Carrot Cake Coffee Cake Recipe

This recipe is a fan favorite for spring and was originally published in 2021. It is also part of this year’s Spring Bucket List! Find out more about the bucket list here. comment icon 677 more comments I know it might be confusing – carrot cake, which is like vegetables meets cake, but also still cake, combined with coffee cake, which is also cake but the kind you can eat for breakfast and it will still be totally appropriate and, obviously, cakey? But no need to be confused. If you like a carrot cake that tastes just slightly cinnamony and teeters perfectly between springy and dense… And you like a coffee cake that is loaded with a mega amount of streusel topping… And you like cakes that look beautiful and taste even more beautiful with a proper shmear of honey butter… HELLO! Meet your one true match. This one is for you.

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Ingredients You’ll Need To Make This Spring Treat

This is different than a classic carrot cake recipe because of the incredible crumb topping that YOU NEED, but we have a pretty standard baking lineup ahead. For the cake:

carrots sugar butter eggs all-purpose flour baking soda cinnamon salt

For the streusel topping:

more butter (yum!!) flour brown sugar cinnamon salt

Let’s Make Carrot Cake Coffee Cake

Here’s how we make it (IT’S VERY EASY). And finally, THIS HAPPENS. The crumbly topping is just barely crunchy, and the honey butter shmear gets melty-ish because it’s all still a little warm. You have a coffee in your other hand, and it might just be an excellent little afternoon spring hygge moment for you. Carrot cake coffee cake! I’m telling ya.

More Springtime Treat Recipes

Healthy Carrot Muffins (a naturally sweetened, easy-to-make snack!) The Best Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting (this frosting is EVERYTHING!) Spring Lemon Blueberry Bread (lemon and blueberries: a perfect match!) Pistachio Loaf (spring baking essential! nutty, moist, dense, and so delicious) Lemon Poppyseed Zucchini Bread (an olive oil-based bread perfect for breakfast, snack, or dessert!)