Coffee cake is one of my favorite treats around the holidays. I mean, cake for breakfast, who doesn’t love?! I wanted to come up with a shortcut recipe that would be a low-stress baking project. So I came up with a recipe using boxed cake mix! It’s really pretty simple. You layer the cake batter with some crumbly brown sugar topping and it is so good! I brought some to work and my coworkers were obsessed. I will definitely be making this throughout the holiday.
If you’re not a fan of cranberries, you could also use blueberries or blackberries. And if you don’t have walnuts really any nut would work! A note about the sour cream/Greek yogurt: I tested the recipe with both and the sour cream is definitely better. I was trying for a lighter version with the Greek yogurt, and it still tastes great, but would recommend the sour cream if you’re choosing between the two.
Cranberry Walnut Coffee Cake
12
servings15
minutes50
minutesIngredients
1 box yellow cake mix
1/2 cup melted butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 tbsp plus 1 tsp cinnamon
3 large eggs
1 1/2 cups sour cream or plain Greek yogurt
1 cup fresh cranberries
Directions
Preheat oven to 350.
Remove 1/2 cup of cake mix from the box and combine with melted butter, brown sugar, chopped nuts and 1 tbsp cinnamon.
In a separate mixing bowl, combine remaining cake mix with eggs, sour cream/greek yogurt, and 1 tsp cinnamon until batter is smooth. Fold in cranberries.
Pour half of the cake batter into greased 9x9 pan. Top with half of the crumb mixture. Repeat layers.
Bake for 50 minutes to an hour, until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.
How delicious does that look? You will be the star of the show if you show up to your holiday event with this coffee cake. And noone will guess it came from a boxed mix!
Biscuits & blessings,
Leels
