Coffee Cake

The formula

Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 78.

	this recipe	typical
fat	93%	63%
total sugar	192%	109%
brown sugar share of total sugar	35%	42%
egg	42%	30%
leavener	4%	2%
salt	2%	1%
liquid	80%	69%
flour strength	1.0	1.0

Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)

Ingredients

Weights computed by us.

150 g	3/4 cups caster sugar ((superfine sugar))
120 g	120g/ 1/2 cup unsalted butter (, softened (1 US stick))
100 g	2 large eggs (, at room temperature (Note 1))
9 g	2 tsp vanilla
14 g	1 tbsp oil ( - canola, vegetable or any other plain flavoured)
150 g	1 1/4 cups plain flour / all-purpose flour
10 g	2 1/2 tsp baking powder
3 g	1/2 tsp cooking salt / kosher salt
172 g	3/4 cup sour cream at room temperature (, mixed well before use - sub plain yogurt (Note 2))
160 g	3/4 cup (tightly packed) brown sugar
90 g	3/4 cup plain flour / all-purpose flour
8 g	1 tbsp cinnamon powder
2 g	1/4 tsp cooking salt / kosher salt
90 g	90g/ 6 tbsp unsalted butter (, softened)
150 g	3/4 cup icing sugar / powdered sugar (, sifted)
1 g	1/4 tsp vanilla extract
20 g	4 tsp milk (, preferably full fat but low / 0% fat ok)

Method: 11 steps, published by www.recipetineats.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.

“Yum so good! I made it with Woolies brand Gluten Free plain flour mix and it turned out well. The streusel middle layer did sink to the bottom though, so will take another reader's tip to put it in the freezer first. That ribbon came out almost dulce de leche ” — a cook, 5.0★

“Hi Nagi (& Jaffle) x This cake works as a gf cake! Just made it using Coles brand gf flour. I did make/use only half the crumble mixture as I was concerned that too much in the middle may be too heavy for gf flour based cake, but could’ve done the whole lo” — a cook, 5.0★