Prepare to fall in love with this Cinnamon Roll Cake! Light and fluffy, with just the right amount and cinnamon sugar throughout! Topped with a sweet icing, this is a great breakfast or sweet treat!
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Easy Cinnamon Roll Coffee Cake
A few years back, my mom had my daughter over for a sleepover! Since my daughter LOVES baking, they did just that! This cake is what they chose to whip up and am I glad they did!! Not only did I get a tasty recipe to share with you all out of it, but I was able to be the taste tester. A job I most definitely love doing!
The cake was light and fluffy, had a tasty cinnamon sugar layer swirled throughout, and was topped with the tastiest, sweet icing! It was a sweet treat I thoroughly enjoyed!
This cake would be great paired with a cup of coffee as a breakfast option, or perhaps with a glass of milk as a sweet treat! The best part, if you have leftovers, it freezes perfectly!
Next time you have guests over, whip this up and everyone will think you out did yourself!
Ingredients Needed for this Cinnamon Roll Coffee Cake:
Flour- all purpose
Salt
Sugar
Baking Powder
Milk
Eggs
Vanilla Extract
Butter- unsalted, softened
Brown Sugar
Cinnamon
Powdered Sugar
*Exact amounts are in recipe card below
How to prepare:
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Cinnamon Roll Coffee Cake
Equipment
Ingredients
- CAKE
- 3 cups flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- TOPPING
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoon flour
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- ICING
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 5 tablespoon milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Grease a 9 x 13 baking pan and preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix all cake ingredients together excluding the butter in a medium bowl.
- Slowly stir in the melted butter and pour into the prepared pan.
- For the topping, mix all ingredients together until well combined.
- Drop evenly over the batter and swirl with a knife.
- Place pan in oven and bake for 35-40 minutes.
- While cake is baking, combine the powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla in a small bowl.
- Once cake is done, remove from oven and drizzle icing evenly on top.
- Serve and enjoy!
Nutrition
KATHY DEAUX
Just made this coffee cake. Love the cinnamon taste but is EXTREMELY sweet. Can all the sugars in the recipe be lessened without changing the texture of the cake?
Kristin
Great question! To cut down on the sweetness, you can either omit or cut the icing on top in half OR cut the sugars down by 1/4 cup. Hope that helps!! Enjoy!
Christina
Is it okay to use self rising flour instead, and if so, is the baking powder still used? Just curious because I really want to make this. Sounds delicious and my kids will love it!
Kristin
Hmmm, you probably could, I haven’t personally experimented with that, but if using the self rising flour, you wouldn’t use the baking powder as it is already included in the flour!
Kristin
Hmmm, you probably could, I haven’t personally experimented with that, but if using the self rising flour, you wouldn’t use the baking powder as it is already included in the flour!
Trina
If you use self-rising flour, you omit the salt and baking powder. It already has these two ingredients in self-rising flour.
Kristin
Great tip! Thanks!!
Sherry Lockley
I’m baking it now. Isn’t near ready after the 30 minutes so I watched your video and read the recipe again. I melted the butter for the topping and think that is why it is so runny! Poured on instead of ‘dropping’. Will try again one day.
Thank you for sharing your recipe.
Kristin
Oh such a bummer to hear! I hate when little mishaps like that happen! How did it end up turning out? Definitely give it a go again soon as I think you’ll love it!
mona
sounds easy to make and will taste good
Kristin
Hope you enjoy!
Nix
It is swimming in butter after baking. But it was delicious.
Kristin
Glad it was still delicious! Let it sit a bit and the butter will absorb in! Check out my video tutorial in the recipe for full walk through of the recipe!
indyhunter
I just baked this cake and it’s delicious… however I had to bake it for 50 minutes so that all that butter would get absorbed.
Is there a mistake on baking time on posted recipe?
Kristin
Hmmmm, I have made this a few times now and it bakes in about 30 minutes, however, my mom’s oven bakes it in about 40. I will change the time to give it a more accurate window! Glad you enjoyed it!!
Heather
Not sure what is happening but both times I made this the center was very undercooked? Let cook a little longer than what it calls for and now the edges are crispy? Please help!
Kristin
Oh no!! Are you using fresh baking powder? Sometimes when mine gets older, my cakes don’t rise/bake as much
Janice
Great recipe my whole family enjoyed it. Everyone had seconds. Easy to prepare will definitely make again.
Kristin
Yea!! So glad you all enjoyed it!! Thanks for letting us know, 🙂
Michele Tiffen
Thanks ladies, i love trying these recipes out but can’t always get the ingredients , i live in Northern Ireland so i have to use guess work with some of the recipes . But I’m having fun doing this. God bless
Kristin
So glad you enjoy our recipes! We love hearing that!!! How fun living in Northern Ireland, that is one place I have always wanted to visit!! 🙂 Take care!!
Patti
Amazing! I have made this 3 times now and it’s gone in minutes. Thanks so much for sharing!
Kristin
Yea!!! So glad you love it!!! It sure is a favorite in my house too, 🙂
vonda anderson
Loved the cake it was so good.
Kristin
So glad you enjoyed it!!! 🙂
Anonymous
Is it all purpose or self rising flour?
Kristin and Adriana
All purpose 🙂
Mother of One
My daughter and I made this cake last night for our family’s dinner and it was DELICIOUS. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe.
Kristin and Adriana
Yea!! So glad you enjoyed it!!! 🙂