New York Style Coffee Cake

April 21st, 2011 by amanda

I’ve been hearing rumors that Starbucks has done a complete overhaul of their pastries and that, my friends, makes me sad. I love cupcakes and cake pops (lies) as much as the next person, but who wants that with coffee? Hey Starbucks, quit trying to keep up with the trends and stick with things that go with coffee – like uhh, coffee cake.

Anyway.

This coffee cake is a lot like one of my favorite Starbucks pastries, the New York Style Coffee Cake. Except I think Starbucks calls (called?) it crumb cake. Or I called it crumb cake. Once of us definitely called it crumb cake.

The cake is so soft thanks to the yogurt in the recipe. And by the way, I used honey flavored Greek yogurt in this and it turned out fantastic. If you have some in your fridge, use it for this cake! The crumb topping is unbelievable. I could have eaten the entire recipe of crumb topping by itself. If you’re into nuts, I think you could get away with tossing some finely chopped walnuts or pecans into the topping too.

New York Style Coffee Cake

adapted from Baked Explorations

Ingredients

For the crumb topping:
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
½ cup granulated sugar
½ teaspoon salt
1½ tablespoons cinnamon
1 cup (2 sticks) melted butter
2½ cups all-purpose flour
For the cake:
2½ cups all-purpose flour
¾ teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
12 tablespoons (1½ sticks) butter
1½ cups granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1¼ cups plain (vanilla or honey flavor work too) Greek yogurt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

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