Apple Butter Coffee Cake
This cozy, spiced up Apple Butter Coffee Cake has all the feel goods for fall baking! Our coffee cake is layered with autumn-inspired spices, apples and of course--apple butter with a delicious brown sugar cinnamon crumble on top with drizzles of delicious vanilla glaze!
Servings: 12 Servings
Calories:
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground cloves
Wet Ingredients
- ¾ cup sugar
- ½ cup unsalted butter at room temperature
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup Apple Butter
- ½ cup Greek yogurt
- 1 apple cored and chopped
Crumb Topping
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 1 Tablespoon ground cinnamon
- ½ cup flour
- ¼ cup butter ½ stick, softened at room temperature
- ½ cup walnuts or pecans optional
Vanilla Glaze
- 1 cup confectioners sugar
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream or milk of choice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- A couple pinches of salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
How to Make the Crumb Topping
- Use a fork to mix the brown sugar, cinnamon, flour, and softened butter in a small bowl until you have a coarse, lumpy mixture. Set aside in the fridge while you make the batter.
Make the Apple Butter Coffee Cake
- Set the oven to 350F and spray an 8x8 or 9x9 pan lightly with cooking spray and/or line with parchment paper for easy removal.
- Whisk together the dry ingredients and set aside.
- Cream the butter and the sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time. Stir in the apple butter.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients alternately with the yogurt, beginning and ending with the dry. Mix just until combined, don't over beat.
- Spread the batter in the prepared pan and Top with cake with the crumb topping.
- Bake for about 40-55 minutes, depending on size of pan, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out without wet batter clinging to it.
- Place cake on a rack while you make the glaze.
How to Make the Vanilla Glaze
- Whisk together the powdered sugar, cream/milk, vanilla, cinnamon and salt until combined. Add a little more cream for creamier, thinner glaze and a little more powdered sugar for thicker glaze until you get the texture you are looking for.
- Using a spatula or spoon, drizzle the coffee cake. Serve warm.
Notes
- Make this cake sugar-free if you wish to cut back on sugar. Use Lakanto sugar (get 15% off using my 'thebakingchocolatess15' code) to make it sugar-free and make sure you use a sugar-free apple butter
to also cut back on sugar.