Sour Cream Coffee Cake

Ingredients

• • 1 c oleo/butter

  • 2 c sugar

  • 1/2 pt sour cream

  • 3 c sifted flour

  • 6 whole eggs

  • 1 t baking powder

  • 1 t baking soda

  • 1/2 t salt

  • 1 t lemon extract or lemon juice

  • 1 t vanilla

  • 1/2 c chopped nuts

  • 1/2 c brown sugar

Preparation

Grease and flour 9" tube pan.

Mix nuts and brown sugar for topping and set aside.

Cream sugar and oleo/butter. Add eggs one at a time. Sift dry ingredients together and add gradually. Add the sour cream and blend well. Last: add the vanilla and lemon and blend. Pour half of batter into pan and sprinkle with half of the nut-sugar mixture. Pour balance of the batter and sprinkle with remainder of the nut-sugar mixture. Bake in 350 degree oven for 1 hour. Cool on rack then turn out of pan to cool.