Raspberry Cinnamon Swirl Coffee Cake

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Here’s a wonderful, lush cinnamon-swirl coffee cake bursting with fresh, juicy raspberries and drizzled with a delicious cream glaze.  This Raspberry Cinnamon Swirl Coffee Cake is perfect for weekends, especially when you have fresh raspberries on hand!  

This easy raspberry coffee cake recipe is the perfect mix of sweet and tart!   Perfect for Mother’s Day too!

Which brings me here!  I saw these fabulous, ruby red raspberries at the market, and I COULD NOT resist them!

So, from there, I had to make this Raspberry Cinnamon Swirl Coffee Cake!  And this decadent coffee cake is a one heck of a doozy!  So why not put them in a wonderful, delicious moist buttermilk coffee cake surrounded with mouth-watering swirls of cinnamon sugar, I ask myself?

It wasn’t hard to convince myself.  *Shocker!* 🙂

Raspberries always remind me of love and Valentine’s Day and When Raspberries are in Season!

This cake is so elegant and bursting with love! The texture is amazing with cinnamon and raspberries flavors exploding all over the place.  And that vanilla glaze on top of the coffee cake just makes it even more amazing!  Bring on the coffee! 

This raspberry cinnamon swirl coffee cake is a must-try for those occasions when you need a delicious and attractive dessert. This coffee cake is full of flavor, but it doesn’t take a lot of time to make. With a few ingredients and a few steps, you too can create a tasty and beautiful coffee cake.

Using simple ingredients, basic baking skills, and a few tips and tricks, you’ll be amazed at how easy it is to make this indulgent treat for breakfast, brunch, or dessert.  Get out the mixing bowl already!

Raspberry Cinnamon Swirl Coffee Cake Ingredients You Need

Raspberry Cinnamon Swirl Coffee Cake

• all purpose flour or gluten free flour
• granulated sugar 
• baking powder
• salt
• buttermilk or milk – see how to make buttermilk in substitutions
• vanilla extract
• egg
• canola oil
• cinnamon powder
• raspberries, fresh or frozen
• walnuts or pecans optional

Glaze

• powdered sugar
• milk

How to Make Raspberry Cinnamon Swirl Coffee Cake 

1. Preheat oven to 350 °F (180 °C). Grease an 8 or 9 inch round spring-form pan or baking pan.

Raspberry Cinnamon Swirl Coffee Cake

1. Combine the flour, 1 cup sugar, baking powder, salt, buttermilk, beaten egg, vanilla and oil and stir just until moistened.
2. In a small bowl, combine cinnamon and remaining sugar.
3. Pour half of the batter into pan and sprinkle with with ½ the raspberries, ½ the nuts and 1 cup of the cinnamon-sugar.
4. Spread with remaining batter and sprinkle with remaining raspberries, nuts and cinnamon-sugar.
5. Using a knife, cut through the batter to swirl a few times.
6. Bake for 60-75 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
7. Allow to cool for 10 minutes in the pan before removing to wire rack. Cool completely.

Glaze

1. Combine and whisk powdered sugar and enough milk to reach desired consistency and drizzle over cooled coffee cake.  Store leftovers in an airtight container.

Substitutions

• If you don’t have raspberries, it’s ok to use blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, peaches or something similar! 
• In that case, you don’t have to add any fruit, but you could substitute chocolate chips, pecans or walnuts in place or even add them in as an addition. Either way, YUM! 
• Don’t have buttermilk?  Make it simply by pouring 1 cup of whole or 2% milk into a liquid measuring cup. For vegan buttermilk, you can use a vegan milk of your choice with perfect results. For every 1 cup of milk, stir in 1 tablespoon lemon juice or vinegar. Let the mixture stand for 10 minutes, then mix it up and use. You can scale the recipe up or down depending on how much you need.

If you’re looking to impress with a show-stopping dessert, you won’t want to miss this recipe!  The family will absolutely love this easy raspberry coffee cake recipe!  You may get lots of extra hugs and kisses too!  More love!  Here’s the recipe!  Happy Baking!

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Lush Raspberry Cinnamon Swirl Coffee Cake

Kim Lange

Here's a wonderful, lush cinnamon-swirled coffee cake bursting with fresh, juicy raspberries and drenched with a cream glaze. Delicious served warm from the microwave or straight from the fridge.

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Prep Time 25 minutes mins

Cook Time 1 hour hr

Course Breakfast

Servings 8 Servings

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Ingredients

 

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Raspberry Cinnamon Swirl Coffee Cake

• 2 cups all purpose flour or gluten free flour
• 1 ½ cups granulated sugar divide into 1 cup and a 1/2 cup
• 1 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 ¼ cup buttermilk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla Extract
• 1 egg beaten
• ¼ cup canola oil
• 1 Tablespoon cinnamon powder
• 1 ½ cup raspberries
• ½ cup walnuts or pecans optional

Glaze

• ¼ cup powdered sugar
• 2 teaspoons milk

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Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 350 °F (180 °C). Grease an 8 or 9 inch round spring-form pan or baking pan.

Raspberry Cinnamon Swirl Coffee Cake

• Combine the flour, 1 cup sugar, baking powder, salt, buttermilk, beaten egg, vanilla and oil and stir just until moistened.
• In a small bowl, combine cinnamon and remaining sugar.
• Pour half of the batter into pan and sprinkle with with 1/2 the raspberries, 1/2 the nuts and 1 cup of the cinnamon-sugar.
• Spread with remaining batter and sprinkle with remaining raspberries, nuts and cinnamon-sugar.
• Using a knife, cut through the batter to swirl a few times.
• Bake for 60-75 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
• Allow to cool for 10 minutes in the pan before removing to wire rack. Cool completely.

Glaze

• Combine and whisk powdered sugar and enough milk to reach desired consistency and drizzle over cooled coffee cake.
• Store in an airtight container.

Notes

• Don't have buttermilk?  Make it simply by pouring 1 cup of whole or 2% milk into a liquid measuring cup. For vegan buttermilk, you can use a vegan milk of your choice with perfect results. For every 1 cup of milk, stir in 1 tablespoon lemon juice or vinegar. Let the mixture stand for 10 minutes, then mix it up and use. You can scale the recipe up or down depending on how much you need.

Keyword breakfast, cake, cinnamon, coffee cake, raspberry

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