Best Ever Coffee Cake

Looking for an easy breakfast cake? Try this Best Ever Coffee Cake. It's a yellow cake base with a cinnamon sugar nut streusel. Remember the buttery glaze for the top!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword breakfast cake, brunch, cinnamon, glaze, pecans

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 40

Total Time 1

Servings

Calories 403kcal

Ingredients

For the Streusel:

1 cup sugar
1 cup chopped pecans
1 ½ tablespoons cinnamon

For the Cake:

1 box yellow cake mix
3 ounce package instant vanilla pudding (dry mix)
4 large eggs
¾ cup oil
¾ cup water
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
⅛ teaspoon butter extract

For the Drizzle:

1 cup powdered sugar
3 tablespoons milk
⅛ teaspoon butter extract

Instructions

Make the streusel:

In a small bowl, mix together the sugar, pecans and cinnamon. Set aside.

Make the cake:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Whisk together the yellow cake mix and the pudding mix.
Add the eggs, oil, water and extracts.
Use a hand mixer to mix well, about 2 minutes.
Grease a 9x13 baking pan with cooking spray.
Sprinkle half of the streusel in the bottom of the prepared pan.
Pour the cake batter over the streusel.
Sprinkle the remaining streusel on top of the cake batter.
Bake for 40 minutes or until the center of the cake springs back when you touch it.

Make the drizzle:

In a small bowl, whisk together the powdered sugar, milk and extract.
Keep whisking until smooth.
Drizzle the glaze over the cooled cake.

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Notes

The calories shown are based on the cake being cut into 15 pieces, with 1 serving being 1 slice of cake. Since different brands of ingredients have different nutritional information, the calories shown are just an estimate. **We are not dietitians and recommend you seek a nutritionist for exact nutritional information.**

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