Coffee loaf cake recipe is the perfect accompaniment for your morning coffee or afternoon tea. It even includes a layer of sweet, crunchy streusel on top of the loaf. The flavor is delicious and the texture fantastic.
What is Coffee Loaf Cake?
A coffee loaf cake is a great recipe that makes a delicious cake to accompany your morning coffee. It’s made with simple ingredients that make a batter that’s baked in a bread loaf pan.
Coffee loaf cake can be made in a variety of flavors, but our recipe is a cinnamon sugar streusel coffee cake.
How to Store Coffee Loaf Cake
Coffee loaf cake can be stored as a whole loaf or as individual slices. Here’s how to store it.
Room Temperature
To store it at room temperature, simply place the coffee cake in an airtight container.
Freezer
To store coffee cake in the freezer, first wrap it in plastic wrap then wrap it in aluminum foil and place it inside a zipped freezer bag. Be sure to date and label the contents of the package before freezing it.
How Long is Coffee Loaf Cake Good For?
The length of time coffee loaf cake is good for depends on how it’s stored. A fresh coffee cake is best when it’s fresh. But leftovers can be stored in an airtight container on the countertop for up to 3 days.
Frozen coffee cake is good for up to 2 months when wrapped properly and stored in an airtight container.
What to Serve with Coffee Loaf Cake Recipe
There are so many options of beverages to serve with coffee loaf cake recipe. Here are some of our popular suggestions.
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Coffee Loaf Cake Recipe
Following is the easy recipe for the delicious coffee loaf cake. We outlined the step-by-step instructions for making it.
Equipment
Following is the suggested equipment to make this recipe.
wire rack
small bowl
parchment paper
large mixing bowl
loaf tin
electric mixer
Ingredients
Topping
3 tbsp all-purpose flour
3 tbsp brown sugar
¼ tsp ground cinnamon
2 tbsp butter
3 tbsp chopped pecans or walnuts
Bread
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup granulated sugar
2 ½ tsp baking powder
1 tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp ground ginger
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
½ cup melted butter
2 eggs
1 cup buttermilk
Instructions
Grease a large loaf pan and set aside.
Prepare the topping by mixing together these dry ingredients. In a small bowl stir together flour, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Cut in butter until coarse crumbs begin to form. Stir in nuts. Set cinnamon-sugar mixture aside.
In a separate bowl, prepare the cake batter by stirring together dry ingredients including, flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, salt, and baking soda in a large bowl.
Add melted butter or room temperature butter and mix on low speed.
Add wet ingredients of egg and buttermilk to flour mixture. Stir just until moistened and batter is still lumpy.
Add half the batter to the loaf pan. Top with half of the crumb mixture.
Add the remaining batter and top with the remaining topping.
Bake at 400F degrees for 50 minutes baking time, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Serve warm and enjoy.
Substitutes and Recipe Notes
Following are some recipe alternations that you might be interested in trying out as well as some comments.
If you’d like a sweet touch to top off your coffee loaf cake, you can make a simple glaze using icing sugar and milk. To make some, mix ½ cup powdered sugar with a few drops of milk. Stir until well mixed. Apply the glaze to the top of the cake.
To try a richer flavor, add 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract to the cake batter recipe. Mix well.
Instant coffee granules can be added to some water and then added to the cake batter to give the actual cake a coffee flavor.
In regard to the butter, our recipe calls for melted butter, but you can also use a little bit of room temperature butter and cream butter into the cake batter. We don’t recommend using unsalted butter for this recipe.
Frequently Asked Questions
Following are frequently asked questions that relate to coffee loaf cake recipe. If you have a question that’s not answered here, feel free to drop it to use in the comments box below and we’ll be happy to respond.
What is the difference between a loaf cake and regular cake?
The difference between a loaf cake and a regular cake is its shape. A loaf cake is baked in a bread loaf pan and is eaten more like bread compared to a cake which can be made in a variety of shapes such as round, square, etc.
Why is my coffee cake not moist?
If you notice your coffee cake seems dry, there could be a few reasons for this. Perhaps the cake was baked too long which caused the cake to dry out.
Or it could be because of the method used to store the cake. If the cake was not covered and was left out in the open air for any length of time, this could also cause it to not be moist.
What is the difference between coffee cake and cinnamon cake?
The terms coffee cake and cinnamon cake can potentially be used interchangeably depending on the ingredients used to make the cake.
Our recipe, for example is a cinnamon cake because of the ingredients used to make it, but it could also be referred to as a coffee cake because it’s traditionally served with coffee.
What makes a coffee cake a coffee cake?
A food that’s referred to as a coffee cake can be one of two things. It can be a cake that’s made with coffee flavors. Or, it can be a cake that’s consumed by coffee lovers and eaten with their coffee.
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