Coffee cakes are simple to make and typically consist of a sweet, flaky cake topped with a crunchy topping of nuts, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Drake’s Coffee Cake is a popular prepackaged option. To make a coffee cake at home, combine flour, sugar, eggs, milk, salt, baking powder, cinnamon, brown sugar, and chopped nuts. Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 20 minutes.
There are almost as many varieties of coffee cakes as there are brands of coffee. All are relatively simple to prepare, and most have a number of similarities. Typically, coffee cakes are a sweet, flaky form of cake topped with a crunchy topping of nuts, brown sugar, and cinnamon.
If you choose not to make a coffee cake from scratch, there are plenty available for purchase. Probably the most famous of these is Drake’s Coffee Cake, which gained national notoriety when it became a recurring fixture of the 1990s TV comedy Seinfeld. Drakes is the same company that makes Ring Dings, Yodels and Devil Dogs. All of these prepackaged snacks are adored by their fans, even though most are reviled by nutritionists and diet fanatics.
To make a coffee cake at home, you must first acquire the necessary ingredients. While many coffee cakes include extra items like fruit, yogurt, sour cream, or cream cheese, it’s hard to beat the original version. Whether it’s simply tradition, myth or gustatory fact, coffee cake and coffee seem to go together like cake and ice cream.
The basic ingredients for making a coffee cake include flour, granulated sugar, eggs, milk, salt, baking powder, cinnamon, brown sugar, and your choice of chopped nuts. If you have a nut allergy, the final ingredient can be omitted or replaced with a crunchy grain like walnuts.
The basic instructions for making coffee cake are as follows. Combine two eggs, a cup or more of granulated sugar, three cups of flour, four teaspoons of baking powder, and a quarter teaspoon of salt in a mixing bowl. Add a few tablespoons of vegetable or canola oil and pour the batter into an appropriately sized baking pan. Theoretically, one could substitute olive oil or peanut oil for the latter ingredient, but attempting to create a low-fat or heart-healthy coffee cake somehow seems a bit contradictory and sacrilegious.
Next, mix in some melted butter, cinnamon, a small amount of flour, and the chopped nuts. Stir this mixture until you reach your desired consistency. If the topping resembles a paste, add more melted butter. The topping should be smooth and flow freely when poured, but shouldn’t be too runny. Smooth the topping onto the batter that is in the pan.
At this point, slide your coffee cake into a preheated, 350 degrees Fahrenheit (176.6 degrees Celsius) oven. Twenty minutes in the oven is usually enough, however to make a coffee cake close to perfection, it is best to judge its progress visually. When the topping looks brown and crumbly, the coffee cake is ready to eat.
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