If you are a first time baker, Martha recommends this recipe to start with because you probably have all the ingredients in your kitchen. After completing the recipe you wonder why more people don't bake with bakeries and coffee conglomerates charging an arm and a leg for their mediocre tasting baked goods.
The amount of butter for this recipe might turn you off but it is essential to achieving the moist cake and crumbly topping. Mix flour, baking powder and soda, and salt in a bowl and set aside. Cream 1 1/4 sticks of room temperature butter and sugar. Add 3 eggs one at a time to ensure that ingredients are well mixed and vanilla. Slowly add the flour mixture to the batter making sure not to overmix. Add the sour cream.
Pour batter into a 13 x 9" pan. Combine flour, brown sugar, 1 T cinnamon and 3 1/2 sticks of room temperature butter. Use pastry cutter to blend butter into mixture. Sprinkle topping evenly over cake mixture and bake for 40 minutes in a 350 degree preheated oven. Cake is done when a cake tester inserted in the middle of cake comes out clean.
Not only does your house smell heavenly while this cake bakes in the oven but you have a $50 cake that could feed and satisfy an army!
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