Moist and tender coffee cake with the scrumptious flavor of apple and a streusel topping. You’ll love starting your morning with a cup of coffee and a piece of this cake.
In the past when I made this recipe, I used to use apple slices.
Since then I changed that to diced apples. It is easier to serve the cake and easier to eat it.
The cake is topped with the diced apples and a delicious, brown sugar and pecan streusel.
To Make this Recipe You will Need:
- all-purpose flour
- baking powder
- salt
- unsalted butter
- granulated sugar
- vanilla extract
- egg whites
- milk
- Granny Smith apple
- brown sugar
- cinnamon
- pecans
- mixing bowls
- 9×13 inch baking pan
- whisk
Watch me make this recipe in the video below:
To begin, preheat your oven to 350°(F).
Grease a 9×13 inch cake pan. Set it aside.
In a bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt.
Place room temperature, unsalted butter in a mixing bowl, along with granulated sugar and vanilla extract. Beat those together until smooth.
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Mix in half of your flour mixture, then milk, and then the rest of the flour mixture. Combining each addition completely before the next. Set it aside.
In a bowl, beat the egg whites until they are stiff.
Carefully fold these into the thick batter, until just combined.
Spread the batter into the cake pan.
Peel and dice an apple and arrange it over the top of the cake batter.
For the Topping
In a bowl, stir together flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, and chopped pecans. Add in butter. Mix until this is completely combined and crumbly. I find that this mixes best with a whisk or a fork.
Sprinkle the mixture all over the top of the apples.
Bake this cake for about 40 – 50 minutes until the cake is firm in the middle, or tests done when stuck with a toothpick.
Allow it to cool slightly on a rack and then enjoy.
The cake can be served warm or room temperature.
Enjoy!
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Scrumptious Apple Coffee Cake
Ingredients
For the cake:
- 3 c all-purpose flour
- 3 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¾ c butter, unsalted, room temperature
- 1 ⅔ c sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 egg whites
- 1 ¼ c milk
- 1 Granny Smith apple
For the topping:
- ¾ c butter, unsalted, room temperature
- 1 ½ c brown sugar
- ¾ c all-purpose flour
- 2 ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 c chopped pecans
Instructions
- To begin, preheat your oven to 350°(F).
- Grease a 9×13 inch cake pan. Set it aside.
- In a bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Put the first stick and a half of butter in a mixing bowl, along with sugar and vanilla. Beat those together until smooth.
- Mix in half of your flour mixture, then your milk, and then the rest of the flour mixture. Combining each addition completely before the next. Set it aside.
- In a bowl, beat the egg whites until they are stiff.
- Carefully fold these into the thick batter, until just combined.
- Spread the batter into the cake pan.
- Core and slice up the apple. I leave the skin on, but that is up to you.
- Arrange the slices over the top of the cake batter.
- In another bowl, stir together the 3/4 cup of flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, and the chopped pecans. Add in the remaining butter. Mix until this is completely combined and crumbly. I find that this mixes best with a whisk or a fork.
- Sprinkle the mixture all over the top of the apples. Bake this cake for about 40 – 50 minutes until the cake is firm in the middle, or tests done when stuck with a toothpick.
- Allow it to cool slightly and then enjoy.
- The cake can be served warm or room temperature.
- Enjoy!
Nutrition
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This recipe was originally written in 2012, updated in 2023.
I made this cake this morning. Super simple instructions. Being disabled I can no longer make complicated recipes. This is delicious! I can’t keep my hands out of this cake. Every time I walk by the cake I have to force myself to not cut a small piece. This recipe is a keeper!
Thank you Sandy! I am so glad you like it :D
This looks really yummy. I love coffee cake and adding apples gives it a little kick.
This apple cake looks great and it is perfect for the fall months. I would love having this for tea time during the colder months
I love coffee cake because it’s so easy to make. And this variation sounds so yummy!
You know this is gonna be a good cake when you see all the butter. Yum!
This looks absolutely fabulous! Aesome photos too! ;-)
What a delicious recipe and such a great idea to have a slice for breakfast. I love how you’ve added a pecan topping to your apples, yum!
oh wow! Look at this fluffy moist cake !!! Reminds me of my childhood favorite called “pouding chomeur” made with maple syrup though.. I love this!
Dang! Even though I’m diabetic I want to make this! It would perfect with my morning coffee.
I never thought of having cake for breakfast, which I think it’s the most awesome idea I’ve heard all day! I usually buy a lot of apples thinking I’m going to make them into smoothies, but sometimes they go to waste, not anymore!
Thanks for sharing all these wonderful apple desserts, now I know I cannot have too many apples.
its just AMAZING !!!! i can have this anytime of the day. a must try cake and love the way apples are arranged. I swear, my family is gonna love this.
I would love to start my morning with a cup of coffee and a large piece of this cake!
I love making coffee cakes. They are no fuss, rustic, delicious desserts. Apples season is just getting started here…so I have lots of great apples to choose from to make this great sounding cake.
Anything with apple in it is awesome, but combining this with coffee cake – a match made in heaven!
Would love to make this without butter for sure.
Goes without saying that the coffee cake is wonderful, but i love the quality of the photographs, well done.
That looks so delicious, and your photos are making my mouth water!
OMG, this apple coffee cake is amazing!!!! And wow, you homeschool? I am so in awe of you!!! that's awesome! :)
Thank you! Yes, we are almost half way through our 11th year of homeschooling. I can't believe in a few short months I will have two graduates!!
This is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing!
The pictures are amazing. Makes me really hungry!
Your Apple coffee cake is scrumptious!
I like the egg white idea! Lovely cake
This coffee cake looks AMAZING! I so wish I could have a slice right now.
I haven't had coffee cake in so long…yours looks like a wonderful slice of heaven! Drooling just thinking about it…
I love this cake. Your photos are gorgeous!
Thank you!
That´s a very deserving title. It looks incredibly scrumptious! I´m pinning this one right now
I love the addition of apple – truly "scrumptious"!
That looks so good, I am drooling!! Have to try that recipe!!
Wonderful cake!
I know lots of folks who would love a slice of that coffee cake for breakfast! I'd have to settle for a bite or two.
This coffee cake is amazing!
Smells amazing while it is baking!
Oh yes! The house smells amazing!
Looks so good, Constance! I love a good coffee style cake!
I will take some of this with my coffee, please! I really need to start eating breakfast before going around to all the blogs :)
I'm sipping coffee right now and wishing I had a big slice of this cake. I'm am saving this recipe because it looks so good I just have to make it some time.
It looks incredible!!!