Nana’s Chocolate Chip Sour Cream Coffee Cake
Evan Rossio has lived in East Grand Rapids, MI for 30 years, along with his wife Julie, his daughter Emily, and his son Jordan and daughter-in-law Hannah.
The author’s mother-in-law, Barb Remes, made this cake for years. She got the recipe from her friend Shelly Hammerslag, who got the original recipe from her Aunt Bea Weiss. It’s likely that people have enjoyed this cake since the Roosevelt administration.
Ingredients
- 113 grams ( 4 ounces) unsalted butter
- 2 eggs
- 237 ml (1 cup) granulated sugar
- 473 ml (2 cups) all-purpose flour
- 5 ml (1 teaspoon) baking soda
- 2.5 ml (½ teaspoon) baking powder
- Pinch of salt
- Oil, butter, or nonstick spray for greasing pan
- 10 ml (2 teaspoons) vanilla extract
- 237 ml (1 cup) sour cream
- 237 ml (1 cup) chocolate chips
Preparation
- Preheat oven to 177°C (350°F). Cream the butter, eggs and sugar. Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Grease a 20 cm x 7.7 cm (8”x 3”) loaf pan or tube pan and line bottom with parchment paper.
- Whisk vanilla into sour cream. Add sifted ingredients to creamed ingredients, alternating dry ingredients with the sour cream/vanilla. Fold in chocolate chips.
- Pour batter into the prepared pan, smooth top, and bake until a toothpick or tester inserted into the center comes out dry, about 1 hour.
Evan D. Rossio
Evan Rossio has lived in East Grand Rapids, MI for 30 years, along with his wife Julie, his daughter Emily, and his son Jordan and daughter-in-law Hannah. Evan is a recently retired attorney, having worked in the legal field since 1988. He currently does non-profit work and has a personal chef gig for a local family who appreciate healthy cuisine and have sophisticated palates (as do their young children). In his free time, he enjoys spending time with family and friends, and you can usually find him in the kitchen cooking. He is a coffee snob, enjoys wine and gin, reading, playing his guitar, and exercising. His daughter is horrified to admit that he spends more time on social media than she does. Evan and his food can be found on Instagram at @evanrossio.
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