Swedish Coffee Bread - Recipe

Carlene Dater’s Swedish Coffee Bread

Cream together, ½ cup butter and 1 1/4 cups sugar -

Add 2 beaten eggs

1 cup sour cream

1 tsp. vanilla. Mix well.

Add 2 cups flour

1 tsp. baking powder and ½ tsp. Baking soda. Mix in flour to form batter.

In a separate bowl, mix ½ cup chopped walnuts, 2 tsp. Sugar and ½ tsp. Cinnamon.

Put half the batter in a greased Angel food cake pan or, anyway a pan with a hole in the middle.

Sprinkle half the nut mixture on batter in pan. Add remaining dough then add the rest of the sugar/nut/cinnamon mixture on top. Bake one hour in 350-F or 177-C degree oven. Yummy.

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