Carrot Cake Coffee Cake
This carrot cake coffee cake is a sweetly spiced, extra moist carrot cake topped with a buttery cinnamon streusel. It's an easy carrot cake that can be whipped up in less than an hour!
Ingredients
Cake
- ½ cup (118.29 ml) neutral oil I used coconut oil
- 1½ cups (192 g) carrots (2 large carrots) grated or finely shredded
- ½ cup (100 g) granulated sugar
- ½ cup (110 g) brown sugar
- 2 large eggs room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ teaspoon (0.75 teaspoon) salt
- 1½ teaspoon (1 teaspoon) cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon (0.25 teaspoon) nutmeg
- pinch of cloves
- 1¾ cups (245 g) all-purpose flour
- ½ cup (120 g) buttermilk room temperature
Streusel
- ½ cup (62.5 g) flour
- ½ cup (110 g) brown sugar
- ¾ teaspoon (1 teaspoon) cinnamon
- ⅛ teaspoon (0.13 teaspoon) salt
- 3 tablespoons melted butter
Glaze
- ½ cup (60 g) powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon (0.5 teaspoon) vanilla
- ½-1 tablespoon (-0.5 tablespoon) milk
Instructions
To make the cake:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray the bottom of a 9 inch cake pan or spring form pan with cooking spray and line with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together carrots, oil, granulated sugar, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla and mix all together.
- Add dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Followed by buttermilk.
- Pour batter into prepared cake pan.
- Mix all the streusel toppings together in a small bowl until crumbly. Spread evenly over the cake batter.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool.
- Mix together the glaze until runny enough to drizzle. Drizzle over the top of the cooled cake. Cut and serve.
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Notes
You can also bake this as a loaf cake. Bake the cake for 45-55 minutes instead.
Cakes will have the best results if made with room temperature ingredients. I like to pull my eggs, buttermilk, and butter out of the fridge an hour or two before I start baking.
You can either grate fresh carrots by hand with a box grater or grate them with a food processor by using the shredding disk.
I know some people love nuts in their carrot cake. Feel free to add a cup of chopped nuts to the cake, or a handful to the streusel topping.
Nutrition
Calories: 403kcalCarbohydrates: 60gProtein: 5gFat: 16gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 4gMonounsaturated Fat: 8gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 48mgSodium: 459mgPotassium: 96mgFiber: 1gSugar: 38gVitamin A: 183IUVitamin C: 0.02mgCalcium: 96mgIron: 2mg
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