Easy Peasy Coffee Cake Recipes

QUICK COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9 inch square pan.
• In a large bowl mix together the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt. Cut in the shortening with a pastry blender to the size of small peas.
• In a separate small bowl, beat the egg well, then stir in the milk and vanilla. Add the egg-milk mixture to the flour mixture all at once. Stir carefully until just blended.
• Pour batter into prepared pan and spread evenly. Drizzle top with melted butter.
• In a small bowl mix together brown sugar, 2 tablespoons flour and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Sprinkle on top of cake. Bake in the preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.

QUICK AND EASY COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Into a mixing bowl sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar.
• Cut butter into the dry ingredients with a fork or pastry blender.
• In a separate bowl combine egg with milk; add to flour mixture.
• Stir until mixture is well blended and smooth.
• Spoon into a greased and floured 9-inch layer pan.
• Spread dough evenly.
• Brush top of dough with melted butter.
• Combine sugar, flour, and cinnamon; sift over the top of the cake, spreading with a fork to cover dough evenly.
• Bake at 400° for 25 to 30 minutes.
• Cut coffee cake in wedges; serve warm from the pan.

COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 160ºC/140ºFan/Gas 3/320ºF Line two 8 inch (20cm) baking tins with lightly greased baking paper.
• Add the butter, golden caster sugar, eggs, self-raising flour, baking powder and dissolved coffee into a large mixing bowl. Beat all the ingredients together until well mixed.
• Divide the cake batter between the two prepared baking tins. This will be approx. 420g of batter into each tin. Bake in the centre of the preheated oven for 28 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cakes comes out clean. Properly baked cakes will shrink away from the sides of the tin slightly and feel springy when touched with your finger. Remove from the oven and leave in the tins while you make the coffee sugar syrup.
• To make the coffee sugar syrup add the demerara sugar, instant coffee and boiling water to a jug and whisk vigorously until the coffee and sugar have dissolved. Leaving the sponges in their tins, prick them all over with a fork then brush the coffee sugar syrup on top. Set aside while you make the coffee buttercream.
• To make the coffee buttercream add the butter, milk, dissolved coffee and icing sugar to a large bowl and beat for several minutes until smooth. You can use a handheld electric whisk for this or a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. When the cakes are completely cool, turn them out of their tins, place one cake on a cake stand or plate and spread it with half of the buttercream. Place the other cake on top and spread over the remaining buttercream.
• To make the walnut praline add the water and golden caster sugar to a small saucepan set over a very low heat. Let the mixture come to the boil for a minute or two, swirl the pan to keep the sugar from catching on the bottom but don't stir it. Take it off the heat, add the walnuts and stir them through the hot sugar mixture. Pour the nuts onto a piece of baking paper and leave to cool. When they are cool enough to handle transfer them one by one and use them to decorate around the edge of the cake.

EASY STREUSEL COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375.
• Stir together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
• Combine egg, milk, and oil.
• Add flour mixture to egg mix.
• and mix well.
• Pour into 9 inch greased pan.
• Combine topping ingredients and sprinkle over batter.
• bake for about 25 minutes.

EASY COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine the flour, salt and baking powder; add to creamed mixture and beat just until combined. , Spread 3-3/4 cups batter into a greased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Carefully spoon pie filling to within 1 in. of edges. Spoon remaining batter over filling. , Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean (cover loosely with foil if edges brown too quickly). Cool on a wire rack. , In a small bowl, combine the confectioners' sugar, extract and enough milk to achieve desired consistency. Drizzle over coffee cake.

EASY COFFEE CAKES

Steps:

• Using a cake mixer, mix all the ingredients together except the coffee. The mix should be not too firm and not too runny. Once mixed slowly mix in half of the dissolved coffee.
• Divide the cake mixture between 2 lined small cake tins (about 7" ish). Heat the oven to 190 degrees and bake for about 20 minutes. A skewer should come out clean when dipped in the cake.
• Once cooked remove from the oven and stand on a wire rack for a few minutes until cool then turn out on the rack till completely cool.
• Once the cakes are cool make the butter Icing by combining the softened butter with the icing sugar. When mixed gradually add half of the remaining coffee mixture. Sandwich the 2 halves together with the butter icing and dust the top with icing sugar.
• If you want a larger cake then just double the quantities, and if you want a really buttery cake then make extra butter icing and top the cake too!

EASY SOUR CREAM COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in extracts. Combine the flour, baking powder and baking soda; add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream. , Spread half of the batter in a greased and floured 10-in. fluted tube pan. Make a well in the center of the batter. Combine filling ingredients; sprinkle into well. Carefully cover with remaining batter. , Bake at 350° for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Combine glaze ingredients; drizzle over warm cake.

COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan. Line and butter two 18cm sandwich tins. Add the sugar and butter to a bowl and whisk until very fluffy and pale.
• Whisk the eggs in a mug with a fork, then add them gradually to the mixture with 1 tbsp of flour each time. (Make sure you don't use all the flour.) When the eggs have been fully combined into the mix, add the rest of the flour and fold it in gently.
• Add the dissolved coffee to the mixture, still folding. Divide into the sandwich tins and cook for 25-30 min until risen and firm and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Leave to cool in the tin for 5 mins then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely. Can be frozen at this stage.
• Meanwhile, make the icing by beating the icing sugar with the butter until light and fluffy, then add the dissolved coffee. Whisk, then cover and set aside until ready to ice the cake.
• Spread half the icing on the bottom of one sponge and spread the strawberry jam on the bottom of the other, if using. Sandwich together, then spread the remaining icing on top. Decorate with walnuts or cherries, if you like.