The Perfect Stormy Cake We love this coffee cake from Kim Kushner’s book The New Kosher. Her Perfect Stormy Cake is indeed a perfect storm of flavors and textures: nuts, brown sugar, cinnamon, cocoa and chocolate chips with a moist batter made with sour cream or yogurt. It comes together quickly and our testers raved. […]
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Blackberry Coffee Cake
Blackberry Coffee Cake The inclusion of sour cream is a tried and true approach with coffee cake batters to make them rich and moist. Here in this Blackberry Coffee Cake, our good friend Rick Rogers adds freshly grated orange rind and blackberries to a classic coffee cake batter. Crowned with a brown sugar pecan […]

Apricot Almond Tea Ring
A Classic Yeast Based Coffee Cake If I see almond paste included in a recipe I simply have to try it. It’s a funny thing too, because as a child anything that resembled marzipan was just plain weird to me. Now I cannot get enough of the fragrant almond flavor and the moist texture it […]

Figgy Cardamom Bread
A Classic Yeast-Risen Coffee Cake Figs are underrated. Fresh or dried they bring a chewy, richness to baked goods and desserts. This yeast-based bread from Kim Laidlaw’s Home Baked Comfort uses dried figs. And while it seems contradictory, you want to buy moist and plump dried figs. They should yield easily with a nice cushiony […]

Pumpkin Spice Latte Bundt Cake
An Easy Pumpkin Spice Coffee Cake to Serve a Crowd This Pumpkin Spice Latte Bundt Cake is easy to make – just whisk together dry and wet mixtures – and features the flavors of Starbuck’s Pumpkin Spice Latte beverage. Why not eat your favorite fall drink? The glaze is made with coffee to further accentuate […]

Apple-Studded Brown-Butter Streusel Coffee Cake
Perfect Fall Apple Streusel Coffee Cake We love the simplicity of coffee cakes and the combo of a tender cake and sugary, crunchy streusel never ceases to entice. Amy Traverso’s Apple-Studded Brown-Butter Streusel Coffee Cake has the addition of tender-sweet apples both in and on top of the cake. Note the use of unpeeled apples, […]