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Vegan Coffee Cake

Carine By Carine Claudepierre
Published on 01/07/2023 - Last updated on 11/11/2023

4.98 from 38 votes
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This Vegan Coffee Cake is a moist, buttery vanilla cake filled with sweet cinnamon sugar and topped with a crunchy walnut cinnamon streusel.

It’s the perfect vegan breakfast recipe on the weekend, much faster to bake than vegan cinnamon rolls, but as delicious as my vegan crepes, perfect to bring all the family around the table.

Two slices of Vegan Coffee Cake stacked on a black plate next to cinnamon sticks and a golden spoon.
Table of contents
  1. Vegan Coffee Cake Ingredients
  2. How to Make Vegan Coffee Cake
  3. How to Assemble a Cinnamon Coffee Cake
  4. Baking And Decorating The Cake
  5. Flavor Variations
  6. Frequently Asked Questions
  7. More Vegan Cake Recipes
  8. Vegan Coffee Cake

If you love my vegan apple cake for breakfast, you’ll love this vegan coffee cake. A coffee cake doesn’t contain coffee. Its name only refers to the fact that this cake marries perfectly with coffee.

So you can safely serve a coffee cake for a kid’s breakfast! It’s very simple to make a coffee cake and a great way to meal prep days of breakfast or feed a crowd in the morning during the holiday season.

Vegan Coffee Cake Ingredients

All you need to make the vegan coffee cake batter are:

  • Soy Milk or any non-dairy milk you love, like almond milk, oat milk, or coconut milk.
  • Apple Cider Vinegar or lemon juice. It is used to curdle the milk.
  • All-Purpose Flour, or gluten-free all-purpose flour, might also work, but I haven’t tried it yet.
  • Baking Powder to raise the cake.
  • Baking Soda for fluffy cake crumb.
  • Salt to enhance the flavors.
  • Sugar – white sugar or caster sugar is the best sweetener for coffee cake batter.
  • Unsalted Vegan Butter, light olive oil, or avocado oil.
  • Vegan Yogurt or Unsweetened Applesauce
  • Vanilla Extract for flavor

How to Make Vegan Coffee Cake

First, preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Line a 9-inch x 13-inch cake pan with parchment paper and lightly oil the paper with cooking oil spray.

Step-by-step instructions to Making Vegan Coffee Cake Batter
  1. First, prepare the vegan buttermilk. In a small jug, stir soy milk and apple cider vinegar. Set aside for 10 minutes until it curdles.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and sugar. Stir to combine evenly and make a well in the center of the flour.
  3. Pour the buttermilk into the well along with the remaining wet ingredients: melted vegan butter, vanilla extract, and unsweetened apple sauce or vegan yogurt.
  4. Stir to combine and form a smooth, lump-free cake batter.

How to Assemble a Cinnamon Coffee Cake

How to make Assemble a Vegan Coffee Cake
  1. Split the batter in half, which makes about 2½ cups, and place the batter into the prepared baking pan.
  2. Simply stir cinnamon and coconut sugar in a small bowl. Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar all over the first layer of the cake.
  3. Spread the remaining cake batter all over the cinnamon sugar. This is a tricky part. Don’t add all the batter in one spot, but rather add dollops of batter all over the pan. Then use a fork to gently spread the top cake layer over the cinnamon sugar layer. A fork can help you spread the batter without interfering too much with the cinnamon sugar. Spread evenly until no more cinnamon sugar can be seen.
  4. In another bowl, add all the toppings ingredients: flour, cinnamon, melted butter, and vanilla extract. Stir to combine and form a sticky paste that you can easily rub and crumble into pieces on top of the cake. Sprinkle the cinnamon crumble all over the cake.

Baking And Decorating The Cake

Bake the vegan coffee cake in the center rack of the oven at 350°F (180°C) for 40 to 50 minutes or until a toothpick or skewer inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.

Cool first in the pan for 20 to 25  minutes. Then, use the overhanging parchment paper to pull the cake out of the pan.

Let the cake cool completely on a wire rack before serving, cutting, or glazing.

Glazing Coffee Cake

The glazing is totally optional, but like any cake, adding a little sweet drizzle on top makes it even more delicious. Simply make a batch of my vegan royal icing, and drizzle on top of the cooled coffee cake.

This Vegan Coffee Cake is a moist, buttery vanilla cake filled with a sweet cinnamon sugar and topped with a crunchy walnuts cinnamon streusel. It’s the perfect week-end breakfast cake to bring all the family around the table.

Flavor Variations

There are many ways to make coffee cake, and you can play with flavors by swapping some of the ingredients in this recipe.

  • Chocolate Coffee Cake – Add 1/3 cup of dark chocolate chips to the cinnamon layer and the same in the streusel.
  • Coffee Flavors – Add 1 teaspoon of instant coffee in the streusel and cinnamon layer.
  • Pumpkin Coffee Cake – Swap the cinnamon for pumpkin pie spices and replace the apple sauce with pumpkin puree.
  • Walnut Coffee Cake – Finely chop 1/2 cup of walnuts or pecan and sprinkle over the top layer, along with the crumble topping.

Frequently Asked Questions

Find below my answers to your most frequent questions about this vegan cake recipe.

Does Coffee Cake Contain Coffee?

No, a coffee cake is a breakfast vanilla cake with a cinnamon filling and topping but no coffee or espresso at all.It gets its name because it’s the perfect treat next to a cup of coffee.

Can I Make This Into Muffins?

You can make coffee cake muffins, but this batter serves about 24 muffins.
It means that you need two muffin pans and bake them on two different racks, center and below, for about 30 to 40 minutes, switching the pan halfway.

More Vegan Cake Recipes

If you like this vegan coffee cake, you’ll love these other vegan cake recipes.

  • Eggless Cake
  • Vanilla Crazy Cake
  • Almond Flour Cake Recipe Without Eggs
  • Vegan Pineapple Upside Down Cake
  • Vegan Birthday Cake
  • Vegan Carrot Cake
  • Crazy Chocolate Cake

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This Vegan Coffee Cake is a moist, buttery vanilla cake filled with a sweet cinnamon sugar and topped with a crunchy walnuts cinnamon streusel. It’s the perfect week-end breakfast cake to bring all the family around the table.

Vegan Coffee Cake

This Vegan Coffee Cake recipe is the most delicious tea cake ever. Two buttery vanilla cake layers filled with cinnamon sugar and topped with a crispy cinnamon crumble.
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Prep Time: 30 minutes mins
Cook Time: 40 minutes mins
Total Time: 1 hour hr 10 minutes mins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 24 slice
Calories: 222.3 kcal
Author: Carine Claudepierre
4.98 from 38 votes

Ingredients

US Customary – Metric

Cake Batter

  • 2 cups Soy Milk
  • 3 teaspoons Apple Cider Vinegar
  • 3 cups All-Purpose Flour
  • 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
  • ½ teaspoon Baking Soda
  • ½ teaspoon Salt
  • 1 ½ cup Sugar
  • ½ cup Vegan Butter (Unsalted) - melted
  • 3 tablespoons Plant-based Yogurt - or unsweetened applesauce
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

Cinnamon Crumble

  • ⅔ cup Coconut Sugar
  • ¾ cup All-Purpose Flour
  • 1 tablespoon Cinnamon
  • 6 tablespoons Vegan Butter - softened, not melted
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

Cinnamon Sugar Layer

  • ¾ cup Coconut Sugar
  • 1 tablespoon Cinnamon

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Line a 9-inch x 13-inch baking pan with parchment paper, making sure you keep overhanging parts of parchment paper on the sides to help unmold the cake. Slightly oil paper with oil spray. Set aside.

Cinnamon Sugar

  • In a small bowl, stir coconut sugar and cinnamon. Set aside for later.

Coffee Cake Batter

  • In a medium bowl, whisk milk and apple cider vinegar. Set aside for 10 minutes until it curdles.
  • In a large bowl, add all-purpose flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Whisk to combine evenly. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients.
  • Pour the milk mixture into the well along with plant-based yogurt (or unsweetened applesauce), vanilla extract, and melted vegan butter.
  • Use a silicone spatula or wooden spoon to stir the ingredients together and form a consistent, smooth cake batter.
  • Pour half of the batter into the prepared pan, then evenly sprinkle the batch of cinnamon sugar all over it.
  • Pour the remaining half batter on top – watch my pictures above for visual help.

Crumble Topping

  • In a small bowl, add melted vegan butter, coconut sugar, cinnamon, flour, and vanilla extract.
  • Stir the ingredients together until they form a paste that you can crumble into pieces with your fingers.
  • Use your finger to crumble the mixture all over the cake.
  • Bake in the center rack of the oven for 35-40 minutes or until golden brown on top and a pick inserted in the center of the vegan coffee cake comes out clean.
  • Cool down for 5 minutes in the pan, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely at room temperature.

Notes

How to store vegan coffee cake?

This vegan coffee cake can be stored at room temperature for 2 to 3 days or up to 5 days in the fridge in a sealed cake box.
I recommend storing the cake whole and slicing it as you go to keep the crumb fluffy and buttery.

Allergy Swaps

  • Gluten-Free – Feel free to replace the flour with an all-purpose gluten-free flour blend. Make sure your baking powder is gluten-free as well.
  • Nut-Free – Skip the walnuts in the topping or replace them with sunflower seeds. Use nut-free, dairy-free milk like soy milk suggested.
  • Sugar-Free – Natural sugar-free granulated sweeteners like brown or white erythritol also work.
  • Soy-Free – Use almond milk, oat milk, or coconut milk.
  • Vegan Butter Swap – Olive oil or avocado oil works well in the batter. For the streusel, melted coconut oil would work, but the texture won’t be as crispy as with vegan butter.

Equipment

9x13 Baking Pan
9-inch x 13-inch Baking Pan
Measuring Cups
Measuring Cups and Spoons
Parchment Paper
Parchment Paper
Mixing Bowls
Mixing Bowl
Cooling Rack
Cooling Rack
Whisk
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Nutrition

Serving: 1slice | Calories: 222.3kcal | Carbohydrates: 37g | Protein: 2.8g | Fat: 7.4g | Saturated Fat: 4.4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1.8g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 18mg | Sodium: 189.6mg | Potassium: 58.6mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 19.4g | Vitamin A: 287.4IU | Vitamin B12: 0.2µg | Vitamin C: 1.5mg | Vitamin D: 0.2µg | Calcium: 62mg | Iron: 1.1mg | Magnesium: 5.3mg | Phosphorus: 33.2mg | Zinc: 0.2mg
Carine Claudepierre & Damien Maurer

About The Author

Carine
Hi, I'm Carine, the food blogger, author, recipe developer, photographer, and published author of a cookbook and founder of The Conscious Plant Kitchen with my husband Damien. Learn more about us.

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This Vegan Coffee Cake is a moist, buttery vanilla cake filled with a sweet cinnamon sugar and topped with a crunchy walnuts cinnamon streusel. It’s the perfect week-end breakfast cake to bring all the family around the table.
This Vegan Coffee Cake is a moist, buttery vanilla cake filled with a sweet cinnamon sugar and topped with a crunchy walnuts cinnamon streusel. It’s the perfect week-end breakfast cake to bring all the family around the table.