Apple Nut Coffee Cake

This week at I ♥ Faces is dessert week, which was easy for me, since I do these kinds of tutorials all the time here on the Recipes Dream. This moist crumbed coffee cake was a show-stopper with its fancy presentation and out-of-this-world taste. Served up with some fresh fruit, you will have a dessert or brunch no one will soon forget! Be sure to go check out I ♥ Faces for lots more dessert tutorials and photos!

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The ingredients:

CAKE:
1 cup butter, softened
1-1/2 cups sugar
1 container (16-oz.) sour cream (2 cups)
2 tsp. vanilla extract
4 large eggs
1 Tbs. baking powder
2 tsp. baking soda
2-1/2 cups flour (I used white whole wheat flour)
4-5 medium apples (Gala, Granny Smith, or Golden Delicious)

STREUSEL:
1 cup walnuts or pecans, chopped
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
2/3 cup flour
4 Tbs. butter

DIRECTIONS: Prepare streusel topping by combining in a medium size bowl the chopped walnuts or pecans, brown sugar, cinnamon, 2/3 cup flour, and 4 tablespoons butter until mixture forms large pieces. Next peel, core, halve, and thinly slice apples, then toss apples with 2 tablespoons white sugar. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 14x10-inch roasting pan.

In a large bowl, with mixer at medium speed, beat 1 cup butter with 1-1/2 cups sugar until light and fluffy. Add sour cream, baking powder, baking soda, vanilla, eggs, and 2-1/2 cups flour. Beat mixture at low speed until blended, occasionally scraping bowl. Increase speed to medium; beat 1 minute. Spread batter in pan to corners. Arrange apple slices on top to edge of pan (it took me 4-1/2 apples to cover).