Amish Sour Cream Pumpkin Coffeecake With Cake Mix Crumble Topping

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As far as a pumpkin coffee cake recipe goes, Amish Sour Cream Pumpkin Coffeecake With Cake Mix Crumble Topping is difficult to beat! Amish cooks often have pumpkin on hand year-round. Home-canned pumpkin is a staple in many Amish canning pantries.  The home-canned version looks a little different than the can of Libby's you might buy in the store.

Home-canned pumpkin is much lighter, so the color will be reflected in baked goods you make if you used home-canned. But I'd venture to guess 99.9 percent of you who attempt this recipe will use the store-bought canned kind.   This is a delicious cake.  

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I love autumn in Amish country. It's not uncommon to see shiny black buggies pulling carts loaded with bright orange pumpkins. I've also seen plenty of Amish families working together harvesting pumpkins in the fields. It's a true family affair with boys (yes, gender roles in Amish families are still very much defined) tossing the pumpkins up onto a cart while the girls roll them into position. Here are some great tips on growing your own pumpkins!

Pumpkins are a sure sign of autumn in Amish country. When the bright blazing orange appears in the fields, that is a sure sign that the first frosts isn't far behind. A nip in the air becomes inevitable and when that first frost hits, the pumpkins will then be past their prime. While pumpkins are large and seemingly mighty, it doesn't take much frost to do them in.

While this recipe works wonderfully in a bundt pan, it can be made in a flat 9 X 13 baking pan, or you can use a round cake pan. You might have to monitor or adjust baking times a little,but the cake will turn out fine.

Okay, now to this recipe...well, yes, first let's answer the obvious question:

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So you'll want a package of yellow cake mix just like this or your favorite brand. Store-brands are a lot cheaper and do just as well.

Use canned pumpkin and then some sort of homemade or store-bought sour cream and four of the fresh eggs you can get your hands on!

While many Amish cooks may keep some boxed cake mixes stashed away in their pantries, you won't find too many Amish with store-bought eggs. Fresh eggs are plentiful in most Amish settlements. You either having laying hens or you know someone who does.

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We used an electric mixer on this one. I mean, I try, when I replicate these recipes to do things the "Amish way" as much as possible. A whisk or wooden spoons and metal bowls are my favorite, and I rarely touch my wife's stand-mixer. But just sometimes an electric mixer is nice because it speeds things up and it does with this cake.

This cake does bake a good long while in the oven. Because oven temperatures and efficiency can vary so much by manufacturer and altitude, do start monitoring the cake at about 30 minutes, just peek at it, maybe at 45 minutes give it the ol' toothpick test. But when it is all done you get a beautiful Amish sour cream pumpkin coffeecake!

Cinnamon and pumpkin is always a great flavor combination, so if I made this again I might add a couple teaspoons to the batter. There will be salt in the boxed cake mix, so not need to add your own. You could also add a teaspoon of ginger to the batter depending on what kind of tastes you like, I'm not a huge ginger fan, personally. Cloves, nutmeg, and vanilla extract can all be added, but the more of that you add, the more of a spice-type cake that you'll get.

The cake mix streusel topping is what really makes this dessert special, I mean, how can you go wrong with that? Just drizzle or spoon this cake crumb topping over the top of the batter before you pop it into the oven. You could add some melted butter or maple syrup to the topping.
Also, as far as substitutions go, for those of you who stay away from sour cream, you can sub it with greek yogurt in this recipe and it'll turn out super.

I've heard of some people making this cake and skipping the topping and adding a cream cheese frosting. I mean, cream cheese frosting is super on anything, so go ahead and try it that way if you want, but I think this cake is near-perfect as is, a perfectly instagram, facebook, or pinterest-worthy cake!

There's probably about a half hour of prep time involved in this cake and when you factor in baking, about 90 minutes of total time involved. If you don't have a Bundt pan, no worries, you can use any sort of baking dish for a rectangular cake. Maybe just bake a little less time since it'll be less dense.

You can stick this cake in the freezer to thaw out at a future date or just store any leftovers in an air-tight container.

🎃 More Amish Pumpkin Recipes

Amish pumpkin pie squares

Pumpkin dump cake

Pumpkin roll cake

Mini-Pumpkin Muffins

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