Overnight Coffee Cake

Occasionally, I like to treat my kids with something special for breakfast. This overnight coffee cake is super simple to make, and it tastes, so good.  

By preparing the cake the night before and setting it in the refrigerator, you don't have to get up early to make it.  All you do is take it out of the refrigerator and place it in the preheated oven.  What better way to wake up the family then with the scents of cinnamon and nutmeg wafting through the house.

This recipe does call for nuts, but you can leave them out.  I rarely add nuts to our recipes.  We aren't allergic to them, we just don't like them in our food.

Ingredients

3/4 cup butter, softened
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. brown sugar
2 eggs
1 c. buttermilk *
2 c. all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. nutmeg

Topping

3/4 c. brown sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 c.Pecans or walnuts (Optional)

Directions

 

Grease and flour a 9 x 13-inch cake pan.

In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

Add eggs and buttermilk. Mix thoroughly.

Stir in the baking powder, soda, salt cinnamon and nutmeg.

Mix in the flour until the better is smooth.

Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan.

  

In a small bowl, combine the topping ingredients of brown sugar, cinnamon and nuts, if desired.

 

Sprinkle half of this mixture over the top cake batter. Take a knife and cut through the batter to swirl the sugar and cinnamon mixture through the cake batter. Then, sprinkle the remaining sugar cinnamon mixture evenly over the top of the cake.  Do not cut through or swirl this. 

 

Cover the pan with clear plastic, or foil, and place in the refrigerator for 8 hours or longer.

The next morning, preheat oven to 350°.

 
Remove the coffee cake from the refrigerator and take off the plastic wrap.

Bake 35 to 45 minutes, or until cakes tests done with a toothpick. To test, insert a toothpick in the center of the cake. If it comes out clean, you know it is done. 

 

Cut while the coffee cake is still warm. Eat and enjoy. 

 

Notes *

 

If you don’t have buttermilk, you can substitute it by mixing the milk, add 1 tablespoon vinegar.    Allow the mixture to sit for 5 minutes before adding it to your cake. Don't worry when the milk turns lumpy, because that is what it is supposed to do.