Grape Coffee Cake with Crumble Topping
Here's a tasty way to use up the grape harvest! Make a new back to school tradition with this delectable grape coffee cake with healthy, wholesome ingredients.
Ingredients
For Grape Coffee Cake
- 1/2 Cup Raw sugar, or any granulated sugar
- 1/2 Cup Butter
- 4 Cups Fresh ground flour, Einkorn is preferred
- 1 tsp Sea salt
- 1 tbsp. Baking powder
- 2 Eggs at room temperature
- 2 Cups Fresh whole milk
- 2-3 Cups Grapes - red, purple, or green
Topping
- 3/4 Cup Raw sugar
- 1 Cup Flour
- 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp Nutmeg
- Pinch Sea salt
- 1/2 Cup Butter, room temperature
Instructions
Mix the Coffee Cake
- Preheat oven to 375F/191C.
- Cream together the 1/2 cup butter and 1/2 cup sugar.
- In a separate bowl sift together the 4 cups of flour, 1 tsp. of salt, and 1 Tbsp. of baking powder.
- In another bowl slight beat the 2 eggs into the 2 cups of milk.
- Alternating the dry ingredients and the milk mixture, combine all ingredients with the creamed butter. Mix well after each addition.
- Gently fold in the grapes. *
- Generously butter a 9 x 13 glass baking pan. You may use a 10" round pan instead. Pour batter into pan.
Mix the Topping
- Mix all the dry ingredients, then cut in the butter with a pastry cutter or two knives.
- Sprinkle over the top of your coffee cake. This topping can be doubled.
- Optional: Pulse 2 additional cups of grapes in a blender until minced. Add 1/2 cup of flour and mix until incorporated. Spread this mixture on the top of the cake batter before applying the crumble topping. This creates a delicious, fruity layer that dresses up the coffee cake making it extra special as a dessert.
Bake the Coffee Cake
- Place into a hot oven and cook for about forty minutes.
- Cover with foil for the last 15-20 minutes to prevent scorching of the sugary topping if your oven runs hot.
- Let rest for five minutes. Serve hot with butter or send along cold in a school lunch as a treat.
Notes
*If your grapes are smaller, use three cups in the coffee cake batter. If your grapes are larger, use two cups. It's your coffee cake, though, you add as many grapes as you want!
Be sure to taste test the grapes before using them in this recipe. If they're particularly sweet, you can reduce the amount of sugar in the cake batter. If they need a little boost of sweetness, consider doubling or tripling the topping amount.
The added layer of minced grapes is totally optional but we love the extra gooey delicious grape layer right under the crumble topping.
When I'm making this for dessert, I reduce the baking powder to 1 tsp. to make the crumb more dense than poufy breakfast cake. With the leavening agent lessened, this cake resembles a grape torte. The picture at the top of this recipe is the breakfast version (round pan); the picture below this recipe is the torte version (round pan).
If that's too much information or too confusing for you, ignore it and enjoy your breakfast!
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