National Coffee Cake Day + Corner Bakery Copycat Recipe

Do you love coffee cake as much as we do? Then you are in luck because April 7 is National Coffee Cake Day! Not that coffee cake needs much of an excuse, but now you have one! Check out the recipe below and then sit down with a nice slice of coffee cake and a cup of hot coffee or tea.

Have you ever tried a coffee cake from the Corner Bakery Cafe? If not, then you need to put it on your Bakery Bucket List! Here is a copycat recipe we found for the coffee cake at Corner Bakery Café:

3 cups flour

2 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. baking soda

1/4 tsp. salt

1/2 cup butter, room temp, cut into pieces

1/2 cup vegetable shortening

1 1/2 cups sugar

5 eggs

1 1/2 tsp. almond extract

2 cups sour cream

Preheat oven to 350. Combine topping ingredients in a large bowl and combine with a wooden spoon. You want big chunks of this topping and filling. Next, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium size bowl, set aside. Grease 10 inch tube pan very well. In a large bowl cream butter, shortening, and sugar until very light. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Mix in almond extract. Add the dry cake ingredients alternately with the sour cream. The batter will be very thick. Spoon half of the cake batter into the prepared pan. Sprinkle half of the topping mixture over the batter, then the remaining cake batter, then remaining topping. Press the final topping layer into the cake layer very gently, just to make sure it “sticks”. Bake in the center of the oven for 1 hour and 15 minutes, but check at the 55 minute point. Test for doneness. Cool in pan about 5-10 minutes. Loosen sides of cake with knife and invert onto a wire rack to finish cooling. Enjoy!

If you don’t have time to bake up a cake, then be sure to check out CoffeeCakes.com! (They shipanywhere in the US and Canada.)