Ingredients to Make Gourmet Coffee Cake

Series Summary

If Ben Franklin could be persuaded to amend his own words from the afterlife, he might say that dessert is also proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. Though everybody has their own idea of what qualifies as dessert, sweet foods are an essential part of the everyday taste experience. Their relatively minor role in the nutritional pyramid belies their powerful ability to bring a sense of instant gratification, signified by an ebullient smile. Perhaps this reaction is more complex than it seems. Perhaps dessert reminds us of home, of everything that’s good, of times spent with mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, over a freshly baked pie or some chocolate chip cookies and milk.

Whatever secrets dessert holds are yet to be fully understood. In the meantime, why not enjoy them? In this series of free cooking videos you'll learn a recipe for gourmet coffee cake. Expert chef Pamela Bowman, AKA "Chef Blondie" walks you through this awesome dessert recipe step-by-step, showing you what ingredients you'll need to get started, how to make streusel, how to make a glaze, and how to serve the coffee cake with ice cream.

Video Transcript

"Hey everyone. Welcome to Expert Village. I'm Pam Bowman, but you all know me as Chef Blondie. Today's a real treat for me. We are doing a food that I grew up on. Sour cream coffee cake. My mom, God rest her soul, was the queen of coffee cakes. There wasn't a day that went by in my house that a coffee cake of some sort wasn't made. From plum coffee cakes to blueberry to raspberry to apple coffee cakes. But my favorite was sour cream coffee cake. And it's basically the base of all of the coffee cakes. So we're going to learn how to make May's Sour cream Coffee Cake. It's going to be a lot of fun. It's an easy thing to do and once you do it, you're going to love it. And it's a great way to start the morning. A little piece of coffee with a great cup of coffee. It's a nice way to end the day. So come along with me and have some of my mom's sour cream coffee cake. You'll love it. We're going to start out by talking about all the ingredients that you'll need. First we need all purpose flour. Regular old all purpose flour you can buy in the store. Don't buy unbleached. Just buy plain all purpose flour. Next baking soda, baking powder, regular sugar, butter, unsalted, eggs. We'll be using three. Be sure you use large eggs. Sour cream of course. A little bit of salt because we're going to be able to control the salt in it. Some vanilla, cinnamon, brown sugar, walnuts. This is for our streusel. And then a little bit of powdered sugar that we're going to mix with water to be our glaze. So let's get started."