Coffee Cake, but Better: Crumb Cake
Both a breakfast and dessert, my Crumb Cake stands out from the foil-lined, pre-made version you can buy at the grocery store. Perfectly dense, moist, and piled high with crumb topping, this simple recipe comes together quickly, and it’s big enough to feed a crowd!
Recipe:
Ingredients
For the Cake
1 ¾ cup all-purpose flour (220g)
1 cup granulated sugar (200g)
⅓ cup light brown sugar, firmly packed (66g)
¾ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon table salt
¼ teaspoon baking soda
8 Tablespoons unsalted butter, softened and cut into 8 pieces
1 cup sour cream (240g)
1 large egg + 1 large egg yolk
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
Crumb Topping
1 ⅔ cup all-purpose flour (210g)
⅔ cup light or dark brown sugar, firmly packed (135g)
½ cup granulated sugar (100g)
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon (optional but recommended)
¼ teaspoon table salt, heaping
½ cup unsalted butter, melted (113g)
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Instructions
00:00 Introduction
For the Cake
00:33 Preheat oven to 350F (175C) and grease and flour a 9x9” (23x23cm) pan or spray with baking spray.
00:38 In a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer, stir together flour, sugars, baking powder, salt, and baking soda until completely combined.
00:54 Using an electric mixer, add butter just 1 tablespoon at a time, not adding the next tablespoon until the previous has been completely incorporated. Once all butter has been added, mixture will resemble coarse sandy crumbs.
02:33 In a separate bowl or large measuring cup, whisk together sour cream, egg, egg yolk and vanilla extract until well-combined.
03:03 Turn mixer speed to low and slowly add sour cream mixture into batter, stirring until completely combined. Be sure to pause and scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl as needed. Once finished, the batter should be smooth and silky.
03:47 Spread into prepared pan and set aside while you prepare the crumb topping.
Crumb Topping
04:08 In a medium-sized bowl, whisk together flour, sugars, salt, and cinnamon.
04:45 Drizzle melted butter over the flour mixture and use a fork to toss the ingredients together until you have a clumpy crumble topping.
05:10 Scatter crumb topping evenly over the batter in your pan.
05:20 Transfer to 350F (175C) oven and bake for 45-50 minutes or a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs. Allow to cool before cutting and serving.
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Recipe here: Stephanie Jaworski of Joyofbaking.com demonstrates how to make a Coffee Cake. This is your classic 'crumb' Coffee Cake recipe. It has a rich and buttery flavor and soft moist texture. But what makes this Coffee Cake so unique is the grainy crumb mixture that sits on top of the cake plus runs through its center. You can serve this cake while it's still warm from the oven, at room temperature, or even cold.
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Classic Homemade Coffee Cake Recipe
This delicious easy-to-make classic homemade coffee cake recipe is the perfect sweet treat to serve up for breakfast or brunch. I make mine extra thick with extra streusel for the most delicious coffee cake ever.
Coffee cake has been around for generations and is said to have originated in Dresden, Germany. The Danish however was responsible for enhancing the cake to make it sweet and introduced eating it with coffee.
This simple to make cake is one of my favorite things to enjoy with coffee in the morning time as it can balance out the flavors of sweet cake with bitter coffee, much like how you enjoy beignets with chicory coffee.
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Ingredients for this recipe:
For the Filling Layer:
• 1 cup packed light brown sugar
• ½ cup all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
For the Streusel:
• 1 stick of unsalted butter
• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 cups packed light brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon sea salt
For the Cake Batter:
• 2 sticks unsalted butter
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 5 large eggs
• 3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 ½ cups whole milk
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CAKE SPONGES
225g plain flour
225g unsalted butter (softened)
225g golden caster sugar (divided)
4 egg yolks
90g espresso (approx. 10% strength)
14g baking powder
6g Glycerol Monosterate
4 egg whites
4g salt
- Cream together the butter and 100g of sugar for 5-6 minutes or until light and fluffy
- Add the eggs yolks one at a one and mix completely before adding the next one.
- Add the baking powder and GMS
- With the mixer on low, add half the espresso followed by half the flour. Combine and then add the remaining espresso and flour. Mix until just combined.
- In a clean bowl, add the egg whites, 125g sugar and the salt.
- Whisk until stiff peaks form in the meringue.
- Fold the meringue into the batter, a third at a time.
- Prepare two springform pans by greasing and flouring them.
- Split the batter evenly between the two.
- Bake at 175C-180C for approximately 25 minutes or until the internal temperature is 96C.
- Cool completely before frosting.
COFFEE BUTTER
200g unsalted butter (softened)
100g filter roast coffee
Saucepan method:
- Combine the coffee and butter in a small sauce pan and heat on low. Do not allow the water to boil out of the butter.
- Infuse for 1 hour
- Strain
Sous vide method:
- Combine coffee and butter in vacuum bag
- Add some cutlery to the inside of the bag to prevent floating
- Cook sous vide at 90C for one hour
- Strain
COFFEE SWISS MERINGUE BUTTERCREAM
85g egg whites (2 or 3 eggs depending on size)
155g sugar
3g salt
100g coffee butter (softened)
180g unsalted butter (softened)
- Combine egg whites, sugar and salt.
- Heat mixture over boiling water, while stirring continuously, until it reaches 85C
- Transfer to mixer and whisk on high for approximately 10 minutes, until meringue is stiff and shiny and only warm to the touch (32C)
- Keep the mixer running and slowly add the butter, approximately 1 tablespoon at a time, until fully combined.
- If not using immediately then refrigerate. Before using it should be brought back up to 20C-23C and whipped again.
CAKE BUILD:
- Spread only a thin layer of frosting on the first tier of the cake
- Place the second tier on top
- Frost the top of the cake, and decorate as you see fit. Don’t be too generous with the frosting as it can overpower the cake underneath.
Rich Coffee Cotton Sponge Cake Recipe
Rich Coffee Cotton Sponge Cake – Coffee is my big time favourite. In fact, I can’t live with having a cup a coffee everyday. Not forgetting, coffee cake is also one of my favourite flavour of all time. If you love coffee, you’ll love coffee cake too. You might think it’s a bitter cake. No, it’s not bitter at all. The cake is well balanced with cream cheese flavour and whipped cream in it. Although I wanted a darker colour for the cake, never try to attempt to add any cocoa powder in it, that wouldn’t be a coffee flavoured cake. I am using good instant espresso coffee, I didn’t use any coffee essence (I don’t like artificial flavour for coffee) I hope you’re inspired to make this cake. Enjoy!
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Ingredients:
Coffee Sponge Cake
I am using 7x7x3-inch pan
2 tsp instant espresso
2 tbsp hot milk
5 egg yolks
60g (1/3 cup) fine sugar
80g (1/3 cup + 1 tbsp) vegetable oil
80ml (¼ cup + 1 tbsp]) whole milk, room temp
¼ tsp salt
150g (1 ¼ cup]) cake flour
5 egg whites
½ tsp cream of tartar
75g (1/3 cup + 1 tbsp) fine sugar
Cream Cheese Frosting
2½ tsp instant espresso
1 tbsp hot water
400g (1½ cup + 2 tbsp) whipping cream [I have used a sweetened whipping cream. if yours is not sweetened, just add 30g or 2 tbsp sugar]
170g (¾ cup) cream cheese
coffee syrup (2 tsp coffee +2 tsp sugar +1 tbsp hot water)
Toasted walnuts (sprinkles)
tip #869 for the deco piping
Instructions:
Coffee Sponge Cake
1. Preheat oven at 160°C/320°F.
2. Dissolve espresso powder in hot water. Make sure there is no coffee lumps. Set aside.
3. Separate the eggs, one bowl with egg whites and the other with egg yolks.
4. In the egg yolks bowl, add in the sugar. Mix until well combined or until the colour is slightly pale. Add the oil and then milk, mix until well combined respectively.
5. Add in the espresso coffee mix. Add salt. If you wish to add coffee essence, you can add ½ tsp, but I prefer pure coffee flavour. Mix until well combined.
6. Sift the cake flour in 3 batches. Use a whisk to gently mix the batter. Mix just until the flour disappear, do not over mix. Set aside.
7. In the bowl of egg whites, add cream of tartar. Mix on low speed for few seconds until foamy. Add the sugar in 3 batches. After adding the first batch, increase speed to high and continue mixing. After add the last batch of sugar, mix until stiff peaks formed. It’s important that you reach stiff peaks as this is the key to rise the cake.
8. Add the egg white meringue into the yolk batter in 3 batches. Use a whisk to gently mix just until the white disappear, do not over mix. Mix in a circular motion. Switch to a spatula to scrape the bowl to ensure even mixing.
9. Transfer the batter into a 7x7x3-inch pan, greased and lined with parchment paper. Use a chopsticks or a skewer to do as shown to release trapped air bubbles. Tap the pan on the table few times to further release air bubbles.
10. Bake in preheated oven at 160°C/320°F for about 50-55 min, or until inserted skewer comes out clean.
11. Let the cake cool on cooling rack before slicing the cake.
12. This is cake, I slice into 4 layers so that I want to add more cream frosting in between. Set aside while working on the next step.
Cream Cheese Frosting
1. In a chilled bowl, add the whipping cream. Chill bowl will help thickened up the cream fast and stable. Mix on low speed for few seconds.
2. Add in the cream cheese. Continue mixing on low speed for few seconds, then increase to high speed. Mix until the mixture is stiff, be careful not to over mix. Stop the mixing to check the consistency every 10 seconds. As soon as it reaches stiff, stop the mixing. Transfer about a quarter cream into a piping bag. I am just doing a variation to give the cake some colour contrast. This is optional. Set aside.
3. For the remaining cream, add the espresso coffee mixture. Give it a quick mix, just until combined. Do not over mix as it has already reached stiff earlier. Transfer into a piping bag and time to assemble the cake.
Assemble the cake
1. Get ready the coffee syrup and the 2 flavoured frostings.
2. Chill the cake before trimming the sides.
3. Combined the remaining two flavoured frosting into another piping bag to pipe some deco. I am using tip #869.
4. Cake is ready to serve.
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