This easy Eggnog Glazed Gingerbread Coffee Cake has a light texture with the warm spices of gingerbread, a hearty crumb topping, and a sweet eggnog drizzle! You’ll want to add this coffee cake to your next holiday brunch menu!
This recipe is made in partnership with Red Star Yeast. As always, all opinions are my own.
The holiday season is in full swing! The oven is on almost every day, Christmas music is playing, and decorations are up! With the arrival of the holidays comes some of my favorite flavors. Peppermint, eggnog, and, of course, gingerbread.
While I’m not a big fan of gingersnaps and plain gingerbread, I love baking with the gingerbread flavor. Like this gingerbread coffee cake!
Have you ever made a yeasted coffee cake before? While I bake with yeast on a regular basis, yeasted coffee cakes are something that I don’t make very often. I don’t know why that is.
Thanks to my favorite Red Star Platinum Superior Baking Yeast, the yeast gives the cake a light, fluffy texture and keeps the cake from getting too dense. And all you have to do is add the yeast to the dry ingredients. Every time I make one, I wonder why I don’t do it more often!
Don’t let the long list of ingredients scare you! A lot of those ingredients are spices that are used more than once, and the rest of the ingredients are common ingredients that are easy to find!
After a few different variations on amounts of molasses and eggnog to use, I settled on leaving eggnog out of the actual cake and just using it in the drizzle to keep the cake from getting too rich.
I also decided to keep the molasses to just a couple of tablespoons. But to that you add in lots of warm gingerbread spices, top it with a rich, buttery crumble, and drizzle it all with a sweet eggnog glaze!
All you have to do is whisk most of dry ingredients together, warm up the wet ingredients and combine. Then stir in the remainder of the flour, the egg, and vanilla. You’ll end up with a soft, sticky batter. Spread it into the pan getting the batter close to the edges, and let it rise.
Once it has puffed and is almost doubled in size, top it was the crumb topping and bake! It’s that simple.
Right before serving I like to grate nutmeg over the top for a boost of that eggnog flavor, but feel free to leave it off if you don’t have whole nutmeg on hand. Festive and full of Christmas flavor!
Tips for Making Gingerbread Coffee Cake:
- It is important that your liquids are warm enough to activate the yeast, especially if your house is on the cooler side. (If you’re like me living where it gets really cold, and you don’t heat your house a lot, it’s even more important that you have your liquids warm enough!)
- If you don’t have a warm place to allow your batter to rise, use the “Proof” setting on your oven or preheat your oven to the lowest setting possible, turn it OFF, then stick your batter in the oven and allow to rise.
- I’ve tried using a couple different types of milk (and eggnog!) with this recipe, and milk that was 1% or higher worked the best.
This easy Eggnog Glazed Gingerbread Coffee Cake has a light texture with the warm spices of gingerbread, a hearty crumb topping, and a sweet eggnog drizzle! As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases. Nutrition information shown is an estimate provided by an online calculator and may not always be accurate. It should not be considered a substitute for a medical professional’s advice.
Eggnog Glazed Gingerbread Coffee Cake
Ingredients
For the Cake
For the Crumble
For the Glaze
Instructions
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 10
Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving:
Calories: 318Total Fat: 10gSaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 46mgSodium: 253mgCarbohydrates: 53gFiber: 1gSugar: 35gProtein: 4g
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Sandi says
That cake looks so light and fluffy…fabulous!
sue | theviewfromgreatisland says
This cake looks amazing, I love the pretty glaze! I also love Red Star yeast, but I haven’t seen the platinum, I’m going to check it out 🙂
Ginny says
Wow! A yeast coffeecake! I love this and wish I had some right now. This sounds so good.
Lisa Huff says
Hmmm I haven’t seen that yeast either. Going to check it out!
Joyce says
I love coffee cake, I find the best part is always crumble topping on top – I swear I could just pick it all off and eat just that haha! 🙂 so I am super happy to have found one that I can make for the holidays! 🙂