When it comes to coffee cake, lots of people think it's all about the streusel. While streusel is great, there's more than topping to a great coffee cake!
The cake should be moist, buttery, and so velvety it almonst melts in your mouth.
The streusel has to be rich.
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One you mix up your cinnamon ribbon, you'll remove some and then add butter and flour to the rest. Brown sugar keeps it soft, and it has a little espresso powder in it for depth.
Next up: batter. Cake flour & butter for tenderness, sour cream for moistness, eggs for richness, and a mixing method guaranteed to yield a tender cake. Click below for more about that method.
Either way, tall or short, you will still have layers of moist, tender vanilla cake accented by deep cinnamon goodness in the middle and crumbly cinnamon crumbs on top.