The BEST Coffee Cake | Our Family Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What makes coffee cake taste like coffee cake? ›

No, coffee cake does not taste like coffee. There is no coffee or caffeine in this cake despite its name. This streusel cake tastes like a lightly sweetened cake and oftentimes has spices like cinnamon and nutmeg.

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.

Aunt Jemima is no longer producing this product due to challenges competing with other products in local supermarkets which resulted in declining sales. Please don't deny our families and future generations the simple joy of this wonderful home baked coffee cake on a Sunday morning (or any morning!).

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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.

You can add either a teaspoon or more of instant coffee, depending on how strong you want the coffee flavor to be, or you can brew some very strong coffee and substitute it for some or all of the liquid the mix calls for.

No matter how you approach it, using coffee grounds in your baking will indeed work as a sufficient fill-in for instant espresso, and they will give your dessert the coffee-like flavor it deserves.

A dark roast or robust espresso will give rich, hearty treats plenty of depth, while a lighter, fruitier variety won't overpower a delicate dessert. Follow the recipe's instructions for coffee temperature, too.

Oh yes, you sure can. This recipe has a combination of butter and oil to give off that nice buttery taste while keeping it soft and moist at the same time. Cake using pure butter tends to be more dense and dry compared to adding oil into the batter.

Why is my coffee cake batter so thick? ›

It might be meant to be thick or you missed something or put too much of a dry ingredient in. You could just add a little water or milk to loosen it up. You could just bake it see what comes out. If it is very dense try soaking it with a bit of syrup.

Coffee cakes will keep at room temp for a day or so (why would it last that long?), and will have more flavor than ones from the fridge. Refridgeration increases the rate of starch retrogradation (staling) by up to 7 times. Rich breads (cakes) fare better than lean ones (French), but still, it's sub-optimal.

Quaker Oats, which has been owned by PepsiCo since 2001, announced its decision on Aunt Jemima days after a TikTok video describing the brand's history was shared widely on social media. In retiring the name and character, the company acknowledged that Aunt Jemima's origins were “based on a racial stereotype.”

Rice brand Uncle Ben's changing name and logo because of racist connotations. The Uncle Ben's rice brand is getting a new name: Ben's Original, because the previous name and logo has been criticized as a racial stereotype.

After examining hundreds of names, PepsiCo yesterday announced that it was rebranding Aunt Jemima as Pearl Milling Company—the name of the enterprise, founded in 1888, which originated the self-rising pancake mix that would later become known as Aunt Jemima.

Sometimes cake, sometimes bread, maybe with coffee but always sweet, the only real defining trait of a coffee cake is that it is meant to be served alongside a cup of coffee.

The British began referring to various baked goods served with popular hot beverages by the name 'tea cakes” and (coffee cakes) akin to the initial 'chocolate cake' which did not contain chocolate but was served alongside hot chocolate.

Add Instant Coffee to the Batter

We recommend dissolving 2-3 tablespoons of instant coffee in 1 tablespoon of hot water. Then add this mixture to the batter along with the other ingredients. This method will give the cake a stronger coffee flavor and a richer color.

Curiously, coffee cake contains zero coffee itself. I think (and I am totally speculating here) that it's meant to be served with coffee, sort of in the tradition of tea. My sleuthing on the internet points to origins in German yeasted cakes, but it's not entirely clear.