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Brown Sugar Coffee Cake

January 14, 2019 by Kim 2 Comments

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This Brown Sugar Coffee Cake makes your morning delicious and easy as it starts with a boxed cake mix! So simple to put together, whip this breakfast recipe up for your family or take it to a gathering.

Brown Sugar Coffee Cake recipe with frosting drizzle on a blue plate

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The kiddos sure love a coffee cake for breakfast. Well, the hubby and I might as well. ;-)

When the mornings can be lazy, this brown sugar coffee cake is a great addition to your breakfast menu. 

It starts with a boxed cake mix which is a great little trick I love to have up my sleeve. I make plenty of coffee cakes from scratch, that do not start with a cake mix like this blueberry coffee cake, or this apple coffee cake, but sometimes speed is imperative.

Sometimes, also, we just don’t want to put much work into it. (Can I get an AMEN??)

Brown Sugar Coffee Cake recipe on a white plate with a white frosting glaze

Making the brown sugar coffee cake

It really is quite easy to make this breakfast/brunch favorite. All you need are a few ingredients and it does help to have a Kitchen Aid mixer or a hand mixer. I use my Kitchen Aid often and I feel it is worth the investment.

Brown Sugar Coffee Cake recipe dough

Mix the cake mix, oil, eggs and sour cream with a mixer. Place the dough in a greased angel food cake pan. (Or also called a tube pan.)

Brown Sugar Coffee Cake Crumbles of brown sugar and cinnamon

In a small bowl, mix together the brown sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle on top of the dough in the pan.

Brown Sugar Coffee Cake dough in tube pan

Take a knife and swirl the batter in the pan. Just swirl it, nothing too crazy. You will still have plenty of topping on top of the coffee cake. By swirling it, you help some of that brown sugar deliciousness to get on the inside of the coffee cake.

Bake and you are done!

A few tips

Grease your pan well and when you take the brown sugar coffee cake out of the oven, use a knife to loosen the sides of the coffee cake. Don’t try to remove it from the pan yet. Let it sit on the counter for a few minutes. Few=10.

You don’t have to drizzle frosting on top, but really, for the integrity of the cake, drizzle it. ;-) The frosting is only a two ingredient recipe so it is easy to put together.

Besides, who doesn’t like frosting…

Brown Sugar Coffee Cake with frosting drizzle on a blue plate

Brown Sugar Coffee Cake

Brown Sugar Coffee Cake starts with a cake mix. Add brown sugar and cinnamon topping and you have a delicious and quick breakfast or brunch recipe. 
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Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Keyword: brown sugar, coffee cake
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Resting Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
Servings: 12 servings
Calories: 429kcal
Author: Kim Strawn

Ingredients

  • 1 box yellow cake mix
  • 3 eggs
  • 3/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 3/4 cup sour cream
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 3 Tablespoon almond milk or use regular milk

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350*
  • Mix cake mix, eggs, vegetable oil and sour cream in a large bowl with a mixer
  • Mix for 1 minute on low speed then 3 minutes on medium/high speed
  • Place in a greased tube pan and set aside
  • Mix together brown sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl and sprinkle on top of dough 
  • Take a knife and swirl through the dough
  • Place in preheated oven and bake for 30 minutes or until toothpick tests done
  • Set on counter to cool and loosen sides with a knife
  • After 10 minutes remove from pan 
  • After cooling completely, mix together frosting ingredients in small bowl and drizzling on top
    If you need to put the frosting on before it is cooled completely, you certainly can. It just might melt a little bit. Still tastes great. 

Nutrition

Calories: 429kcal | Carbohydrates: 64g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 13g | Cholesterol: 48mg | Sodium: 351mg | Potassium: 80mg | Sugar: 46g | Vitamin A: 150IU | Vitamin C: 0.2mg | Calcium: 137mg | Iron: 1.3mg

Brown Sugar Coffee Cake with white frosting glaze

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  1. Dennis Doyle

    October 5, 2019 at 3:39 pm

    A cup of brown sugar sure seems like a lot for this recipe. I made the coffee cake according to the directions, but the cake collapsed when cooling and there were pockets of brown sugar throughout the cake. The flavor was good, but very “sugary.” I would guess that1/4 cup of brown sugar would have made a big difference. Comments?

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    • Kim

      October 5, 2019 at 4:37 pm

      I love honest comments like this one because it helps me grow as a baker and blogger! I’m sorry the cake collapsed on you! Not sure what happened there. A few thoughts: Maybe the brown sugar was in “clumps” and not more broken up completely. Also, maybe the cake wasn’t cooked all the way through.
      Thank you for your comment!

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