Classic Breakfast Coffee Cake

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If you are wanting to make the cake as seen on the TV show you will be very disappointed. This recipe is baked in a 9x13 for starters, is NOT dense and gooey as show in picture. Taste was very good, texture very light and fluffy. Use kosher salt, and it won't be too salty. The cake also needs to bake 50-55min. I am sure this is not the recipe Alex would have posted.

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what an amazing cake. I am not accomplished in the kitchen but I made this with no problems, and it is the best breakfast food ever.

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I loved this and made it for guests - it was a huge hit. The sour cream kept the cake moist as people nibbled it throughout the morning.
I wasn't sure why the extra step of refrigerating the topping only to bring it back to room temp?

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Good, but a little bland. This cake came out very dense and moist but I don't have a 13 X 9 pan, so I used a 9 X9 instead. I also didn't have enough sour cream so I substituted 1 cup for one cup milk (with 1tbsp lemon juice to make buttermilk and 3 tbsps butter. Overall it was yummy but I wish it would've had more flavor.

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I Made this cake today, came out light and and moist. I used 3/4 tsp. salt and baked the Cake for 50mins.very delicious.

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I agree with all the comments that were made so far. It's a great cake, but it's light and fluffy, not dense like on the show. The topping also didn't stick - was kind of rolling away! I baked it in a glass pie dish. I was also creaming the four tablespoons of butter with the cup of sugar for 15 minutes and it wasn't getting fluffy at all! I freaked out and added another 4 tablespoons of butter... still not very fluffy! So I added the eggs and continued creaming... only then did it finally get creamy. The rest of the ingredients I followed to the letter, but that first part was a bit strange. I wonder if it would have been more dense if I had not added more butter or creamed after adding eggs? I also did have to bake it for 50 minutes.

It's a delicious recipe, but so many tweaks and pitfalls that I couldn't possibly give it 5 stars!

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The cake was okay. It really did not look anything like the Alex's cake in the show. Like other reviewers my cake was light and fluffy unlike the dense custard like texture she had on tv. Where did the recipe go wrong? Hopefully Alex will catch this and rectify the problem. And to the reviewers who said the cake was too salty it's because you guys used regular table salt instead of the kosher salt that is listed. Table salt is more compact and dense compared to kosher salt based on its physical structure. So if you don't have kosher salt use 1/2 the amount of table salt if you don't then your dish will taste very salty!!!! And where the recipe says to use unsalted butter use it. If it tells you to use butter use salted butter.

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The cake is very easy to make and delicious! However, I used unsalted butter as other suggested and just a little pinch of salt.

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Made this for a breakfast meeting and everyone enjoyed it. I uses pecans instead of walnuts. I too used just a pinch of salt and the topping tasted great

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Made this a second time this last weekend. Made the cake true to the recipe and it was great once again. It does make a lot and we have leftovers for days. Tweaked the topping since it was way salty before. My tips if you want to make this: use unsalted butter and use a pinch or about 1/4 a tsp of salt, that's it. Enough to compliment the sweetness. Otherwise you're going to have a much too salty topping like you're reading from the others. I also subbed pecans again and used 1 1/2 cups which was perfect. With these changes it was perfect for us. Hope this helps some looking to make it or who had trouble before. =