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Easy Vegan Coffee Cake Recipe. Simple soft Vanilla Cake topped with a delicious Streusel. Classic Cinnamon Streusel Coffee cake. Vegan soyfree nutfree Recipe. Glutenfree option. Jump to Recipe
You all have been making that Chocolate chip cake everyday! In many formats, with many additions (coconut, berries, vegan marshmallows!). The batter from the cake is very versatile. Make it slightly thicker for loafs, thinner for cake pan cake, add fruits and nuts for muffins!
I use almost the same batter today for this Super Easy Coffee Cake. The smooth batter comes together quickly. It is topped with a simple cinnamon streusel that bakes up beautifully. Use other spices in the streusel for variation. Add nuts or fresh or dried fruit to the batter and streusel.
This Coffee Cake is just the right decadent, and just enough sweet to stand as a bakery version without going overly sweet. It is amazing as is. Add a simple icing for events and such. Lets make this Easy, Delicious, Versatile Cake.
More Cakes and Bakes from the blog
- Cinnamon Swirl Cake
- Eggnog Pound Cake
- 1 Bowl Banana Apple Bread.
- Peanut Butter Chocolate Marble Cake
- Lemon blueberry pound cake
Gluten-free
- GF Cashew Butter Chocolate Marble Cake.
- Gluten-free Cinnamon Roll Bread yeast-free.
- GF Carrot Banana Bread – Also grain-free.
- Sweet Potato Crumb Cake. GF
This Cake is Everyone Approved! We’ve served it to a mixed crowd and everyone has asked for the recipe. If you make, do let me know how it worked out in the comments or tag me on Instagram.
NOTE: Coffee Cake is a term for regular cake with a streusel, other toppings that is served in a coffee shop or served with coffee. It does not usually contain coffee itself. A cake which contains coffee is also called coffee cake, but here this is a streusel cake to be served with coffee or tea. 🙂
The cake can be made without oil and without gluten. See notes for options.
Vegan Coffee Cake Recipe Cinnamon Streusel Cake
Ingredients
Wet:
- 1 cup non dairy milk, such as almond or soy
- 1 tbsp applesauce or non dairy yogurt or more non dairy milk, (applesauce or yogurt work best)
- 1 tsp vinegar
- 1/3 cup sugar, 1 tbsp more for sweeter
- 1/4 cup neutral oil, , or use 3 tbsp applesauce to make oil-free
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- a few drops of almond extract, (optional but wonderful)
Dry:
- 1.5 to 1.75 cups of flour, (I use 1 1/4 cup unbleached all purpose and 1/2 cup wheat flour, or all unbleached all purpose), see GF option in notes
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
Streusel:
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1/3 to 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tbsp vegan butter, or use oil
- 1.5 to 2 tbsp oil, , refined coconut or other neutral like safflower
Instructions
- Line a pan with parchment with parchment hanging on the edges. Preheat the oven to 350 deg F (176 C). In a bowl, mix in the wet ingredients until the sugar is fully combined.
- In another bowl, whisk 1 1/2 cup flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. (Add spices of choice if you like. Add berries, or pineapple, or candied ginger if you like. Add 2 tbsp almond flour to the dry for additional texture (optional)).
- Fold into the wet until just about combined. Add more flour if needed 1 tbsp at a time to make just slightly thick batter. Pour into a parchment lined pan.
- In a bowl, add the dry streusel ingredient and mix well. Add the vegan butter and oil and mix it in with your fingers until well distributed and crumbly. Spread over the cake batter.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 35 to 45 mins (depends on the pan, cake height etc). Cool for 10 mins, then remove from pan. Cool completely before slicing. Store on the counter for upto 2 days, refrigerated for upto 7 days, freeze (slices) for upto a month
- To make cupcakes/muffins: Bake for 22 to 24 mins for regular size muffins.
Video
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Hi Richi,
Just found your website and you-tube channel!
I just made this using the apple sauce instead of oil, so delicious, perfectly fluffy!
Am anxious now to try your Indian dishes and naan bread.
Thanks!
awesome!
Can this be made in a loaf pan? If so, would there be any changes to cook time?
yes it might need 10-15 mins longer to bake.Also make a thicker batter with a few more tbsp of flour
Thank you so much.
Hi Richa – your recipes are gorgeous and work without fail… which is why I’m wondering why my cake tasted salty. I am pretty sure I followed the recipe exactly. Maybe the topping should have had 1/4 tsp instead of 1/2 tsp? Did anyone else comment on the saltiness? I might be mistaken and added to much, forgetting I’d already incorporated the salt. And no, I didn’t use self-rising flour. Not sure what happened.
hmm, the vanilla cake is the similar batter as many of other loafs and cakes, so that should not taste salty.
The topping might feel salty depending on the salt content of the butter and slight error in measurement of salt or the type of salt(some brand/type salts do taste saltier). So yuo can reduce the salt in the topping to a 1/4 tsp.
Make another cake, just the bottom with lesser salt and serve the saltier cake and that cake together (like a sandwich maybe) and add some extra sugar icing to balance it out.
Thank you for your reply! I suspect I added about 1/2 tsp of baking soda rather than 1/4 as written. I was cavalier this morning about my measurements, using only a teaspoon measuring spoon and eyeballing it. I’m pretty sure I’ve made your vanilla cake recipe before and again, your recipes always come out perfectly. Thank you again! –Morgan
This looks amazing! I’m curious what you used to make the drizzle on top? I just put mine into the oven ~ smells delish already!
just sugar and non dairy milk. 1/4 cup powdered sugar + a tsp or so milk
Hi richa, the cake looks delicious. However, I am curious why there is no coffee in the cake? Where does the coffee flavor come from?
Coffee Cake is a term for regular cake with a streusel, other toppings that is served in a coffee shop or served with coffee. It does not usually contain coffee itself. A cake which contains coffee is also called coffee cake, but here this is a streusel cake to be served with coffee or tea. 🙂
What flours can be used to substitute for almond flour? I am gluten free and allergic to nuts.
it might work with oat flour
How many cupcakes will this recipes make?
11 to 12
I wonder how this would taste if I added tart apples to it? We have so many apples in our tree right now and want to use as many as I can while they are still here. It looks delicious!
should work just fine. I have a spiced apple cake on the blog. toss chopped apples (chopped small) in a tbsp of maple syrup then into intothe batter. see this for reference https://fettabbau-trim.today/2013/04/spiced-apple-cake-vegan-recipe.html%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
What type of vinegar do you use in this ?
any will work, apple cider, white or rice
Someone on Facebook was just talking about how coffee cake can complement certain flavors in coffee to make both the coffee and the coffee cake taste better. I couldn’t get coffee cake out of my mind after that, and then I find your post. Lol. Looks like I will be making this for the weekend breakfast.
This is absolutely PERFECT. Coffee cake is to die for–just in general–but I absolutely love how crispy the streusel looks while the cake inside is just so fluffy and moist-looking. I definitely have to try the oil free version too, as well as the gluten free version! Thank you for providing alternatives!
Thanks Cassie