Weekly Mix: Coffee Cakes
Coffee cakes are one of my weaknesses. How can you not like a cake that is designed to be eaten any time of day? Who’s with me? If you raised your hand, then I think I’ve just found your baking project for the weekend.
I tend to keep a somewhat ridiculous variety of preserves in my refrigerator. This Black Cherry Sour Cream Coffee Cake is an excellent use of black cherry jam. Or, use your favorite flavor for a simple variation.
Banana Oatmeal Crumb Cake is a bit of a hybrid of a coffee cake and banana bread. Plenty of oats make this a nice hearty cake. Plus, all the bananas and nuts and brown sugar don’t hurt, either.
I love this big, tall Sour Cream Coffee Cake with Chocolate Cinnamon Swirl. The texture, the flavor, all of it is essentially perfect to me. Be warned that this one is hard to resist. You may find yourself going back over and over for just one more bite.
Fresh blueberries and cream cheese really make this Blueberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake. It’s such a beautiful cake! You can make this one after blueberry season has passed, too, with frozen blueberries.
Bake your coffee cake in muffin form with these Sour Cream Coffee Cake Muffins. The usual coffee cake suspects are here – cinnamon, nuts, sour cream. But, you get little portable, single-serving muffins to share.
Traditional coffee cake is usually flavored with cinnamon and adorned with a crumb topping. For a bit of a twist on the traditional, a sweet cream cheese swirl is mixed into this Cinnamon Cream Cheese Coffee Cake.
Do you have a favorite coffee cake?
Here are a couple of my favorite coffee cakes:
DEEP DISH CHEESECAKE COFFEE CAKE
3 cups biscuit mix
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk and
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese, softened
2 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup strawberry preserves
Combine biscuit mix, the 1/4 cup sugar, milk and butter; stir vigorously 30 seconds. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface; knead 4 or 5 times. Pat evenly in the bottom and up the sides of an ungreased 9 inch round cake pan; set aside.
Combine cream cheese, eggs, the 1/2 cup sugar and vanilla extract. Beat at medium speed with electric mixer until smooth. Pour over dough; bake at 350 for 30 to 35 minutes. Remove from oven; let stand 10 minutes. Spread preserves over top. Serve warm.
BANANA NUT AND DULCE DE LECHE COFFEE CAKE
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, divided
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces and divided
2 large eggs
1 cup mashed banana
1/2 cup sour cream
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1 cup pecan pieces
1 (13.4-ounce) can dulce de leche
Combine 2 1/4 cups flour and next 4 ingredients in a large bowl. Cut 3/4 cup butter into flour mixture with a pastry blender until crumbly. Whisk together eggs and next 3 ingredients; add to flour mixture, stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened. Spread batter into a greased 13″ x 9″ pan.
Combine remaining 1/2 cup flour and brown sugar in a small bowl. Cut remaining 1/4 cup butter into flour mixture with pastry blender. Add pecans, pressing streussel mixture between fingers until large clumps form. Sprinkle streussel over batter in pan.
Microwave dulce de leche in a small glass bowl on HIGH 1 minute or until drizzling consistency, stirring once; drizzle over streussel topping. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 38 minutes or until streussel topping begins to brown and center of cake puffs slightly. Cool slightly. Yield: 12 to 16 servings
TOFFEE CRUNCH COFFEE CAKE
1/2 cup butter
1 tsp soda
2 cup flour
1 egg
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
4 Toffee candy bars; crushed fine ( 3/4 oz ea.)
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup buttermilk or sour milk
1/4 cup chopped pecans
Cut butter into flour and sugars until crumbly. Set aside 1/2 cup To remainder, add buttermilk, soda, egg and vanilla; beat well. Pour 1/3 batter into well greased and floured 9-cup Mini-Bundt pan. Combine reserved mixture, candy and nuts. Sprinkle over batter. Alternate remaining batter and candy nut mixture. Bake at 350 for 35-45 minutes.
These sound great, Shelly. Thanks so much for sharing!
Yum! I’m going to try these too!
I love coffee cakes as well, moist, soft and so delicious!
I LOVE coffee cakes also-and all of those look AMAZING!!!!!
The black cherry sour cream coffee cake reminds me of a special coffee cake made just for me one Mother’s Day years ago. It arrived with a delicate sprinkle of powdered sugar, too. Using your recipe, I can now make one for myself!
Coffee cakes are my favorite to make… Easy yet delicious! Great round up
I LOVE coffee cakes! I definitely want to try the blueberry cream cheese! would you mind if I featured your recipe on my blog? ๐
michaela
I made the cinnamon cream cheese coffee cake and while it was lovely, it came out pretty dry – would subtracting 1 cup of flour help with that? 3 cups seemed like a lot to me and by the time I added the sour cream, I thought I might break my mixer from the density of the batter ๐
Abs, the amount of flour should work fine. How do you measure flour? Do you weigh it or scoop it?
ahhhh I love a good coffee cake!!!
Ohhhh MY!!! These look all soo delicious!!!