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October 2026 Recipe – Pumpkin Spice Coffee Cake…
Pumpkin season is here, and this Pumpkin Spice Coffee Cake is the perfect recipe to enjoy with your morning cup of coffee. The soft pumpkin cake covered with a sweet streusel topping comes together quickly and will fill your home with a scrumptious aroma while it bakes. This is a recipe you are going to want to add to your fall baking list. Enjoy!
Pumpkin Spice Coffee Cake
Prep Time: 20 Minutes
Bake Time: 28 Minutes
Makes: 8×8 inch Cake
Ingredients:
For streusel:
- 4 T butter, softened
- and cubed
- 3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1 T cinnamon
- 1/2 T vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup old fashioned oats
For cake:
- 6 T butter, melted
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 large egg, at room temperature
- 1/2 T vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup pumpkin puree
- 1¼ cups flour
- 1¼ tsp. baking powder
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/2 T pumpkin pie spice
Directions:
Step 1: Line an 8×8-inch baking pan with parchment paper and set aside. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Melt the 6 T of butter for the cake in a microwave-safe container and set aside to cool. Next, prepare the streusel in a medium-sized bowl by adding all of the ingredients and combining them with a pastry cutter or your hands until pea-sized clumps form. Set aside.
Step 2: For the cake, add the sugars, egg, vanilla, pumpkin and the cooled melted butter to a large bowl and beat with an electric hand mixer until fully combined.
Step 3: Mix together the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice in a small bowl. Once combined, add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients in the large bowl and slowly mix together until just combined. Be careful not to over-mix.
Step 4: Carefully add the cake batter to the lined baking pan and use a rubber spatula to spread it around evenly. Use your hands to squeeze the streusel to form clumps, then evenly sprinkle the pieces over the top of the batter.
Step 5: Bake for 28-30 minutes at 350 degrees on the middle oven rack. To make sure the cake is fully baked, insert a toothpick into the center, and if it comes out clean, it is done. Remove the coffee cake from the oven and place on a cooling rack to cool a bit before serving.
Step 6: Keep the Pumpkin Spice Coffee Cake tightly covered or in an airtight container at room temperature to keep fresh for several days. Enjoy!
