Sour Dough Coffee Cake

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Sour Dough Coffee Cake

Several months ago, a friend of mine, James, suggested I give sour dough a try.  It's taken me a while to get it going, but roughly a week ago, I started my sour dough starter.  I'm not going to post pictures and instructions because there are a lot of them out there that have done quite admirable jobs at it.  James gave me instructions, then I found a site that gave the same instructions with pictures.  This is the link to that site.  

I will say that a lot of sites offer to sell you sour dough starter, and while that may be all well and good; I wanted to make my own.  There's just something really satisfying about creating your own starter culture and then baking with it.

My sour dough starter was ready to use yesterday, but I didn't know what I wanted to do with it.  I've not been feeling well the last few days, so I didn't want to do anything very involved.  Another friend suggested I make a sour dough coffee cake.  That sounded good!  I found a recipe online, tweaked it, and here's my take on the Sour Dough Coffee Cake.  I hope you like it!

Sour Dough Coffee Cake

Pre-heat the oven to 350F.  Spray a 9" square baking pan with cooking oil spray and set it aside.

In a mixing bowl, combine 

1 cup sour dough starter

1/3 cup olive oil (or equal parts olive oil and coconut oil)

1 egg, beaten

In another bowl combine

1 cup unbleached flour (I use King Arthur because it isn't brominated)

1/2 cup sugar (organic preferred)

1/4 cup coconut sugar

1/2 teaspoon sea salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir until they are combined.  Pour the batter into the prepared pan.  

In another bowl mix the topping until crumbly

1/4 cup coconut sugar

1/4 cup brown sugar (organic preferred)

1 tablespoon flour (as above)

2 tablespoons butter

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Sprinkle the topping over the cake batter.  Bake the cake at 350F for approximately 35 minutes or until a knife inserted off center comes out clean.  Allow the cake to cool for about 10 minutes before serving warm.  Delicious!