how do you keep a coffee cake moist

The VERY Best Coffee Cake Recipe ever is moist and buttery, with a cinnamon sugar layer in the middle topped with crumb topping and a sweet glaze icing. Perfect for breakfast or brunch with a hot cup of coffee!

Use buttermilk or sour cream: Buttermilk and sour cream are great ingredients for keeping coffee cake moist because they add acidity, which helps to tenderize the batter and prevent the cake from drying out.
how do you keep a coffee cake moist

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Why Isn’t There Coffee IN This Cake?

There are a few defining characteristics of a coffee cake. And nope there is no ACTUAL coffee in this recipe. This cake is meant to be enjoyed WITH coffee.

  • No Frosting – OR a light drizzle of an icing glaze. A lot of the time coffee cake is just dusted with powdered sugar, which you could absolutely do on this recipe!
  • Cinnamon. Coffee Cakes are generally spiced with cinnamon. I don’t make the rules.
  • Crumb Topping – This is not a must, but it’s very common. A lot of coffee cakes include nuts in the crumb topping as well, which you could do here if you like that! I’ll hit on that in a minute.
  • Vanilla Cake – It’s very typical for a coffee cake base to be a vanilla cake as opposed to chocolate.
  • A Single Layer Cake – Whether it be a 9×13, or a round cake, coffee cake is generally a single layer cake!

The BEST Coffee Cake Recipe

FAQ

Why is coffee cake so dry?

A dry cake is usually the result of one of the following pitfalls: using the wrong ingredients, making mistakes while measuring or mixing the batter, or baking the cake too long or at too high a temperature. Once you understand which common cake-baking blunders to avoid, you’ll know how to bake a moist cake every time.

How do you make dry coffee cake moist?

By easy, I mean easy: Poke your loaf cake or layer cake (with a skewer, cake tester, or toothpick), then use a pastry brush to coat it generously with simple syrup, which will soak into the crumb through the channels you just created. That’s it: You’ve successfully completed a “cake soak.”

How long can coffee cake sit out?

Melted butter is key for moist coffee cake, but this dessert tends to get drier over time. If you want to prevent coffee cake from getting stale for as long as possible, storing it in an airtight Tupperware is your best bet. That should keep the freshness and flavor for around two to three days at room temperature.

How to make a moist coffee cake?

Add a little bit more vegetable oil to get THE moistest coffee cake. This coffee cake is already moist (as the name suggests!), but if you want to really set it over the top you can add extra vegetable oil. This recipe calls for 2/3 cup of vegetable oil (or canola is fine), so you’ll bump that up to 3/4 cup to get a moister yield.

How to reduce my coffee consumption?

There are a few ways to do this. If the key is to reduce caffeine then you could switch to decaf coffee first. You could also reduce your coffee cup or mug size. Replacing coffee with another hot drink could also help. A lot of the time, coffee is consumed out of habit as part of a work environment. Switching this with variations of herbal teas can assist in reducing your coffee intake without interfering with your work routine.

What makes a good coffee cake?

The ultimate companion to a hot cup of joe, a good piece of coffee cake is rich and moist, with a sweet, crunchy streusel that runs through the middle of the cake and is also heaped on top (via King Arthur Flour ).

Why is a coffee cake so easy to make?

A soft, tender, easy-to-make coffee cake, heavy on the crumbs! Because the crumb part… is the best part. If you’re anything like me, you pick off the crumb topping from your coffee cake. Or you take the piece with the most crumb topping on it. If I could make a meal out of crumb topping… believe me, I would.

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