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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.
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Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Love this recipe!! Husband said it was “delectable & delicious…could eat it every day” haha:) can’t wait to bake it again xo
So good & easy! Turned out great!
I feel this would also be great with apple – if added cubed apple would I need to reduce the liquid/ cook longer..?
youmight need to cook a few mins longer. check from the center with a toothpick
Husband and I both loved the recipe!! I put half the dough in the pan and topped it with a few spoonfuls of the sugar topping then put the rest of the dough in and put the remaining sugar on it. Turned out great!! Thanks for the great recipes
The best! It actually looks like the picture and tastes even better! One question, for us folks with tender mouths, do you have any suggestions how I can make the crumb topping a little softer?
add more butter and use a mix of powdered sugar and cane sugar
Great!! Now if I can just keep myself from eating the whole cake LOL!
Hi Richa, I have not made this yet, but it looks amazing! Do you think it would bake well as a donut?
yes, check at 18 mins for regular donut pan
Hiya,
Just followed your recipe and the cake is great!
However, looking back I see that there is no coffee in the coffee cake?
A coffee cake might have coffee in it, but the name comes from the fact that it is served with coffee, not because it has coffee in it
Will it be OK if I add a tspn of coffee and cinnamon in Tha cake batter itself????
Yes you can add the cofeee to the batter
although the streusel will tend to fall out, so swirl it in the batter (poured into the donut pan) a bit and the batter will hold it
Everything about this was perfect. This was the first time I was able to execute a dessert perfectly. Thank you!
Very yummy! The cake itself was not sweet so it was just the perfect sweetness with the streusel on top. Thanks for the easy and delicious coffee cake!
This is a well written recipe. Thank you for the parchment suggestions and detailed instructions. My vegan friends loved this. I also appreciated that most of the ingredients were easy enough to get. Next time, I would try putting some walnuts in the streusel. I was also wondering if it’s been tried with more oil (1/3 cup?). It was very dry, and one friend put the vegan butter on top to moisten his piece.
great, yes a /3 cup will be fine.You can add more vegan buter to the streusel, bake a few mins less, and add an icing for moisture
This was really great! Well received by everyone in my family. I’m coming back to use that struesel recipe on an apple pie!
I made this recipe tonight and it is SO GOOD! And I am not a vegan! This cake does not disappoint! Everyone will love this cake
awesome! thanks!