Streusel Coffee Cake Recipe

Ingredients

Topping:
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup sifted all-purpose flour (sift before measuring)
1/4 cup butter, room temperature
1 teaspoon cinnamon
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Cake:
1 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour (sift before measuring)
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg, beaten
3/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup melted butter
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preparation

Step 1

Topping. In small mixing bowl, combine topping ingredients. Blend with fork until crumbly. Set aside.

Sift 1 1/2 cups sifted flour with baking powder and salt into a bowl. In a medium bowl, beat together beaten egg and 3/4 cup sugar and 1/3 cup melted butter. Add milk and vanilla. Stir in flour mixture and mix well.

Pour batter into a greased and floured 8-inch square or 9-inch layer-cake pan. Sprinkle topping crumb mixture evenly over batter. Bake at 375° for 25 to 30 minutes, or until cake tests done. Partially cool in pan on wire rack. Cut coffee cake into squares while still warm.
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REVIEWS: (49)

Yum! This is the tastiest coffee cake recipe I have made yet. I do agree with other reviews the streusel topping isn't crumbly at all and should be tweaked. I also agree that the cake should be more dense. Regardless of the differences from traditional coffee cakes this recipe is absolutely delicious and I will be making it again.

Good recipe, had to modify topping portions. This is a very good recipe. I've made it 4 times now. The cake portion has turned out perfectly every time I made it. The topping portion was not crumbly and way too heavy based on original measurements. I wasn't sure if it was because I am in the south with heavy humidity. After 4 times, I've finally tweaked the topping to the below measurements. It came out perfect. 3/4 cup brown sugar (revised from 1/2 cup originally), 1/2 cup sifted flour (revised from 1/4 cup originally), 1/4 cup softened butter, 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon (revised from 1 tsp originally).

This is very yummy but I will agree that the streusal topping is a bit heavy. It turned out a bit ugly looking, so I would make it upside down if I were to make it again.

This is great! turned out perfect. When your baking you should always remember that the ingredients need to be exact. You need to measure everything out perfect or it will not turn out. Baking is not like cooking. It's much harder and recipes really can't be altered. You really can't substitute things when baking. If this cake didn't turn out for you, you probably did something wrong. A pinch of this and a pinch of that in baking doesn't work. Another thing to remember is that all your ingredients should be at room temp. It will make all the difference in the world. I would try it again and follow the recipe. I bet you'll have good luck the second time.

This coffee cake was super easy and yummy. My topping also fell into the center a little bit after I took it out. Overall a great recipe!

There are not a lot of recipes without nuts, fruit, and/or sour cream. This one is a great recipe. The user who said the topping sank to the bottom must have made an error in cooking. It is a very thick batter. The topping sat on top, and I popped it into the oven (which I started pre-heating when I started cooking).
It came out great!!

This is not a coffee cake!! I made this following the exact directions and it basically came out as plain yellow cake. Coffee cake should be crumbly and dense. This was way too fluffy, and although it did taste good, it was NOT what I was looking for. Also, the people on here were right about the "crumbly" topping. It turns to liquid and sinks into the cake. Wouldn't try this again.

This was awesome!!!!! This was soooo easy and probably the best coffee cake I have ever had. I did change one thing, after the cake cooled off a bit I drizzled a glaze (powdered sugar, milk) and my family loved it. It's all gone and they want more. Thanks for sharing.

Yummy! I doubled the entire recipe to make a dozen and a half muffins. I switched the butter in the recipe with veg oil and the vanilla with apple juice. I also cut three small apples into small pieces, mixed them with a little brown sugar and cinnamon, and baked them for about 15 min. I folded them into the batter. The muffins came out delicious. They were a nice hearty breakfast and my kids loved them!!!

Loved this recipe. My goal was to make a coffee cake for a bible study, wanted to use up some rhubarb, and didn't have a lot of time. I'm lazy, so just mixed all the dry ingredients, did not sift the flour, then added the liquids then mixed in a few handfuls of 1/4 size pieces of rhubarb (no additional sugar). Added the topping the last 10 minutes and it turned out great! I was asked to share the recipe. My suggestion would be to decrease the amount of butter in the topping to make it more crumbly. Would definitely make again, since there's no ingredients not in my kitchen.

Delicious and Moist! This cake is fantastic! I just made it and I'm eating it now! It is a great recipe- I even added a splash of coffee at the end for even more flavors.

Loved it! Just like everyone else said, this is a great recipe because it's easy to make, and all the ingredients are things you'd probably have around the kitchen anyways (though I was actually out of cinnamon, so I used a pinch of nutmeg and it still tasted great). Baked it at 375 for 28 minutes in a 9" round pan and it came out moist and fluffy. The only issue I had was with the topping... it was actually more wet as opposed to crumbly, so I did have a bit of sinking, but it actually still worked out really well anyways. I would definitely recomend this for a nice, easy recipe. It came out better than I even expected.