Walnut Sour Cream Coffee Cake

I had to buy a container of sour cream for a dinner we had last week. I had leftover sour cream and some walnuts in the pantry. Sounds like a Walnut Sour Cream Coffee Cake to me.

I found a super-easy recipe on Allrecipes. This could not be easier. The hardest part was deciding on what baking pan to use. I made 1/2 the original recipe.

This is the recipe cut in half-

Ingredients- 1/2 cup white sugar

1/4 cup butter

1 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 (8-ounce) container reduced-fat sour cream

1 egg, beaten

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt (Optional)

1/4 cup chopped walnuts

1/4 cup white sugar

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Method-

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

Grease a 8 x 8-inch pan.

Beat 1/2 cup sugar and butter with an electric mixer in a large bowl until light and fluffy.

Add flour, sour cream, eggs, vanilla, baking powder, baking soda, and salt; continue beating until ingredients integrate into a batter.

Mix walnuts, 1/2 cup sugar, and ground cinnamon in a separate bowl.

Pour about half the batter into the prepared pan. Sprinkle about half the walnut topping over the batter and top with remaining batter.

Finish by sprinkling remaining topping over the batter.

Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 40 minutes.

Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.