Sour Cream Coffee Cake

This is one of my Bubbie Shirley's famous recipes. For those of you who have been reading the blog from the start, she is the grandmother of applesauce fame. She was a phenomenal cook. There were things she made from scratch that I've never known anyone else to make. Chocolate pudding, gefilte fish, perfect pinwheel cookies. She made these tiny, chocolate chip cookies that looked as if they came from a factory. Every holiday that she and my Pop would visit for, she'd bring the chocolate chip and pinwheel cookies in these vintage tins. One blue, the other yellow. They had a flower motif. Those cookie tins were synonymous with her, and they were all I wanted after she died. No one could find them. However, I did get something really special from her apartment that I use and cherish. A metal bread box that's easily 100 years old. It was from her mother, my GG (great grandmother). It's large but fits perfectly in one of my counters corners.

Having it in my kitchen brings me joy. I am very sentimental, and it's so cool to know that I am another homemaker of a different generation using this heirloom. Bubbie's sour cream cake, with its sheer, delicate coating of sugar on top, was fought over by everyone. Second slivers stolen when no one else saw. There was never one crumb left. I love sharing meaningful recipes with you. Food really is love❤️. Bubbie Shirley, this one is for you🍰.

Ingredients:

1 stick butter or margarine softened

1/2 cup shortening

1 cup sugar

4 eggs yolks and whites separated

1 cup sour cream

3 cups Presto flour sifted.  **Sifting is a must here. This cake has the most delicate texture because of it.

 1 tsp vanilla

Directions:

Beat butter and shortening in a mixer with paddle attachment, gradually add sugar, add egg yolks one at a time mixing after each, add sour cream, slowly fold in the flour, vanilla, and egg whites. EGG WHITES MUST BE BEATEN STIFF PRIOR (eek, sorry for yelling but this is crucial. I want perfection for you!).

Put in a ten inch UN greased tube pan. Add the following crumb mixture on top. OMG, the topping is magic I swear. 1 tbsp shortening, 2 each tbsp flour and sugar. Mix flour and sugar with a fork, add shortening.

Bake at 350 for one hour.

She's so cute. I got this recipe from her own handwritten card at my bridal shower. At the end she wrote "be Tay Avon". This is Hebrew for Bon ap petit 😊. Bubbie Shirley died many years ago, but I still taste her cake in both my mouth and heart 🍰👄❤️. From her kitchen to yours. I'm just the messenger here.