The Best Coffee Cake Recipe
This is the ultimate coffee cake recipe. It’s so tender and fluffy it almost melts in your mouth. The brown sugar topping melts into the cake while baking, giving it an amazing taste while making it even more moist. Pure decadence. If you want to impress somebody, or if you have special guests for dessert or breakfast and you have trouble deciding what to make, problem solved with this easy (but insanely delicious!) cake. I hope you give this recipe a try and love it as much as I do!
The Best Coffee Cake Recipe
What's better than the smell of warm, delicious coffee cake to wake everybody up in the morning? Try this tender, moist cake. It's sure to impress!
Serves: 15
Ingredients
- For the cake:
- 3 cups all purpose flour ( I sub one cup for whole wheat)
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ¾ tsp salt
- 1½ tsp baking soda
- 1½ tsp baking powder
- 1½ tsp cinnamon
- ⅜ cup orange juice
- 1½ eggs
- 1½ cups milk
- ¾ cup vegetable oil
- For the brown sugar topping:
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ½ cup butter
- 1 cup walnuts or pecans (optional)
- For the glaze:
- 1⅛ cups powdered sugar
- 1½ tablespoons milk
- ¾ tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, salt, baking soda, baking powder, and cinnamon.
- In a medium bowl, combine orange juice, eggs, milk, and oil.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir/fold just until combined. Don't over mix.
- Pour into a greased 9x13 glass baking dish.
- For the topping combine brown sugar, butter, and nuts (optional) and dollop evenly over your cake batter.
- Pop the cake in the oven and bake for approx. 30-35 min. until beautifully golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean and not too much raw batter comes out of the brown sugar swirl. Let cool a bit before drizzling on the glaze.
- For the glaze simply whisk together the powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla.
Just a note of caution, if you want a clean oven, DO NOT put the batter in a pan that is smaller then 9×13… Otherwise the sugar mixture will bubble over the sides. The cake is deliciously moist! And a sprinkle of orange zest added to the icing also adds the great flavour. Perfect!
Thank you for your great review, Rosalin! I’m glad you loved it!
Hi Denae, its serene, I was just wondering if you put any of these recipes on Pinterest.
I’m trying to figure out how to do it. It’s a bit complicated I think…
Did you get this recipe from Janet Hofer?
No.
Well, you should ask Janet for her recipe. we’ve tried it before and we loved it. But, i would love to try yours as well. by the way, in the glaze, does the powdered sugar have to be sift first?
No it doesn’t. 🙂 Give this recipe a try, it’s amazing!
I think I will thanks! I’ll try to send you a picture of the results. also Janet’s is a little more complicated because you cook up a sauce. instead of a glace.
I think we’ve made that cake before… Is it the rhubarb one?
Yes, and I think it’s actually called special rhubarb cake.
Hi Denae, I tried out your coffee cake! it was delicious!!!! also putting a few blueberries on top took it to the next level. but there was only one problem, when I made the brown sugar topping it was like a dough.
Great to hear Serene! That’s ok, it’s ‘doughy’ when I make it too🙂 It’s not a struesel, it’s more of a topping that swirls and melts into the cake.
ok. at least I know it was suppose to be doughy
How do measure one and a half eggs?
Just crack the egg into a bowl and take out half of it.
But…where is coffee in this cake ?
Hi Saadia. Coffee cakes don’t have coffee in them, you enjoy them with coffee. It’s the perfect match to eat with coffee because of the sweet glaze and streusel:)