Chocolate Pecan Coffee Cake
Serves: 6 to 8
A tender and delicious Chocolate Pecan Coffee Cake with a layer of pecan spice mixture in the middle for extra flavour and texture.
Ingredients
For the Pecan Spice Mixture
- 200 g (7 oz) pecans, roughly chopped
- 135 g (¾ cup) dark chocolate chips
- 40 g (¼ cup) light muscovado sugar, or light brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons mixed spice
For the Cake
- 160 g (1 ½ sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 165 g (¾ cup) caster sugar, (superfine sugar)
- 40 g (¼ cup) light muscovado sugar, or light brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- 150 g (1 cup) plain flour, (all-purpose flour)
- 10 g (2 teaspoons) baking powder
- 125 g (1 cup) ground almonds, (almond meal)
- 250 g or ml (1 cup) sour cream, or crème fraîche
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F (without fan).
- Line a 24 cm/9 inch cake tin with baking paper and grease the sides.
- Mix together the ingredients for the Pecan Spice Mixture in a bowl and set aside.
- In a separate bowl, cream together the butter, caster sugar and light brown sugar until the mixture is pale and fluffy. This step should take 3 to 5 minutes with an electric mixer.
- Beat in the eggs, one at a time.
- Then add the flour, baking powder and almond meal.
- Finally, mix through the sour cream.
- Mix everything together until well-combined.
- Pour half of the batter into the cake tin.
- Sprinkle half of the Pecan Spice Mixture evenly over the batter.
- Spread over the remaining batter.
- Sprinkle the remaining Pecan Spice Mixture on top.
- Bake for 45-60 minutes, or until a skewer inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.
- Leave the cake in the tin for about 10 minutes, before removing it carefully to a cooling rack.
- This cake is delicious served warm.
Kitchen Notes
- VARIATIONS
This recipe is a bit forgiving. I once discovered that I had no almond meal, so I instead used ground hazelnuts with great success. Another time, I didn't have enough sour cream so I made up the difference with natural yoghurt. - RECIPE CREDIT
This recipe is adapted from Tupperware. - OVEN TEMPERATURES
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To convert from cups to grams, and vice-versa, please see this handy Conversion Chart for Basic Ingredients.