Almost every Sunday morning growing up, my father would make a huge apple coffee cake for us after church. We would hungrily watch him pour the batter into the pyrex baking dish, insert apple slices, and sprinkle with streusel topping.
Oh the magic of baking to young eyes! A half hour later the coffee cake would emerge from the oven, perfectly risen and crusted with brown sugar.
Several years ago I found a recipe for a similar coffee cake in the Boston Globe (can no longer find it), one that they had listed as an apple cake for the Jewish high holidays and posted it here.
However, the Globe recipe made a much thinner cake than the one I loved from my childhood, and several people over the years have had more success with this one by doubling the batter.
I agree, so I’ve adjusted the batter amounts. I’ve also reduced the sugar substantially from the original, and topped the cake with a streusel topping of brown sugar, flour, and butter.
Update: By the way, since several of you have asked, traditional “coffee cake” is the name that’s given to this type of cake, a simple one-layer cake often with a streusel topping, that one would eat with their morning coffee. There’s no coffee in it. Don’t ask me why, that’s just the way it is! Sort of like tea sandwiches that you would serve with afternoon tea, but you wouldn’t expect to find tea in the sandwich.
Apple Coffee Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups (280 g) all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup (50 g) of white granulated sugar plus 2 Tbsp sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 10 Tbsp unsalted butter (140 g), room temperature
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 cup (235 ml) whole milk
- 1 medium tart green apple, cored, peeled and sliced into 1/4-inch thick slices
- 4 Tbsp brown sugar
- 4 Tbsp flour
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 Tbsp butter, cut into small cubes
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