Finally, cut and serve! This coffee cake is delicious warm or cooled. Store any leftovers in an airtight container or cover the pan with plastic wrap. Adding sour cream is one of the best tips for making box cake better, and makes coffee cake so rich and moist.

Use half as much streusel and skip the topping. Instead, just sprinkle the streusel in the middle layer of the cake.Cut the butter into small cubes and add to flour mixture. Mix with a fork, a pastry cutter, or your hands until crumbly. Stir in the walnuts. Optional: sprinkle in a little vanilla extract.

I realized that I could do the same here at home by combining the cinnamon streusel from my scratch-made recipe with the moist cake mix Bundt recipe from my favorite lemon cake. This delicious treat was born! Why It’s Called “Coffee Cake” Make the filling. Put 2/3 cup of cake mix in a medium bowl and add melted butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, and pecans. Mix everything to combine.There’s several reasons I LOVE this cake mix coffee cake, but the simplicity and incredibly delicious flavor make it the perfect choice whenever you want to make an easy, crowd-pleasing cake. You can also swap my simple powdered sugar glaze with a caramel glaze, maple glaze, cream cheese glaze, or fruit flavored glaze.

If you don’t have a Bundt cake pan, you can prepare this cake in a tube pan. If your tube pan has a removable bottom and sides (so that you don’t invert the cake at the end), sprinkle the streusel topping in the middle of the batter and on top of the batter. Old-fashioned cinnamon coffee cake is a moist, dense cake with a rich, smooth, buttery inside, a cinnamon streusel filling, and a crisp, golden brown crust. It’s traditionally prepared in a Bundt pan or tube pan, but can also be baked in two loaf pans.She had so many wonderful little notes crammed in all the blank spaces in the book, and on the coffee cake she simply put “victoria sponge + coffee” so… I went with that. Sprinkle half of the streusel in the bottom of the Bundt pan (when flipped over at the end, this will be the top of your cake). Yes, nuts are a delicious addition and great way to add a crunch and texture to this cake. I recommend adding 1/4 cup of chopped walnuts or pecans to the streusel topping mixture. In a large bowl, whisk together all the dry and wet cake batter ingredients, except for the sour cream. Then, fold in the sour cream using a spatula or large spoon.