
Grease a baking pan well and add your batter, then with the reserved crumbs, make a super easy cinnamon sugar crumble topping. Create streusel and add batter to the pan Once you've created a nice fine crumbed mixture, reserve some for your streusel, and then finish making the batter by adding the milk, whisked eggs, and vanilla extract. Set aside some of the crumbs and then finish the batter I find that using your hands for this step is the easiest. Plus, you don't need a special flour sifter (although they are pretty cool), all you really need is a fine-mesh sieve.Īnother bonus of sifting is then the flour will be nice and light and perfect for mixing it into the creamed butter and sugar to a fine crumb mixture. For this classic coffee cake where fluffy is the goal, in my opinion, any additional aeration is worth it. There are some arguments about whether or not sifting flour is even worth the effort. Add sifted flour and baking powder and create a fine crumb Under creamed will look white and gritty. You'll know your butter and sugar are properly creamed when it's turned to a pale yellow color and is creamy. We use our favorite hand mixer for this, but you can also use your stand mixer or get a great arm workout in by doing it by hand with a fork. Creaming adds little pockets of air and that aeration is what gives it that perfect texture. This is one of the most important steps to ensuring that your coffee cake has the right light and fluffy texture. Step-by-Step Instructions Cream your butter and sugar

While the traditional cake baking in this house is usually done by my husband, My Mom's Classic Coffee Cake is so simple and easy to make that anyone can make it! Ingredients Needed Crumb Cake is another kind of cake similar to coffee cake, but it typically has a much thicker layer of streusel on top of the cake, while most coffee cakes, like my mom's, have a much greater cake to streusel ratio. No coffee in it, just the perfect simple sweet cake to serve with it. Very simply, a classic coffee cake is a single-layer cake that's made from flour, butter, and sugar and served with coffee or tea. Having not grown up with it, his experiences with it were what he saw with the other pastries behind the glass at a local coffee shop.

My husband's exact question to me when I started making this recipe. No dense dry crumb cake here - this one is a tried and true loved and devoured coffee accompaniment dream. It's so incredibly easy to make and so moist and fluffy. Every single holiday, from Mother's Day to Christmas my mom always had this classic coffee cake waiting for us. It's finally here! After posting on my Instagram stories a poll to see whether or not you all wanted my Mom's Classic Coffee Cake recipe, and the results were a resounding YES, here it is! This is the coffee cake of my childhood. It's fluffy, soft, sweet, moist, and topped with a sweet cinnamon streusel. It's a staple brunch treat! My Mom's Classic Coffee Cake is a tried and true recipe and is exactly what you'd expect.
