I got this “crumb cake” coffee cake from Wegman’s one weekend, became completely obsessed with all things crumb cake all week long.
This Wegman’s cake had this crazy high crumb-to-cake ratio, like, it was mostly crumb than cake. Have you tried it? You really should.
While I liked that I wanted mine to be a bit more… balanced I guess. Still has a ton of crumb as you can see. I also gave it a quick and easy buttermilk touch. I cannot emphasize how buttery this thing is. ðŸ˜
I’m pretty sure this can be made vegan if you sub a vegan egg replacer. And it can be easily made gluten-free too, just use gf 1:1 flour.
I’m so excited for you to try this so let me know! It makes the best weekend treat/breakfast 🥳
Small-batch Coffee Cake
Equipment
- Hand/stand mixer
- 6-inch cake pan, or standard loaf pan
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup (nut) milk (160 g)
- 2 tsp vinegar or lemon juice
- 4 tbsp (plant) butter, room temp (56 g) dairy-free if desired
- 1/4 cup sugar (48 g) increase for really sweet cake
- 1 egg, room temp (sub egg replacer)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup flour (120 g) gf if desired
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
Crumb topping
- 1/4 cup flour (30 g) gf if desired
- 1/4 cup brown/coconut sugar (48 g) sub regular sugar
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 2 tbsp (plant) butter, melted (28 g) dairy-free if desired
- (optional) chopped pecans
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F and line your baking pan with parchment and spray with oil.
- Combine crumb topping ingredients, chill while making the cake batter.
- Add vinegar to milk, set aside as buttermilk substitute.
- In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Beat in egg and vanilla until combined.
- In a small bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt.
- Add the flour mixture and buttermilk alternatingly to the large bowl while stirring to combine.
- Pour 1/2 cake batter into your pan and sprinkle 1/2 the crumb topping. Repeat again. (I apparently did not layer like this in the pictures haha, but you should).
- Bake 40 minutes until the cake is fully baked.
- Cool, slice and enjoy!
Notes
- You can probably omit the buttermilk action in this recipe if you don’t have vinegar/lemon juice on hand and just use regular (nut) milk but I haven’t tried it.
Onna
Hi Elif, looks absolutely delicious, Am going to make this to bring camping for easter! What kind of icing did you use in the pictures?
L
Looks delicious and I’m going to try today. Do I just use 2/3 cup if I actually do have buttermilk?
Elif
YAY!!! yes, exactly. I should clarify that. Please lmk how it goes, I love this coffee cake so much! <3
Romina
Delish!!! Even without topping!
Very easy recipe to make. It’s a keeper 🙂
Elif
you didn’t add the crumb topping???! WHY *crying* that’s the best part! 🙂