Monday, January 11, 2010

Chocolate Streusel Coffee Cake





Rose's Heavenly Cakes, Page 55: Chocolate Streusel Coffee Cake

This cake is pretty straight forward so is not a difficult cake to bake. However, i don't understand why we have to bake the cake into a 6-cup bundt pan and 2 cupcakes. I would think it would be much easier to bake the batter either in all cupcakes or just 1 bundt pan right?  I have been dying to try out the mini bundt pans i bought from Melbourne April last year,  so i baked the cake into 8 mini bundt cakes. :)

I put in the chocolate streusel mixture (i did use light muscovado sugar this time - i realised i had a packet in my pantry all the time - i bought quite some time back and forgot about it! lol!) into the batter but i think i didn't put enough so there's quite a lot left. I heated up some left over sour cream, mix in the chocolate streusel mixture, a bit of butter & a bit of icing sugar and piped it over mini cakes.

Verdict: This cake is absolutely delicious! The texture/crumbs of the cake is extremely soft, delicate and very moist. Paired with the chocolate streusel it is absolutely heavenly! A MUST bake again cake! This recipe is definitely a keeper..not only is it easy to bake, it is soooo sooooo good!  Everyone in my family loves it.  I think I'm going to bake a batch of these again in cupcake form tomorrow. :)

18 comments:

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    Looks fabulous, as usual!

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  2. good call on making the leftover streusel into a sour cream glaze! your mini bundts are very cute!

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  3. They look wonderful! Let me know how it goes as cupcakes!

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  4. The mini bundts look wonderful! What a good idea to make a drizzle with the extra filling. It looks like it might be worth making extra filling just to do that next time.

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  5. I love the mini-bundt pans and the glaze!

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  6. Fantastic. I agree, next time I am just going to put all the batter in my 10 cup pan and be done with it.

    Raymond

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  7. This looks so pretty. I don't normally like coffee stuff but I would definitely try this.

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  8. Thank you Mendy, Jennifer, Ianier, Mamatkamal, Juanita, Shoshana, Lois, Raymond & Sarah!

    @Juanita: I'll let you know when i baked them in cupcake form. Some of our HCB have baked them in cupcake forms and they said it was good and they looked really good too!

    @Sarah: Sarah, this "coffee cake" has no real coffee in it - it's just a term..maybe it's American? I guess their coffee cake = what we term as 'tea-cakes'? ..i think..*shrugs*..lol!

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  9. Beautiful! Love the cake's texture and the choc drizzle on top. I wish I hadn't skipped this cake, ha ha :o)

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  10. gosh!

    *drooling over your mini bundts*

    gorgeous presentation faithy! as usual.

    I love the way you made the drizzle, i would never have thought that. instead I'd just gobble it all up myself .. haha

    kudos!

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  11. Me again!
    I have nominated your blog for a Happy 101 Award, come see at
    http://blog.maisoncupcake.com/2010/01/leek-and-goats-cheese-tart-and-two.html

    Ah I see the coffee was a red herring. I love tea cakes even though I don't drink tea!

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  12. Oh yum. They look so cute and dainty!

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  13. It's me again, haha. I wanted to let you know that I passed along the Happy 101 award to you, because it makes me happy every time you blog! http://sugarcrafter.net/2010/01/12/more-blog-love/

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  14. I must join in the chorus of praise for the chocolate drizzle--it makes the cute bundt-lets look even more luscious. And now I'm pondering if a bittersweet drizzle might solve my only problem with this cake, which is that it's too sweet for my tastes. Maybe I'll have to try the experiment.

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  15. This must be very delicious. I can see the very fine texture. I would love that with a cup of hot tea now. That would make my day :)

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  16. Faithy - I absolutely adore you mini bundts!!!!

    :)
    ButterYum

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