Coffee Cake Recipes for Mother's Day

Alanna Kellogg — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:09:42 -0500

Okay, so Moms are the real stars on Mother's Day but a close second? That would be the coffee cakes that take center stage on the tables of spring celebrations, whether a brunch, a family dinner, a late-day barbecue. I've collected some stellar coffee cake recipes from my fellow food bloggers. As good as these coffee cake recipes all look, well, look out, Mom, you've got some competition.

Cookbook Catchall ~ Moist & Marbled Coffee Cake, "a crowd pleaser. It’s simple and fairly quick and is made in a bundt pan that always makes cakes taste better." (Like the photo? It's from Cookbook Catchall.)

Smitten Kitchen ~ Big Crumb Coffee Cake, with rhubarb, a "tangy, impossibly moist, vanilla-flavored cake base ceilinged with hefty crumbs that will make all streusels that came before pale in contrast"

FatFree Vegan Kitchen ~ Banana Coffee Cake, with two bananas, "It's creamy. It's sweet. It's so creamy and sweet that I almost called it Banana Pudding Cake. The bananas melt down to a creamy layer that dissolves into the cake around it so that it's hard to tell where bananas end and cake begins."

What Did You Eat? ~ Strawberry Coffee Cake, with "fresh strawberries on top of the batter creating little lakes of juice as they bake"

Joy the Baker ~ Mocha Coffee Cake with Expresso Glaze, "this cake has three (yes, count 'em, three) delicious flavors marbled together: vanilla, chocolate and espresso"

AlpineBerry ~ Raspberry Walnut Cake, "the berry juices soak into the top of the golden cake especially when combined with that crunchy sweet nutty streusel topping"

Closet Cooking ~ Light Swirl Coffee Cake with Maple Glaze, "the swirl is formed by half of the coffee cake being chocolate and the other half being plain"

Cream Puffs in Venice ~ Apricot Jam & Almond Coffee Cake, "one of the best coffee cakes I've had in a very long time"

Whipped ~ Blueberry Coffee Cake, "easy, delicious and beautiful"

Fresh from the Oven ~ Lemon Lavender Coffee Cake, "the smell of lavender while the cake is baking in the oven is the best aromatherapy"

Laura Rebecca's Kitchen ~ New York-Style Crumb Cake

Do you have a favorite coffee cake recipe? Bloggers, leave a link to your post in a comment. Blog Readers, share the recipe in a comment.

BlogHer food editor Alanna Kellogg thinks Mother's Day is the perfect occasion for her Raspberry Morning Cake.

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