Apple Coffee Cake
This Apple Coffee Cake recipe is full of cinnamon apple flavor and big enough to feed a crowd. No cake mix here. This one starts from scratch!
Ingredients
Filling:
- 1 (20 ounce) can apple pie filling
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
Brown Sugar Mixture:
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted, don't add this until the end
Cake:
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 ½ cup milk
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 3 eggs
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
Glaze:
- 1 ½ cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
- 1/4 cup hot water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a 9×13 pan well.
- In a small bowl combine the apple pie filling and cinnamon; set aside.
- In another small bowl combine the brown sugar and nuts. Don’t add the butter yet; set aside.
- In large bowl combine flour, sugar, milk, ½ cup butter, eggs, baking powder and salt. Mix on low until barely combined and then on medium for 2 minutes.
- Pour ½ of the batter into prepared pan. Spoon ½ of the pie filling evenly over batter. Spread ½ of the brown sugar mixture evenly over pie filling.
- Pour remaining batter to pan and spoon remaining pie filling over top.
- Now mix the 3 Tablespoons of melted Butter with the remaining brown sugar mixture. Sprinkle evenly over top of cake.
- Bake 45-50 minutes until tester comes out clean. Let cake cool for 20 minutes before adding the glaze below.
- For the Glaze: Combine the powdered sugar, butter, and vanilla. Gradually add the hot water until the mixture is smooth and desired consistency is reached. Add more if needed. Drizzle over cake.