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Coffee Cake with Sweetened Condensed Milk Frosting + Coffee Milk Crumbs

By: Lyndsay // Coco Cake Land
Makes: 1 nine-inch cake

ingredients

Coffee cake

  • 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 1 cup white granulated sugar
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 4 eggs, room temperature
  • 2 ¾ cups all purpose flour
  • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¾ cup dark roast coffee
  • ¼ cup milk, I used 3.25%

Sweetened condensed milk frosting

  • ¾ cup unsalted butter
  • 2 cups icing sugar
  • ¼ cup + 1 tablespoon sweetened condensed milk

Coffee milk crumbs

  • ¾ cup skim milk powder
  • cup finely ground dark roast coffee beans
  • ½ cup all purpose flour
  • 3 tablespoons white granulated sugar
  • ¾ teaspoon salt
  • 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

instructions

Make the cake

  • Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease and flour a 9 x 2 inch round cake or 9 inch square cake pan.
  • Beat the butter until light and fluffy.
  • Add the sugars and mix until completely incorporated.
  • Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
  • In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt. In a liquid measuring cup, stir together the coffee and milk.
  • Add a ⅓ of the flour mixture to the butter-sugar mixture and mix until combined. Add 1/2 of the coffee mixture and mix well. Continue alternating
  • between adding the flour and coffee mixtures, ending with flour.
  • Pour batter into your cake pan and bake in a regular oven for 35-40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
  • Let cake cool completely on wire rack before icing.

Make the frosting

  • Beat the butter on medium until light and fluffy.
  • Beat in icing sugar and when smooth, beat in condensed milk until thick, smooth and fluffy.
  • Using a small offset spatula, ice the cooled cake with the frosting.

Make the milk crumbs

  • Preheat the oven to 275 degrees; line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  • Note: You can make the crumbs as the cake cools.
  • Combine the skim milk powder, ground coffee, flour, sugar, cornstarch and salt in a medium bowl.
  • Add melted butter and mix until everything clumps together.
  • Spread the mixture evenly onto the baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes.
  • Remove from oven and let cool.
  • Add a generous amount of the coffee milk crumbs to the top of your cake.

notes

Coffee milk crumbs recipe adapted from this Milk Crumbs recipe