Author Notes
Just because it has "coffee" in the name doesn't change the fact that you're eating cake for breakfast...but I won't tell anyone if you don't. —Fresh Beats, Fresh Eats
Ingredients
- Cake
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1/4 cup
dark brown sugar (packed)
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1/4 cup
sugar
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1 teaspoon
baking soda
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1/2 teaspoon
baking powder
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2 cups
AP flour
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2 tablespoons
finely ground coffee grounds
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1 teaspoon
cinnamon
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5 tablespoons
unsalted butter (room temp)
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1 teaspoon
almond extract
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1/4 cup
Greek yogurt
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3/4 cup
whole milk
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1
egg (room temp)
- crumble & glaze
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1/4 cup
dark brown sugar (packed)
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1/2 cup
sugar
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3 tablespoons
AP flour
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1/2 teaspoon
cinnamon
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3 tablespoons
butter (room temp)
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2 tablespoons
fresh brewed coffee
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1 cup
powdered sugar
Directions
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First, preheat your oven to 375.
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Make the crumble by putting the butter, cinnamon, flour, and both sugars in a small bowl. Mix them together using either your hands or a pastry cutter until they form clumps; you don't wanna get this shit too fine, people. You want it to be crumbly.
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For the cake, you're gonna basically start the same way: throw the sugars, flour, baking soda/powder, coffee grounds, cinnamon, and butter in a stand mixer and mix them on low until they're combined.
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Whisk together the yogurt and milk in a small bowl and add those to the batter on low with the almond extract and egg. Make sure you do this JUST until it's combined; if you make it too smooth you won't get the crumbly goodness that coffee cake is all about.
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Butter up (or non-stick spray up, but that doesn't sound nearly as good) a 9x9 square baking pan and spread the batter in there.
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Pour the crumble on top of the batter, then stick the whole thing in the oven for about 30 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean.
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While that's going on, brew up some coffee for the glaze.
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Glaze is insultingly simple to make: just pour a couple tablespoons of the coffee into some powdered sugar and stir together with a fork. Too thin? More sugar. Too thick? More coffee. A chimp could do it, and hopefully you're not actually a chimp trying to read this and make coffee cake. You should be making banana bread, obviously.
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When the cake is done baking, let it rest for 5 minutes, then put it on a cooling rack till it gets down to room temperature.
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Pour the glaze on top in neat little ribbons, and you're all set.
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