Quick Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake

Submitted by Bev I Am

"This quick and delicious coffeecake comes from Cook's Illustrated Magazine. They suggest that to make this recipe even easier, to prepare the streusel ingredients and measure out the dry ingredients for the cake the night before."

 

• Ready In: 1hr
• Ingredients: 15
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• Streusel

• 1⁄3 cup light brown sugar, packed (2 1/3 ounces)
• 1⁄3 cup granulated sugar (2 1/3 ounces)
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted and cooled
• 1 1 cup almonds or 1 cup walnuts, chopped coarse

• Cake

• 3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1⁄4 teaspoon table salt
• 1 3⁄4 cups buttermilk or 1 3/4 cups plain yogurt
• 1 cup packed light brown sugar (7 ounces)
• 1 cup granulated sugar (7 ounces)
• 3 large eggs
• 7 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled

directions

1. For the streusel: Mix sugars, cinnamon, and melted butter together in medium bowl until mixture resembles wet sand; stir in nuts and set aside.
2. For the cake: Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Generously coat 13 by 9-inch baking pan with nonstick cooking spray.
3. Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt together in large bowl. Whisk buttermilk, sugars, eggs, and melted butter in separate bowl until smooth.
4. Using rubber spatula, gently fold egg mixture into flour mixture and stir until batter looks smooth and well combined.
5. Using rubber spatula, scrape batter into prepared pan and smooth top.
6. Sprinkle streusel evenly over batter.
7. Bake until streusel is golden and toothpick inserted into center comes out with just a few crumbs attached, 40 to 45 minutes.
8. Cool cake on wire rack for 15 minutes before slicing and serving.
9. Serves 8.

Reviews

[Tammi420]

Excellent recipe, the cake is nice and moist. I used plain yogurt instead of buttermilk, and I used pecans in the streusel topping. I must confess I doubled the recipe for the streusel, and put the extra streusel topping in a container in the refrigerator to sprinkle on top of oatmeal at breakfast.

 

[Michelle from the W]

This is a good basic coffee cake, but a bit of an eggy texture for us. I think maybe I would reduce to 2 eggs next time? It baked up perfectly at 350 for 40 minutes. I used all buttermilk. I used a Pampered Chef 13X9 pan so it was plenty tall for this size of cake. Very easy to make.

 

[Roxygirl in Colorado]

My favorite treat for weekends is a piece of coffee cake. I have several years of Cook's Illust. and am a big fan. I used 1 1/2 buttermilk/1/4 cup plain yogurt and chopped pecans. I baked in a glass pan (325). It took longer to bake than expected and I did have to cover the pan with foil the last 10 min. of baking because it was browning too fast, with a still gooey center. I think the glass pan made it much trickier to bake. I need to buy another metal pan and will use that next time. This recipe is nice because it is lower fat than their other crumb cake (I think that uses 10 tbs in the cake part and extra in the topping). Thanks Bev, for posting. Note: I just noticed the reviewer's photo and she used a glass pan, too. I am thinking that maybe she didn't reduce the temp and it cooked too fast, etc. Roxygirl

 

[Crocheting Mama]

This did not bake up light for me. The sides bubbles over the streusel and so didn't have the intended effect. It tasted ok but a little thick.

 

[Calee]

Outstanding coffeecake, I love the cinnamon flavor. I used buttermilk and walnuts. Bev your instructions were great, this coffecake bakes up very high and moist and light. Great idea to make the streusel the night before it does speed up the prep time. Thanks for a great treat.