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Apple Coffee Cake Recipe

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Apple Coffee Cake

Almost every Sunday morning growing up, my father would make a huge apple coffee cake for us after church. Recently I pulled this recipe from the Boston Globe; they had it listed as an apple cake for the Jewish high holidays. It tastes almost exactly like the breakfast cake I had growing up, although we topped ours with brown sugar and butter, not white sugar with cinnamon. For a scratch cake, it is very easy to make. Although the recipe says to use an electric mixer, if your butter is truly at room temp, you can do this easily by hand.

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Apple Coffee Cake Recipe

Ingredients

1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
5 1/2 Tbsp unsalted butter, room temperature
1 egg, beaten
1/2 cup whole milk
1 medium Cortland or other baking apple, peeled and sliced

Method

1 Set the oven to 375°F. Grease a 9-inch square baking dish with or pie pan a 4-cup capacity.

2 Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt.

3 In a bowl, combine 1/3 a cup of the sugar with the cinnamon, set aside.

4 In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter with the remaining 1/3 cup sugar. Beat in the egg until blended. Add the flour mixture in three additions, alternating with the milk, beating until just combined.

5 Spread half the batter in the baking dish. Lay the apple slices on the batter so they just cover the batter (you may have to overlap some slices). Sprinkle the apples with half of the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Spread the rest of the batter over the apples. Sprinkle the remaining cinnamon-sugar on top.

6 Bake the cake for 25 minutes or until it is golden brown and apples start to bubble at the edges.

Serves 6.

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Posted by Elise on Oct 7, 2005 and indexed Apple, Apple Cake, Cake, Coffee Cake

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So where is the COFFEE in the Apple Coffee Cake recipe?

Posted by: Spoon Full on October 6, 2005 11:52 AM

Hi Spoon - there is not necessarily coffee in coffee cake. Coffee cake is a type of cake that you would typically eat while drinking coffee in the morning, a breakfast cake.

Posted by: elise [TypeKey Profile Page] on October 6, 2005 12:36 PM

Elise - This looks delicious! I have been looking for a good, traditional kind of cake that could be served in the morning. I'll try it this afternoon. Thanks so much! Elise

Posted by: Audree on October 6, 2005 6:48 PM

This is a beautiful New Year's cake, thank you.

What did you think of the recipes and commentary by Nigella in this past week's NY Times food section?

Posted by: shuna fish lydon on October 6, 2005 9:35 PM

Hi Audree - ooo, I hope you like it!

Hi Shuna - dang! I was in the Boston area last week and didn't see the Wednesday NYTimes. We get it here, but it gets recycled pretty quickly. I'll have to see if I can look it up online.

Update Ah, you meant this week's! I got it online. Man oh man does that jumbleberry grunt look good, a great summer recipe. Also the Pear and Ginger muffins. Love what she writes about baking - it just isn't that hard if you follow the measurements properly, at least for simple cakes and muffins. Yummmmm.

Posted by: elise [TypeKey Profile Page] on October 6, 2005 9:39 PM

Really good fall morning cake! The kids love it! Really simple to prepare.

Posted by: Linn on October 9, 2005 12:14 PM

I made this last night. It was good for dessert and for breakfast today. Very simple since I only had to peel and slice 1 apple and I always have those ingredients on hand. I feel like there should have been more batter though. Next time I make the recipe I will make more batter. I also used brown sugar on top instead of white like suggested.

Posted by: Chrissy on October 12, 2005 7:48 AM

I made this cake this evening, and it was delicious and very easy to make.

I think there was too much sugar on top, though. Next time, I'll cut the sugar in half.

Thanks for a great website! This is my new favorite website to get recipes.

Posted by: Stephanie on October 17, 2005 10:54 PM

Baked the cake this morning. Delicious! But you definitely need to double the batter. Also, I baked it in a square 8x8 pan which was perfect. I also diced the apple which makes it easier to cut and to eat.

Posted by: Anonymous on November 12, 2005 10:27 AM

This is tasty but too sweet for breakfast. Its more of a dessert. And I didn't even use all of the sugar topping. I'd like to try this again with less sugar, a bit more cinnamon, and perhap half the topping mixture put in the middle with the apples.

Posted by: Anonymous on April 5, 2006 3:09 PM

Made this recipe this morning and am waiting for it to cool. I can tell it's going to be delicious, though a bit thin. I used a 9x9 silicone pan and it provided so much surface area that it was a thin layer of batter, indeed. Next time I'll make it in a smaller dish or I'll increase the batter. But it's still gonna be tasty!

Posted by: Jessica on May 21, 2006 9:36 AM

I've made this a couple of times now, and it always gets rave reviews from friends, family, and co-workers. I use a lot less sugar than in the recipe, and it turns out great! Thanks!

Posted by: Mindy on September 21, 2006 7:56 AM

Hi Elise, thanks for this recipe. I made it last evening. My husband loves it. It was so easy and tasted great. Though I used much less sugar than required. About 1/3 Cup for batter and 1/3 Cup for sprinkling. This is a keeper..thanks again. : )

Note from Elise: I agree with you Joanne, and I've reduced the sugar needed in the recipe to 1/3 and 1/3.

Posted by: Joanne on October 11, 2006 6:56 PM

Great recipe.........made it twice and got rave reviews. I'm about to make it again, but make a bit more batter and use vegan ingredients so that my daughter can eat it too. Thanks!

Posted by: Sue on November 5, 2006 7:06 AM

I made this cake tonight, my little girl loves to help me bake. We had lot's of fun, and it was very easy to make. It tasted DELICIOUS!!!:)

Posted by: Lupe from Texas on February 10, 2007 10:12 PM

Hi Elise!

I made this for my family to enjoy at a birthday party, and it was wonderful! I also made an experimental one using halved maraschino cherries mixed with the batter, which went over well (though I prefer the apples, personally!) thank you for the great recipe!

Posted by: Anonymous on February 19, 2007 7:07 PM

I've been haunting this website for the past few months and I have to say that when I finally tried this recipe out it came out as an incredibly moist yet fluffy cake with an excellent layer of dense fruit that had my friends asking for more. Thank you so much!

Posted by: Bee on March 11, 2007 11:00 PM

I just made this and my mom and boyfriend both raved about it. We almost ate the entire thing before it even cooled down. Thanks for a wonderful recipe! I already have orders to make more tomorrow.

Posted by: Sarah on September 14, 2007 9:43 PM

Apple Coffee cake was quick, tasty and a delight to serve. I baked in an old tin pie plate,used brown sugar and walnuts, and mixed with apples before adding apples to bottom layer and flattened the apples into the bottom layer with a fork, poured top layer over and added topping with brown sugar, walnuts and cinammon and stirred this in slightly. Also used three Spy apples. I will make this again and again. I sent some to an elderly friend and he asked for more.It was a pleasure to enjoy more of the fruit and less of the cake ingredients. Bakes like a pie. I served with frozen vanilla yogurt.

Posted by: Libby on October 31, 2007 5:28 AM

This cake was great! I made it for my husband, but poor thing did not even get a chance to taste it! I ate it all... It was sooooooooo good. Next time I`ll definitely double the batter and reduce the sugar. Thank you for this great recipe!

Posted by: Agota on November 6, 2007 3:40 PM

Do you think that this recipe could use a banana instead of an apple? I was just thinking to change the taste around a bit. Because my family rather into bananas than apples, and the mix is so easy to make.
Has anyone tried it with bananas before?

I haven't tried it with bananas, but it's a great idea. ~Elise

Posted by: Natascha on April 17, 2008 1:03 PM

So I tried the cake with bananas and oh my gosh it was awesome! I recomend it!! just instead of 1 apple use 1 large sized banana and layer them just like you would the apples. it is really good!

:)

Posted by: Natascha on April 17, 2008 2:44 PM

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