Cinnamon Pear Coffee Cake Recipe (2024)

FAQs

How do you increase the flavor of coffee in a cake? ›

Its rich, bittersweet flavour adds depth to cakes, cheesecakes, pies, cookies, muffins, loaves, and soufflés.

If your cake is hard, the problem probably lies in the beating. The butter must be beaten well in the early stages to give the mixture enough air for a light and fluffy texture. To achieve this the butter must be lukewarm and therefore not too hard.

Coffee cake and regular cake are made with the same ingredients like flour, sugar, eggs, and butter and a leavening agent like baking powder. The difference is that instead of frosting on top, coffee cakes have crumble or streusel. Just like a cake, it can also have glaze or icing.

Coffee + Coconut

If you like your coffee milky, why not add a dribble of coconut milk or creamed coconut. Stir it in or blend it in for a smooth, creamy finish. The coconut seems to enhance and almost intensify the coffee flavours instead of masking any of them.

Use a little more coffee.

By adding a small amount more coffee than usual, you produce a more concentrated flavor. However, adding coffee will actually make your coffee taste slightly more acidic as well, because there's less water to go around for each coffee ground, which means less extraction takes place.

You can use freshly brewed coffee to get that lovely taste in a cake - but did you know that by using actual grounds packs more of a punch and gives you that delightful taste of coffee? We recommend a Turkish grind for baking - this is a wonderfully fine grind and won't leave gritty pieces in your cake.

Melted butter is key for moist coffee cake, but this dessert tends to get drier over time. If you want to prevent coffee cake from getting stale for as long as possible, storing it in an airtight Tupperware is your best bet.

If you have too much flour in a recipe and not enough fat, like butter or oil, your cake is going to be dry and hard. For best results, I would encourage you to use a scale when baking, but if you don't have a scale, then just make sure you're using measuring cups correctly.

Our Favorite Fudge Birthday Cake gets its fork-friendly texture from oil and a bit of Instant ClearJel (a food starch that hangs on to the liquid in the batter to ensure moist texture). Our Classic Birthday Cake recipe calls for both butter and oil for great taste and tender texture.

What makes a cake moist and fluffy? ›

It wasn't until 1763 before coffee cake was first mentioned, though technically even then by another name, the German “gugelhupf”.

Basically, it's a case of not looking at coffee exclusively as a dry ingredient - try adding it to your cake mix in its liquid form. And don't be afraid to keep it nice and punchy, as the rest of the ingredients will dilute the flavor significantly.

By soaking or dipping ingredients in coffee, you can impart a pungent coffee flavor into each bit. This technique is common in baked goods where whole pieces of an ingredient are mixed into the batter at the end, such as Tiramisu, fruit cake, and bread pudding.

Under- extracted coffee can taste sour, salty, or lack sweetness, and the finish or mouthfeel doesn't linger. Over-extracted coffee can taste bitter, dry or empty, lacking body. Under-extracted coffee can be fixed by using more water or hotter water, brewing longer, using finer coffee grounds or more coffee grounds.

Studies have showed that the sodium ions in salt suppress the bitterness in coffee and enhances its taste. Salt improves organ functions and prevents low blood pressure. Sprinkle a pinch of salt on your coffee beans or instant mix before brewing for an unfamiliar yet enjoyable taste.