I am an early riser but Shaela got up even earlier during a recent visit just so she could have warm-from-the-oven coffee cake for us to enjoy. Kid’s like to be in the kitchen and there are many recipes that are not complicated and produce good results. This coffee cake is one of them.
She just celebrated her 10th birthday!
Making coffee cake again
After we returned home from our visit with Shaela and our kids in upstate, New York, I still had coffee cake on my mind. With weekend plans to be outside stacking firewood and raking leaves with our New Jersey grandkids, I made the coffee cake recipe.
As coffee cake should be, this one has a light and tender crumb with a wonderful, brown sugar and cinnamon topping. A welcoming treat after some hard work!
Coffee Cake Recipe
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Serves 9-12
Ingredients
- 1½ cups all-purpose flour
- ¾ sugar
- 2½ tsp baking powder
- ¾ tsp salt
- ¼ cup butter, softened (or shortening)
- ¾ cup milk
- 1 egg
COFFEE CAKE TOPPING:
- ⅓ cup brown sugar, packed
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- 3 Tbsp firm butter, in small pieces
In a bowl, stir together the brown sugar, flour and cinnamon. Add the chilled butter and with a fork or pastry cutter, cut in the butter until evenly combined and the mixture is crumbly.
Cake batter directions:
Place flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, softened butter, milk and egg in a mixing bowl.
With mixer, beat mixture 2 minutes.
Pour batter into prepared baking dish. NOTE: In these photos, I doubledthe recipe and baked two coffee cakes. One for us and one for a friend.
Here are the coffee cakes with the topping sprinkled on top and ready to go into the oven to bake.
Heat oven to 375 degrees.
Grease a round layer pan (9 x 1 1/2 inches) or square pan (8 x 8 x 2 or 9 x 9 x 2 inches).
With mixer, blend all cake ingredients. Beat well for 2 minutes. Spread into pan.
Sprinkle topping evenly over batter.
Bake 25-30 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
Serve warm.
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I baked this easy to follow recipe and my family enjoyed it very much. Thank you it is moist and super yummy!!!
I have been making this coffee cake for years…. I have added chopped pecans to the topping. Blueberries or Cranberries added to the batter is great as well. Might dice up some apple to add to it as well….
Looks yummy!! Your granddaughter is sweet 🙂
Thanks for sharing, I love coffee flavoured things. But I did not see any specific ingredient, what gives the coffee flavour to the cake?
I have made that particular one several times over the years, Lorraine. It is good and easy and everyone always likes it. xo Diana
Mother had that Old Betty Crocker cookbook. My grandkids would love the coffeecake. Hope you have a nice weekend.
She is so cute!
The Coffee Cake sounds delicious!
Warm coffee cake would be the perfect autumn morning treat…yummy fuel for those outdoor tasks!
Your spunky Shaela is a doll!!
Cute girl and a yummy recipe! Happy Wednesday ♥