COFFEE CAKE WITH CINNAMON SWIRL AND CRUMBLE TOPPING
This coffee cake is moist and tender, not too sweet but packed with cinnamon flavour thanks to the cinnamon swirl and crumble topping. A perfect snack for anytime of the day.
Happy Monday everyone, hope you all had a fabulous weekend. We kept busy around here, went to our favourite nursery/greenhouse to pick up vegetable plants for the garden and some flowers as well so that is all getting planted today. We also went to visit with some family we haven’t seen in awhile; it’s always nice to catch up with them and have the kids get together with their cousins. All in all it was a busy and fun weekend.
So let’s talk cake; is there anything better then cake for breakfast? We obviously can’t do this everyday but birthday cake the next day is always a treat for me with my morning coffee. This leads me to today’s post about a classic dessert that’s been around for what seems like forever, Coffee Cake.
You guys this Coffee Cake with Cinnamon Swirl and Crumble Topping is deliciously insane. It’s moist and tender and bursting with cinnamon flavour everywhere. I mean the cinnamon swirls in the cake with the addition of crumble on top is just unreal. The crumble topping is my favourite, I remember as a child when my mom would bring some home from the store I would only eat the top half of the cake and give her the rest. Good times.
So I set out to make an extra flavourful coffee cake and this recipe is it. It pretty much has your basic cake ingredients; butter, sugar, eggs, flour, baking powder and baking soda plus sour cream. I just took it a step further by adding both the cinnamon swirl and the crumble topping, which gives it a nice crunch. Oh and did I mention the smell it leaves behind it just fills your home with this aroma almost has a calming and soothing effect.
So I hope you give this recipe a try and please leave comments and don’t forget to send those pics to my IG @marisblissfulbites.
As always Happy Baking,
XOXO Mari!
Cinnamon Swirl Coffee Cake with Crumble Topping
Ingredients
For Cake Batter
- 1 cup of unsalted butter at room temp.
- 1 cup of granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs at room temp.
- 2 tsp of vanilla extract
- 2 cups of all purpose flour
- 1 tsp of baking soda
- 1 tsp of baking powder
- ½ tsp of salt
- 1 tsp of cinnamon
- 1 cup of sour cream at room temp. full fat
For Cinnamon Swirl
- ½ cup of brown sugar
- 1 tsp of cinnamon
- 2 tbsp. of milk
For Crumble Topping
- ½ cup of brown sugar
- 1 tsp of cinnamon
- 4 tbsps. of unsalted butter at room temp
- 4 tbsps. of flour
Instructions
For Cinnamon Swirl
- Combine brown sugar, cinnamon and milk in a small bowl and set aside.
For Crumble Topping
- In a bowl mix brown sugar, cinnamon and flour then with fork cut in butter until a crumbly coarse texture is formed and set aside.
Cake Batter
- Preheat oven to 325°F and prepare a 9 inch loaf pan with parchment paper, spray it with cooking spray and set aside.
- In a bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon and set aside.
- With mixer on med-high speed cream together butter and sugar for 5 mins until light and fluffy making sure to scrape down bowl in between.
- Add eggs and vanilla and mix for another minute.
- Now take your flour mixture and add half of it to butter mixture and mix on low speed. Then add half of sour cream and mix. Add rest of flour and mix and rest of sour cream and mix until just combined.
- Pour half of batter into loaf pan then spoon cinnamon swirl mixture on top. Place rest of batter on top and finally top with remainder of cinnamon swirl mixture. With a knife cut through batter swirling the mixture around to get a swirl effect.
- Finally sprinkle with crumble topping and bake for 1hr. 15mins. or until tooth pick comes out clean with a few crumbs.Cool in pan for 15 mins. before removing and transferring onto rack to cool completely.