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Cream Cheese Coffee Cake

Cream Cheese Coffee Cake

Grandmother Inga's recipe for a moist coffee cake with a layer of cream cheese and a hint of almond. Sweet but not too sweet. Perfect with a morning cup of coffee.
Course Brunch, Dessert
Cuisine American
Prep Time 45 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Servings 20

Ingredients

Filling

  • 2 8 ounce packages cream cheese softened (light or regular)
  • ½ cup sugar
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 large egg

Cake

  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ cup 1 stick unsalted butter softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup sour cream light or regular

Streusel topping

  • ¼ cup sugar
  • ¼ cup flour
  • 3 Tablespoons butter chilled and cubed

Glaze

  • ¼ cup confectioners’ sugar
  • 1 ½ teaspoons milk
  • 2 - 3 drops drops almond flavor oil

Method

  1. Heat oven to 350°F. Grease & flour a 9 x 13 cake pan and set aside.

Filling

  1. In a medium bowl, mix together the cream cheese, sugar, egg and vanilla using a hand held mixer on medium-low speed until creamy.
  2. Set aside.

Cake

  1. In medium bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt until well combined. Set aside.
  2. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle, cream together the butter and sugar on medium-low speed.
  3. Add eggs one at a time.
  4. Add the vanilla extract.
  5. Slowly pour in the flour mixture alternating with the sour cream until it is all combined. Batter will be thick.
  6. Spread half of the batter into the prepared cake pan with a spatula.
  7. Spread the cream cheese filling evenly on top.
  8. Top with remaining cake batter and smooth with a spatula.
  9. Using a butter knife, gently swirl in the batter.

Streusel topping

  1. Add the sugar, flour and chilled butter in a small bowl.
  2. Stir using a fork or pastry blender until the mixture is crumbly.
  3. Sprinkle the streusel on top of cake batter.

Bake

  1. 40-45 minutes until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
  2. Cool on a wire rack.

Glaze

  1. In a small bowl, combine ingredients. Stir until smooth and creamy.
  2. Drizzle over cake.

Cooks Notes

There are four parts to making this coffee cake, I recommend making them in the order listed. I made and added the glaze after the cake was cool.