Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Coffee Cake

By srumbel

Ingredients

• For the Cake
• 15 oz. can pumpkin
• 2 c. sugar
• 1/2 c. vegetable oil
• 1/2 c. sour cream
• 2 tsp. baking soda
• 1 Tbsp. pumpkin pie spice
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 3 eggs
• 2 c. flour
• 1 bag mini chocolate chips
• For the Cream Cheese Layer
• 1 (8 oz. package cream cheese
• 1/2 c. sugar
• 1/2 tsp. vanilla
• For the Crumb Topping
• 1/2 c. flour
• 1/4 c. sugar
• 1/4 c. butter
• cinnamon, to taste

Details

Servings 1
Adapted from favfamilyrecipes.com

Preparation

Step 1

We made this Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Coffee Cake yesterday for a Sunday morning brunch and I couldn’t stop eating it!  I had to take some to my sisters before I ate the entire pan. Then I was wishing it wasn’t all gone.  It’s a struggle.  You can easily leave out the chocolate chips if you want it to be plain pumpkin, but I think that the chocolate chips in this are so yummy!  Definitely use the semi sweet mini chocolate chips, I think that they distribute themselves more evenly than regular chocolate chips and you get a little chocolate in every bite.  Whatever you do, don’t skip the cream cheese layer!  The crisp crumb topping followed by the melty sweet cream cheese layer is unbelievable.  I was in love at first bite.  We also topped it off with some whipped cream and mini chocolate chips but this is totally optional.

, both are so good, you can’t go wrong!  I’m thinking that I can make the Pumpkin Coffee Cake during Fall and the Blueberry Coffee Cake in the spring. ?  And definitely our

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl blend together all the cake ingredients except for the eggs, flour, and chocolate chips. Thoroughly blend the eggs in one at a time, then blend in the flour until it's completely incorporated into the batter. Then gently stir in about 3/4 of the bag of mini chocolate chips. Pour the batter into a 9x13 inch pan that has been lined with cooking spray.

In a medium size bowl, blend together the cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla. Spoon the mix into a sandwich bag and cut a small hole in one corner. Pipe the cream cheese mix all over the top of the cake batter, it doesn't need to be pretty. Also, don't try to spread it out, it will even out while it bakes.

Combine the crumb topping ingredients in a medium size bowl with a pastry blender until all the ingredients are thoroughly blended together. Do not soften the butter first! This takes a little work but is well worth it! Distribute the crumb topping all over the top, but don't pat it down.

Optional: serve with whipped topping and extra chocolate chips.

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