The best coffee cake recipes have it all: delicious crumble toppings; fun add-ins like chocolate, fruit, and nuts; and gooey-sweet fillings. Each of these sweet coffee cakes is ready to serve for breakfast, as an after-dinner treat, or even for a simple midday snack.
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Lemon-Raspberry Coffee Cake
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Look to light, lemony cheesecake and fresh raspberries for your next fruit-filled coffee cake. Prevent the raspberries from sinking into the batter by waiting until the cake is partially baked, then gently pressing the berries into the cake.
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Strawberry-Rhubarb Coffee Cake
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This strawberry coffee cake recipe is a must-make in the spring when rhubarb is in season. However, if you can't find fresh fruit, frozen works great. Each bite is filled with a cinnamon streusel topping and vanilla glaze.
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Pineapple Upside-Down Coffee Cake
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Caramelized pineapple slices, light and airy pound cake, and a maraschino cherry topper guarantee coffee cake isn't just for breakfast anymore!
Not only is this sour cream coffee cake recipe the perfect mixture of moist and airy, but it's also full of chocolate pieces, sweet coconut, and crunchy pecans. Yum!
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Strawberry Coffee Cake with Cornmeal Streusel
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Our delicious strawberry coffee cake is the perfect make-and-take treat—not too crumbly and sturdy enough to eat at any potluck, tailgate, or picnic. As one BHG home cook shared, "This recipe is outstanding!"
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Raspberry-Apple Kuchen with Warm Cream Sauce
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Forget the simple apple coffee cake. There's a new treat in town: kuchen. Cinnamon-spiced apples and sweet raspberries are drizzled with our warm homemade eggnog sauce in this new take on a breakfast favorite.
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Blueberry Streusel Coffee Cake
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A layer of sweet berries turns your favorite go-to coffee cake into a fruit-filled delight. This moist and crumbly blueberry cake shines with a streusel topping and decadent drizzle of powdered sugar icing.
Embrace your favorite fall coffeehouse classic in this earthy pumpkin coffee cake recipe. We love it so much, it's one of our Test Kitchen's favorite recipes!
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Chocolate-Pecan Coffee Cake
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This sour cream coffee cake recipe is layered with a rich chocolate filling. To make the filling and topping, blend bittersweet chocolate with shredded coconut and toasted pecans. Add a dash of cinnamon to bring the classic coffee cake flavor.
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Pecan and Browned Butter Coffee Cake
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We can't decide what we love more about this coffee cake recipe. It's a toss up between the rich, buttery cake and the sweet coffee icing. Make it ahead and freeze for up to two months.
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Pumpkin Coffee Break Cake
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Canned pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice bring fall flavor to this breakfast cake. Crown the top of this pumpkin coffee cake with toasted pecans and finish with a sweet orange glaze.
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Overnight Ricotta Coffee Cake
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Prep this moist coffee cake recipe the night before and all you'll have to do in the morning is pop the pan in the oven. Adding ricotta cheese to the batter ensures the cake stays moist, light, and rich. You can use any chopped nuts you like here but our Test Kitchen recommends walnuts.
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Mango Coffee Cake
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Juicy mango is just what your coffee cake has been missing. It adds moisture and flavor to a classic vanilla cake. Top each piece with homemade whipped cream and a sprinkle of cinnamon.
Test Kitchen Tip: For the best flavor and texture, serve this coffee cake recipe warm.
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Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake
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A cast iron skillet is the key to achieving the perfect crispy edges and tender middle. This classic coffee cake recipe is finished with a vanilla drizzle and a sprinkle of fresh raspberries.
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Blueberry and Cream Cheese Coffee Cake Muffins
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Cream cheese and fresh blueberries flavor this coffee cake batter. Package them up as delicious food gifts or bake a batch and eat them throughout the week. Store them in the fridge for up to 3 days or freeze for up to 3 months.
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Coffee cake can is a versatile pastry that you can serve for breakfast or dessert! It's nice having an excuse to eat a cake for breakfast, so indulge in a delicious slice in the morning. Or serve it for a snack in the afternoon. It's also amazing served as an after-dinner dessert.
Infuse the Batter With Coffee Two Ways. Bakers know that that the easiest way to get coffee flavor into a baked good is to add instant espresso powder to the batter. ...
The difference is that instead of frosting on top, coffee cakes have crumble or streusel. Just like a cake, it can also have glaze or icing. Another difference is coffee cake typically has a thin layer of cinnamon in the middle. Regular cakes have no filling or inner layers of frosting, ganache, custard, or jam.
Ciambella is one of the most popular Italian breakfast cakes. It's traditionally baked in the shape of a ring and topped with icing or dusted with sugar. It usually includes one of Italy's favorite flavors: lemon. You can adapt it to suit your taste or choose an easy coffee cake recipe for a morning treat.
By wrapping the cake tightly, you'll keep any moisture in the cake, preserving its texture and flavor longer. Once your cake is wrapped, you'll be ready to store it at the right temperature.
If you have too much flour in a recipe and not enough fat, like butter or oil, your cake is going to be dry and hard. For best results, I would encourage you to use a scale when baking, but if you don't have a scale, then just make sure you're using measuring cups correctly.
Because espresso powder is so finely ground and concentrated, it's great for drier doughs like cookies and cakes, where you want a coffee flavor but you don't want to mess with the texture.
Thus, it became commonplace in these countries to have a small sweet served alongside a coffee. It wasn't until 1763 before coffee cake was first mentioned, though technically even then by another name, the German “gugelhupf”.
A buckle is a funny name for an old fashioned fruit studded coffee cake. Like many other desserts in the extended cobbler family buckles take their name from their appearance—grunts grunt as they cook, slumps slump when served, buckles—you guessed it—buckle.
The king cake is a mixture of a French pastry and a coffee cake. Its oval shape and festive colors give it a unique appeal. The original version features the royal colors of gold, purple, and green. Gold represents power, purple represents justice, and green signifies faith.
That little cake and a cup of coffee was my breakfast before class and it made me very happy. I'm not advocating starting every day with a cupcake, but “Eat cake for breakfast” holds some truth to it. It essentially means do something purely for the fact that it makes you happy.
While different nationalities begin their day with breakfast cereals, eggs, pancakes, ham, or sausages, Italians choose cakes and other pastries for breakfast. Roman breakfast cakes are a common breakfast treat at home, in cafes, and at hotel breakfast buffets.
Instead, make our tiramisu-stuffed French toast, our birthday cake pancakes, our cookie dough pound cake, or our crêpe cake. They've got the dessert-y flavors you love, but belong more at brunch than your dinner table. You could also go classic with a spin on the dessert-breakfast hybrid no one can resist—monkey bread.
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