French Vanilla Coffee Cake Recipes

FRENCH COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Sift flour, soda and baking powder together.
• Cream sugar and margarine together.
• and beat in eggs.
• Add 1/4 of flour mixture and 1/3 of sour cream; continue to alternate.
• and cream until blended.
• Add vanilla.
• Grease and flour loaf pan.
• Combine ingredients, pour 1/3 batter into pan.
• Sprinkle 1/2 filling over batter.
• Add another 1/3 batter and remaining filling.
• Cover with remaining batter.
• Marble with knife.
• Bake at 350F for 45-50 minute Dust with powdered sugar when cool.
• 12 servings.

VANILLA STREUSEL COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325. Butter a Bundt pan.
• In medium bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
• Combine butter and sugar in large mixing bowl and beat until fluffy.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each.
• Blend in sour cream and vanilla.
• Gradually add dry ingredients and beat well.
• In separate medium bowl, combine brown sugar, nuts and cinnamon.
• Turn 1/3 of cake batter into buttered pan. (Blob it in and spread around evenly with a spatula.).
• Sprinkle with 1/2 of the nut mixture.
• Repeat. (1/3 batter, remaining 1/2 nut mix.).
• Add remaining 1/3 batter to pan and smooth to cover.
• Mix 2 T. vanilla and 2 T. warm water in small bowl and spoon over top of batter.
• Bake 60 to 70 minutes.
• Cool completely before removing from pan.
• Texture will be moist.

FRENCH VANILLA CAKE WITH FRENCH VANILLA BUTTERCREAM FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 9-inch round cake pans and line the bottoms with parchment paper.
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg in a bowl until well combined.
• Cream together white sugar and butter in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add in egg yolks and beat until incorporated. Add in whole eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat mixture on medium-high speed until very fluffy, and mixture has lightened in color, 3 to 5 minutes more.
• Slice vanilla bean in half lengthwise. Use the back of a knife to scrape seeds out of both halves, and add seeds to the butter mixture. Set vanilla bean pod aside to use for the frosting. Mix vanilla bean seeds into the butter mixture on low speed until incorporated.
• Add vanilla and almond extracts to the batter and mix on low speed until incorporated. Pour in half of the dry ingredients and mix until combined. Add milk and sour cream and mix until combined. Pour in remaining dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Divide batter evenly between the cake pans and smooth into even layers.
• Place pans into the preheated oven and bake until centers of the cakes spring back lightly when touched, 30 to 35 minutes. Remove from oven and allow cakes to cool in pans for 15 minutes before running a knife carefully around the edges of the pans to loosen. Transfer cakes to a wire rack to cool completely.
• While cakes are in the oven, begin making the frosting. Add reserved vanilla bean pod to a small saucepan and pour in heavy cream. Place pan over low heat and cook until mixture is just warm, about 5 minutes. Remove pan from heat and allow mixture to sit at room temperature for about 30 minutes before placing into the refrigerator until chilled, about 30 minutes more.
• When heavy cream mixture is chilled, finish the frosting. Place 1 cup butter into a large bowl and beat on high speed until smooth and creamy, about 3 minutes. Mix in powdered sugar gradually, 1 cup at a time, mixing well after each addition.
• Remove vanilla bean pod from chilled heavy cream. Discard vanilla bean pod. Pour heavy cream into the butter-powdered sugar mixture. Add in vanilla extract and salt. Beat mixture on low speed until cream is incorporated, then turn mixer speed up to medium-high and continue to beat until frosting is light and fluffy, about 3 to 5 minutes more.
• Pipe a layer of frosting to the top of one of the cakes and set 2nd cake on top. Frost cake as desired with remaining frosting.

EASY OVERNIGHT FRENCH TOAST COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Combine softened butter, pecans, brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg for topping in a bowl. Put into a generously greased fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®).
• Mix milk, pecans, protein powder, eggs, melted butter, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a bowl until combined.
• Arrange bread slices standing up in the pan. Pour wet ingredients over top. Cover and refrigerate, 8 hours to overnight.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Remove coffee cake from the refrigerator and uncover.
• Bake coffee cake in the preheated oven for 1 hour. Remove from the oven and let cool for 10 minutes. Invert cake over a wire rack or serving platter and shake gently to release.