The Best Coffee Cake

INGREDIENTS:

1/2 pound butter

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup sour cream

2 cups flour

1 teaspoon soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 cup sugar

1 tablespoon cinnamon

1/2 cup finely chopped pecans

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Grease and flour two 8" or 9" pie pan

Cream butter and sugar

Add the eggs one at a time

Stir in the vanilla

Sift the dry ingredients and add alternately with the sour cream

Place 1/2 of the batter in each of the prepared pie pan

Mix the sugar, cinnamon and pecans together

Sprinkle evenly over each filled pan

Bake for 25 minutes or until the center tests done

Serve