake for 20 years, I bet! (and I’m not even 30…yet.)
This sounds so simple and looks so good! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
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I love coffee cake, especially on mornings like Christmas. Thanks for sharing your recipe…it looks wonderful!
Ohhh, Yummm!
My Tummy thanks you! My hiney? Not so much.
;o)
Love, Love, Love your mantle. So gorgeous! Stopping by from SITS!
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This recipe is JUST in time for this year’s holiday!! LOL!! YUMMY!! Thanks for sharing!!
Drinking coffee, completely surrounded by no coffee cake. I have written this down and will no longer have to wish for a solution to my cakelessness.
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