Cinnamon-Crisp Coffee Cake - our 2023 Recipe of the Year!

Summary by Krater

Kye from King Arthur Baking Company demonstrates how to bake a cinnamon-crisp coffee cake featuring a cinnamon-cocoa filling and a buttery crumb topping.

From the video

Answers: How do you make a cinnamon-crisp coffee cake?

• cinnamon-crisp coffee cake
• coffee cake recipe
• baking crumb topping
• reverse creaming method
• cinnamon cocoa filling

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup granulated sugar
• 2 teaspoons Vietnamese cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons cocoa
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• null granulated sugar
• null confectioner's sugar
• 2 teaspoons Vietnamese cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 85 g unsalted butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs
• null buttermilk
• null powdered sugar
• 2 to 3 teaspoons water

What it concludes

• Using a square pan lined with parchment paper makes getting the coffee cake out of the pan easy without losing any of the top.
• Using two kinds of sugar in the crumb topping—granulated sugar and confectioner's sugar—helps create an ever so slightly crunchy texture as they bake.
• The reverse creaming method, or paste method, coats the flour in fat and prevents gluten from forming, creating a super tender and moist cake.
• Adding a glaze that is similar in consistency to molasses or honey helps hold the crumbs on and gives the coffee cake an extra visual element.
• Letting the coffee cake cool in the pan for about 20 minutes allows the cake's structure to set so it is not too fragile when moving it out of the pan.