I love to bake. What can I say? Before going gluten free, we ate lots of baked goods. Slowly, I’ve been coming up with gluten free versions of our old favorites. This gluten free sour cream coffee cake is often requested and can be made into muffins for a nice, on-the-go version.
Gluten Free Sour Cream Coffee Cake Recipe
Ingredients:
Cake:
2 C gluten free flour mix
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 C rapdura (or regular sugar)
1 tsp vanilla
2/3 C butter, melted
2 eggs
1 C sour cream (can used yogurt, but it changes flavor)
Filling/Topping:
1 C nuts (walnuts & pecans are a favorite mix here)
1/4 C rapdura or white sugar
1/4 C brown sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
Icing Drizzle: (These are approximate as I just add sugar until the right consistency)
1-2 Tbsp cream
1/3 C powdered sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla
Directions:
- Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease baking dish.
- Combine dry ingredients in one bowl until well mixed.
- Combine wet ingredients in a different bowl until well mixed.
- Combine wet and dry ingredients. Beat until well mixed. Set aside.
- Place filling ingredients into food processor (or blender). Pulse until it reaches the consistency you desire. (Munchkin doesn’t like chunks of nuts, so I make a fairly smooth mixture.)
- Pour half of your batter into the pan. You will probably need to spread it out as it can be thick (thickness will depend on your flour mix). Sprinkle half of your nut mixture of the batter. Pour/spread the rest of your batter over the nut mixture. Top with the remaining nut mixture.
- Bake at 350 degrees to 45-60 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
- While your cake is baking, make your icing drizzle. Combine the cream and vanilla, slowly add powdered sugar until you reach your desired consistency. (I like mine thinner, so I don’t add as much powdered sugar.)
- Allow cake to cool for a few minutes. Drizzle with icing.
Notes:
- Make this up on Saturday evening for a delicious Sunday morning breakfast.
- You can make these as muffins. Just reduce the cooking time.
- You can use a bundt pan to make this a little fancier. I’ve used bundt pans, loaf pans, brownie pans…
Ingredients
- 2 C gluten free flour mix
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 C rapdura (or regular sugar)
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2/3 C butter, melted
- 2 eggs
- 1 C sour cream (can used yogurt, but it changes flavor)
- 1 C nuts (walnuts & pecans are a favorite mix here)
- 1/4 C rapdura or white sugar
- 1/4 C brown sugar
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1-2 Tbsp cream
- 1/3 C powdered sugar
- 1/4 tsp vanilla
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease baking dish.
- Combine dry ingredients in one bowl until well mixed.
- Combine wet ingredients in a different bowl until well mixed.
- Combine wet and dry ingredients. Beat until well mixed. Set aside.
- Place filling ingredients into food processor (or blender). Pulse until it reaches the consistency you desire. (Munchkin doesn’t like chunks of nuts, so I make a fairly smooth mixture.)
- Pour half of your batter into the pan. You will probably need to spread it out as it can be thick (thickness will depend on your flour mix). Sprinkle half of your nut mixture of the batter. Pour/spread the rest of your batter over the nut mixture. Top with the remaining nut mixture.
- Bake at 350 degrees to 45-60 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
- While your cake is baking, make your icing drizzle. Combine the cream and vanilla, slowly add powdered sugar until you reach your desired consistency. (I like mine thinner, so I don’t add as much powdered sugar.)
- Allow cake to cool for a few minutes. Drizzle with icing.
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i made this today and it was excellent! Thanks for posting the recipe.
You are welcome. I’m glad you liked it. 🙂
Best gluten free recipe i’ve made so far!
What’s in the gluten free ‘flour mix’? I’m new to this g.f. Lifestyle
You can make your own blend or just use a store bought blend. For coffee cake, the Pamela’s baking and pancake mix works nicely.
this recipe is delicious. it’s one of many gluten free desserts I’ve tried making that doesn’t have that “rough or gritty” taste. thank you!
I’m glad that you enjoyed it. 🙂
Could I use a simple buttermilk recipe to substitue for the moistness?
Or add bananas?
Any time you change an ingredient in the recipe, it turns out differently. This particular recipe is a bit forgiving, so it may work.
What size pan do you use for this recipe? I couldn’t find where it said…
I believe when I wrote the recipe that I was using a 1 lb. loaf pan as my every day pan for that recipe. I also use a 9″ square pan or bundt cake pan. I can’t tell you exactly how long to bake as I’m now at high altitude, so my baking times are completely different. I want to say that the muffins should bake for around 25 minutes for regular sized muffins.
I’m sorry that I can’t be more specific, but I hope it helps at least a little.
Delicious coffe cake that the whole family can enjoy! Thanks so much for sharing.
Turned out great. Thanks for the recipe. I added chopped dried pears (the moist kind) to the bottom of the pan before adding the batter and it was very tasty this way.
That sounds like a delicious addition. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Hi: Planning on making several of these for a wedding and am wondering if they could be frozen?
Thanks
I am so sorry that I’m just now seeing this comment. Yes, they can be frozen.