

That being said, if you’re looking to make this gluten free, your best bet is to use a 1 for 1 gluten free flour.

There are three parts to this recipe: the cake, the cinnamon swirl, the crumb, and the glaze.

It’ll still be delicious! Coffee Cake Ingredients All of that being said, you can absolutely skip that ingredient and make the traditional coffee-less way. You see, I snuck some espresso powder into the cinnamon swirl, and it adds a delightful yet subtle coffee flavor as well as helps keep the color of the swirl dark and defined. And 99.9% of recipe do not contain a single ounce of coffee in the actual cake.īut after much thought, I decided what the heck… I’m going to break tradition and make a coffee cake that actually has a little caffeine in there! Which is exactly what I did here. The only thing better than coffee cake? Coffee Cake with Streusel Topping! The super buttery cake batter bakes up rich and dense, almost like pound cake, and is sprinkled with a generous amount of butter crumb topping.Įvery time I post a coffee cake recipe… I get the same question over and over again: why doesn’t this recipe HAVE coffee in it?!Īnd I totally get it, I mean, you’d think a recipe that has the word COFFEE in the title would contain said ingredient.īut alas, coffee cake is actually a butter crumb cake meant to be enjoy with a cup coffee.
