Printable Recipe: Spring Strawberry Coffee Cake Recipe

Spring Strawberry Coffee Cake for Easter

This is one of my favorite sweet Easter brunch recipes! It's festive, it's fresh, and it uses one of the best ingredients of the season: strawberries! It's also moist, rich, and very special. Not to mention easy!

When mixing the cake batter, be sure not to over-mix. Like muffins, this Easter coffee cake recipe will get a bit rubbery if it's over-mixed.

Recipe serves 8, and can be used as a make ahead brunch recipe-- it gets even better as it sits.

Ingredients:
1 C. flour
1/2 C. granulated sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. ground cardamom
1 lg. egg
1/2 C. whole milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 tbsp. unsalted butter, melted
2 C. thick-sliced fresh strawberries

For the Crumble:
1/2 C. flour
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/2 C. brown sugar, packed
5 tbsp. cold butter, chopped
1/4 C. chopped pecans

Instructions: 1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Grease an 8" square baking dish. Set aside.

2. In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and cardamom.

3. In a separate bowl, beat the egg. Add the milk, vanilla, and melted butter. Beat until well combined.

4. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients, and stir with a wooden spoon until JUST combined. Pour batter into your prepared baking dish.

5. Layer strawberries over the top of your batter.

6. To make the crumble, combine the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, and sugar in a small mixing bowl. Cut the butter into the flour mixture with a pastry cutter or two forks until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in the pecans.

7. Sprinkle crumble topping over strawberries.

8. Bake about 40 minutes, or until the cake tests done with a toothpick. Don't worry if it looks a bit liquidy from the strawberries. It should set up after it's been out of the oven while.

9. Serve this Easter coffee cake recipe at room temperature.