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Apple Coffee Cake at Home

18 servings

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Apple Coffee Cake at Home

Enjoy this moist and sweet Apple Coffee Cake with a brown sugar streusel and an apple cider glaze. The best fall breakfast or dessert!

It is satisfying to using applesauce in baked goods; try this applesauce cake or applesauce muffins next!

Apple Coffee Cake

Apple Coffee Cake has become my new excuse to enjoy cake for breakfast on as many Fall mornings as possible. Is anyone else with me?!

Packed with flavor, this cake is dense, moist, and rich, just as a good coffee cake should be. The streusel topping adds a crisp and sweet touch, and the glaze is the reliable finishing touch! Serve it with a cup of hot from-scratch apple cider and it’s game over!

Prepping wet and dry ingredients, then mixing together until the batter is smooth.

Ingredients

Dry Ingredients for Coffee Cake

  • Flour: Provides structure.
  • Cinnamon, apple pie spice, nutmeg: Add flavor.
  • Baking soda, baking powder: Helps the cake rise.
  • Salt: Enhances flavor.

Wet Ingredients for Coffee Cake

  • Oil: Adds moisture.
  • Brown sugar, maple syrup: Sweeten and add depth.
  • Heavy cream: Increases richness.
  • Vanilla extract: Adds aroma to your apple coffee cake.
  • Applesauce: Adds moisture and sweetness.

Streusel Topping

  • Flour, sugar, spices: Create a crumbly texture.
  • Butter: Binds the streusel and adds flavor.
Batter in a pan, with crumble topping being made and added on top, and the glaze being prepared.

How To Make Apple Coffee Cake

  1. Heat: Oven to 350°F. Grease the pan.
  2. Dry Mix: Whisk together dry ingredients.
  3. Wet Mix: Combine wet ingredients.
  4. Combine: Mix wet into dry ingredients. Spread evenly in the pan.
  5. Streusel: Mix streusel ingredients together. Sprinkle over batter.
  6. Bake: 35-40 minutes until a toothpick comes out mostly clean.
  7. Glaze: Mix together glaze ingredients. Drizzle over cooled apple coffee cake.

Tips For Success

  • Cool Melted Butter: Allow melted butter to reach room temperature before using in the streusel to avoid melting the sugar and causing greasiness.
  • Avoid Substitutions:
    • The cake’s dense texture is crucial; substitutions can alter this.
    • Do not replace heavy cream with milk or maple syrup with other sweeteners, as it may negatively impact the cake’s outcome.

Quick Tip

Alternative to Apple Cider in Glaze: If you don’t want to buy apple cider, use apple juice, heavy cream, or milk as a substitute. Add the liquid gradually, as a small amount is enough. If the glaze becomes too thin, thicken it with more powdered sugar.

Slice of delectable dessert, freshly served with drizzled icing on top, enticing and ready for enjoyment.

Storage

  • Storage Tips: Store unglazed cake wrapped at room temperature for 1-2 days or in the fridge for up to 1 week. Keep the glaze in the fridge.
  • Freezing: Wrap individual pieces of the unglazed cake and freeze for up to 3 months. Thaw at room temperature or in the fridge.

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