Pumpkin Coffee Cake
Pumpkin coffee cake is delightfully tender, with delicious spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves, and topped with a buttery streusel topping.
Ingredients
Cake
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 large eggs
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- ¾ cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 cup pure pumpkin puree
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup whole milk
Streusel
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ cup salted butter cold
- 1 tablespoon milk or heavy cream
- Glaze
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1 to 2 tablespoons milk or cream
- ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Spray a 9x9-inch glass baking dish with non-stick cooking spray and set aside.
- In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, and baking powder.
- In a separate bowl, mix together the eggs, oil, brown sugar, pumpkin puree, vanilla extract, and milk.
- Fold the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir gently to combine.
- Spread the batter into the prepared baking dish.
- In another medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, brown sugar, and cinnamon.
- Cut the butter into small pieces and use a pastry blender or fork to mix the butter into the flour mixture, just until the butter is pea-sized.
- Stir in 1 tablespoon of milk or cream until the streusel clumps together just slightly. Sprinkle the streusel over the prepared cake batter.
- Bake the coffee cake for 40 to 45 minutes. The coffee cake is done when a toothpick inserted into the center comes out with just a few moist crumbs on it.
- Allow the coffee cake to cool before adding the glaze.
- Whisk together glaze ingredients in a small bowl. Adjust the amount of milk added to make a nice, thick glaze that can be drizzled. Drizzle over the pumpkin coffee cake.
- STEP THIRTEEN: Cut into pieces and serve.
Notes
Watch out when you are at the grocery store that you buy pure pumpkin puree and not canned pumpkin pie filling.
Do not over-mix the coffee cake batter at this stage.
Oven temperatures vary and may need to be recalibrated periodically to ensure they are accurate. Make sure to check your cake at the lower end of the recommended baking time.
If the streusel becomes too brown and your coffee cake needs longer to bake, cover the top with a sheet of aluminum foil.