Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake

This cinnamon streusel coffee cake is the perfect sweet breakfast recipe! Serve a crowd or meal prep it for easy breakfasts throughout the week with a cup of coffee. Enjoy!

Easy Coffee Cake Recipe

Breakfast is served! And it’s this perfectly sweet cinnamon streusel coffee cake. Pair it with a cup of coffee, and you’ve got yourself the perfect way to start your day.

Streusel Topping

• Rolled oats
• All-purpose flour
• Light brown sugar
• Cold unsalted butter
• Ground cinnamon
• Vanilla extract

Coffee cake

• Dry ingredients: you’ll need all-purpose flour, baking powder, salt and ground cinnamon.
• Wet ingredients: light brown sugar, vanilla extract, unsalted butter, avocado oil, almond milk and eggs.

How to Make Coffee Cake

Add the rolled oats, flour, brown sugar, butter, cinnamon, and vanilla extract to a mixing bowl. Cut the ingredients together until a crumble forms. Yum!

Add the flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon into a bowl and toss.

In a separate bowl, cream together the brown sugar, vanilla extract, and butter until light and fluffy with an electric mixer. Then drizzle with avocado oil and mix.

Next, add the eggs and mix to combine followed by 1 cup of milk to the batter.

If the consistency is thick and creamy your batter is ready. If your batter is too thick like cookie dough, add 1 tablespoon of milk at a time until it reaches a thinner consistency.

Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix to combine. Remove one cup of the batter and transfer it to a bowl. Add 2 teaspoons of cinnamon to the 1 cup of batter and stir to combine. The batter with cinnamon should be a darker cinnamon color. 

Pour half of the remaining non-cinnamon batter into the bottom of the cake pan and use a spatula to spread the batter out evenly.

Pour the cinnamon batter into the cake pan and spread that layer evenly. Finish the cake with the rest of the non-cinnamon batter and smooth out the top layer. 

Add the streusel topping to the top of the cake and gently press the streusel into the cake with your hands.

Bake the cake for 30 minutes at 350ºF, cover with a tin foil tent, and bake for another 30 minutes.

Remove the cake from the oven if the middle of the cake is mostly baked.

Let the cake cool for 15 minutes before serving.

Avocado oil –> Applesauce

Almond milk –> Any milk

Rolled oats –> Quick cooking oats

Tips and Tricks

• Try not to let the batter sit for too long after mixing the wet ingredients and the dry ingredients together. The baking powder is activated once it gets wet and letting it rest for too long may cause a stodgy cake!
• When you are laying the different batters in step #7, wetting the spatula may help the batter spread a bit easier. 

Store your coffee cake in an airtight container (or in the pan it baked in covered in plastic wrap) in the fridge for up to 3 days.