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Drake's Coffee Cake

Drake's Coffee Cake is the best cinnamon coffee cake made with sweet cinnamon flavored streusel and pecans, the perfect cake with coffee.
Servings: 16
Calories: 404kcal

Ingredients

Streusel

Cake Release

  • 2-3 tablespoons unsalted butter softened

Cake

Instructions

  • Get out and measure your ingredients.
    All the ingredients needed to make drakes cofee cake.

Cinnamon Streusel TOPPING

  • In food processor add flour, granulated sugar, ¼ cup brown sugar and cinnamon.
    Ingredients for streusel being added to food processor.
  • Process until blended, about 20 seconds.
    ingredients blended together in food processor.
  • Transfer 1 ¼ cups of the flour mixture to a small bowl. Add remaining ¼ cup brown sugar, stir until incorporated and set aside to use for streusel FILLING.
  • Add butter and pecans to remaining flour mixture inside your food processor.
    Butter and pecans added to food processor to make streusel.
  • Pulse until nuts and butter resemble small pieces or gravel, about twelve pulses. Set aside to use as streusel TOPPING.
    Food processor showing nuts processed.

Coffee Cake

  • Adjust oven rack to lowest middle position and preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Grease 10 inch bundt pan with 2-3 tablespoons of the softened butter. Set aside.
    bundt pan greased with butter
  • In a large bowl add eggs, 1 cup sour cream, and vanilla.
    wet ingredients in a bowl
  • Whisk until blended.
    wet ingredients blended with a whisk
  • Using a handeld or stand mixer, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Mix on low speed until blended, about a minute.
    dry ingredients in stand mixer
  • Add butter and remaining ½ cup sour cream. Continue to mix on low speed.
    butter and cream added to dry ingredients.
  • Until mixture resembles gravel with some butter chunks remaining, maybe 2 minutes.
    blended until looks like small stones] or pebbles
  • Increase speed to medium, scrape dowl side of bowl with spatula. Blend until batter comes together, less than 15 seconds.
    dough coming together into one piece
  • Lower speed back down to low and slowly add egg mixture. Beat for 30 seconds and scrape down sides in between. I usually add egg mixture in 2 or 3 pours.
    eggs added so batter becoming smooth
  • Now, increase your speed to medium-high and beat until batter is airy and fluffy, another minute.
    batter beaten until light and fluffy
  • Grab your prepared pan and spread approximately 2 cups of your cake batter across the bottom with a rubber spatula, as smoothly as possible. Sprinkle with approximately ¾ cup of the cinnamon streusel filling (streusel with no butter or nuts).
    batter with streusel on top
  • Add another 2 cups of batter followed by your remaining ¾ cup streusel filling (streusel with no butter or nuts). Next, spread your remaining cake batter across the top of the cake. Again, as smoothly as possible.
    more batter on top of streusel in prepared pan
  • Finally, sprinkle top of your cake with all of the streusel topping (streusel with butter and nuts).
    streusel added to top of cake
  • Bake until an extra long toothpick or skewer inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, between 50 and 60 minutes.
    overhead shot of cake
  • Cool cake in pan on top of a wire rack 30 minutes.
  • Invert cake onto baking sheet so cake is streusel side down, remove bundt pan and place wire rack on top of cake. Flip cake back over so streusel side is back on top and remove baking sheet. I usually dump crumbs back on top of cake.
    finished cooled cake on platter for serving
  • Cool to room temperature, about 2 hours.
  • Slice.
    side shot of cake with slices missing on serving platter
  • Serve.
    a slice of cake on a white plate with a fork in it
  • Enjoy every bite!
    closeup of a slice of cake on a white plate with a fork lying down on the plate

Notes

Cake will last for 4 days in an airtight container at room temperature and freezes beautifully.
Check out our Espresso Granita With White Chocolate Cream if you love this delicious recipe. 

Nutrition

Calories: 404kcal | Carbohydrates: 53g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 20g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 7g | Trans Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 86mg | Sodium: 268mg | Potassium: 113mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 33g | Vitamin A: 515IU | Vitamin C: 0.3mg | Calcium: 100mg | Iron: 2mg