Making a coffee cake is a pure pleasure! If you decide to give a coffee cake recipe a try, just follow the instructions below. And if you like coffee the process is not only easy and pleasant, it's truly inspiring!
Preparing The Ingredients
Ingredients 2 cups flour 1 3/4 cups brown sugar 1 teaspoon baking soda 2 teaspoons vanilla extract or vanillin powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup butter 1 cup strong coffee 1/2 cup buttermilk 2 eggs |
Important! Coffee must be freshly brewed. Oh, it's hot! And smells so good!!! |
And Making It Happen
Put the butter and sugar into the hot coffee. It melts down and can be easily mixed with a mixer. |
Add buttermilk, eggs, salt, baking soda and vanilla extract and mix thoroughly. |
Fold in the flour. And if you like those tiny crispy particles in your cake you may put one tablespoon of instant coffee additionally, but it's optional. |
Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease and butter the baking form. I am using a pudding baking form just because I like the shape. However any other cake form fits too. You may use a square, a round one or for small cupcakes. |
Pour the batter into the form. It has a lovely beige color, not to dark and may be with little brown dots of coffee. Put into the oven for 50-60 minutes. If you are using cupcakes form time will be shorter. Test them with a toothpick - it should come out clean. |
Take a bit of patience. You may cook a custard meanwhile or any other frosting you find suitable for this cake. Mine was with custard. When the cake is ready, take it out of the oven. |
Let the cake cool for 20-30 minutes and turn onto a plate. You may have to cut the top if you are using the same form as me for the cake to be steady on the plate. |
Cover with custard or frosting, make yourself a cup of coffee or tea an cut a lovely piece of freshly baked magic! Tastes better when shared with friends ;) |
Bon Appetite! |
You may also enjoy the video for coffee cake recipe.
Coffee Cake Recipe F.A.Q.
Is there something I can replace buttermilk with? |
You can use low fat yoghurt. It works perfectly! |
I want my cake to taste very-very coffee, just like freshly brewed coffee. But when it's baked the aroma is partly gone. How can I change it? |
It's not a secret that coffee smell will evaporate partially while baking. But you can enhance the taste if you soak the baked cake with coffee syrup or coffee liqueur by sprinkling a bit of it before frosting. In this case I would recommend to consume the cake immediately since it may be not that good if stored soaked long. |
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