Apple Coffee Cake Recipe (2024)

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If you like cake for breakfast or dessert you’ll love this easy Apple Coffee Cake Recipe! Topped with streusel and cream cheese glaze! Be sure to check out my Classic Apple Cake recipe while you’re at it.

This Apple Coffee Cake was something I whipped up in a flash because we were invited over to dinner at a friends’ house. It’s a pretty simple cake, but looks much fancier than that, don’t you think? This is because of the glaze, the streusel, it’s on a cake plate, it’s round and not in its baking pan still!

Apple Coffee Cake

I needed something to take and this is the dessert I came up with from what I had on hand. As I was photographing the finished product I was thinking to myself how easy this cake was to make, but how semi-upscale it looked! Basically, if you have a very plain recipe for something, try adding a glaze and/or a streusel. That will jazz it right up and make people want you to be their live-in chef.

For more apple cakes try these out:Applesauce Sheet Cake with Divinity Frosting and Nutritious and Delicious Apple Oat Cake.

Shall we make some cake?

To start making this Apple Coffee Cake you’ll need to gather up some dry ingredients, wet ingredients, and apples.

Dry Ingredients

• All-Purpose Flour –this fills out the cake and makes it cake!
• Baking Powder –makes the cake light and fluffy.
• Salt –enhances the flavors.
• Baking Soda –this helps the cake rise.
• Granulated Sugar –to sweeten.
• Cinnamon –a super good spice that compliments apples!
• Nutmeg –nutmeg helps bring out and enhance the cinnamon taste as well as adding its own flavor to the mix.

Wet Ingredients

• Apple –use whatever apples you have on hand and cube them.
• Canola Oil –this helps the texture of the cake stay consistent throughout.
• Eggs –adds structure to the cake.
• Low Fat Buttermilk – helps moisten the cake but also provides a slightly tangy flavor.
• Low Fat Sour Cream –another moistening agent. If you don’t have buttermilk or sour cream on hand just replace with milk.
• Vanilla Extract –this flavors the cake.

How to Make Apple Coffee Cake

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Spray a 9-inch springform pan with non-stick cooking spray and set aside.
2. In a large bowl, whisk all dry ingredients together. Make a well in the center and pour all wet ingredients in. Slowly start mixing the wet ingredients into the dry and stir until just combined.

Apples

3. Find an apple in your fridge, peel it, core it and dice it up. I almost grated my apple because I despise huge chunks of fruit in my cakes, but then changed my mind at the last minute and cubed mine up into tiny little pieces…because I can. That’s why.
4. Now pour in the apple cubes and stir it up. Voila! Cake batter.

5. Pour that bowl of goodness into the springform pan and smooth the top.

Streusel

Now onto the streusel. Warning: I made a huge amount of streusel. I mean HUGE. I recommend halving the recipe. If you are abnormal like me and feel the need to make a huge crust o’ streusel on your cake then be my guest. But, for you normal folk, start with half! Now, streusel is super simple to make and makes everything it comes in contact with taste better. I heart streusel. You’ll need:

• Oats –crumbly delicious texture.
• All-Purpose Flour –to balance out the moisture of the butter.
• Sugar –to sweeten.
• Butter –this helps keep all the dry ingredients together.
• Cinnamon –to flavor the streusel.
• Walnuts – a crunchy, nutty addition.

How to Make Streusel

1. In a small bowl, stir all ingredients for streusel together until butter pieces are small chunks found throughout the mixture.
2. Basically, you want to disperse the butter through the dry ingredients so that when it bakes, it becomes a crusty hot mess over the apple cake. Not a powdery hot mess. There is a huge difference between the two.

3. Sprinkle over top of the cake and bake 45-55 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted. Remove from oven and cool.

Cream Cheese Glaze

This amazing cream cheese glaze takes this Apple Coffee Cake over the top!

• Cream Cheese –softened! The main star of the glaze with all of its creamy, tangy goodness.
• Butter – softened! Another fat to flavor the glaze. You can also use margarine.
• Powdered Sugar –to sweeten.
• Vanilla –to flavor.
• Milk –to thin out the glaze! You can add as much or as litten as you’d like.

1. Before serving, whip cream cheese and margarine together until smooth. Stir in powdered sugar, vanilla, and milk until smooth and runny. Add the milk slowly until desired drizzling consistency is reached.
2. Un-hinge springform pan and place cake on serving platter. Drizzle with glaze and serve.

More Recipes like Apple Coffee Cake!

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      • Apple Cinnamon Cream Cheese Danish
      • Buttery Apple Pie Recipe
      • Salted Caramel Apple Crumble Recipe
      • Buttery Apple Crisp Recipe

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