Overnight Coffee Cake

Overnight Coffee Cake – our go-to Christmas morning breakfast! Flour, sugar, brown sugar, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, buttermilk, butter eggs, pecans. Assemble the cake the night before and bake in the morning. This is SOOO good! We make it every holiday! #coffeecake #breakfast #cinnamon #pecans

Easy Make-Ahead Breakfast Casserole

Christmas morning is always crazy hectic. We never have time to make breakfast before the presents start getting ripped open! This Overnight Coffee Cake is a great way to have a home-cooked breakfast without the fuss on Christmas morning. I got this recipe from my Mom. She swears by it and now I do too. The cake is made the night before and refrigerated until morning. It takes about 30 minutes to bake. Bonus – the house smells wonderful while it is baking! The cake is so moist and delicious. Perfect for hectic weekdays and holiday mornings.

How to Make Overnight Coffee Cake

This cake is very easy to make. Using a hand-held mixer, mix together flour, sugar, brown sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, buttermilk, butter, and eggs. Pour the batter into a baking dish. Mix together brown sugar, pecans, and cinnamon. Sprinkle the mixture over the cake. Cover and refrigerate overnight. In the morning, remove the dish from the refrigerator, preheat the oven, and bake.

• To make Homemade Buttermilk combine 1 cup of milk with 1 Tablespoon of white vinegar or 1 Tablespoon of Lemon juice. Let the mixture sit until it starts to curdle, about 5 minutes.
• You can bake the cake right away if you don’t have time to let the cake sit overnight.
• Feel free to use walnuts or omit the nuts altogether if you aren’t a fan.
• Can substitute pumpkin spice seasoning for cinnamon.
• Store leftovers in an air-tight container. The cake will keep 2 or 3 days on the countertop.

What to Serve with Coffee Cake

This coffee cake is crazy good! We love all the yummy cinnamon flavor and pecans. This goes great bacon, eggs, hash browns. We usually eat this for breakfast but we’ve also been known to heat up a slice for dessert with a little vanilla ice cream. Yum!

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Overnight Coffee Cake

Author: Stephanie @ Plain Chicken

Yield: 10 people

Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 30 mins

Total Time 40 mins

Overnight Coffee Cake – our go-to Christmas morning breakfast! Flour, sugar, brown sugar, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, buttermilk, butter eggs, pecans. Assemble the night before and bake in the morning. This is SOOO good! We make it every holiday!

Equipment:

• Hand Mixer
• 9×13-inch Cake Pan

Ingredients:

Cake

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup sugar
• ½ cup brown sugar
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 cup buttermilk
• ⅔ cup butter , melted
• 2 eggs

Topping

• ½ cup brown sugar
• ½ cup chopped pecans
• 1 tsp cinnamon

Instructions:

• Combine first 7 ingredients; add buttermilk, butter and eggs. Beat at low speed of an electric mixer just until moistened. Beat at medium speed for 3 minutes. Pour into a greased and floured 9×13-inch pan.
• Combine topping ingredients. Sprinkle over batter. Cover and refrigerate 8-12 hours.
• Remove cake from oven. Preheat oven to 350ºF.
• Bake uncovered for 30-35 minutes.

Notes:

• To make Homemade Buttermilk combine 1 cup of milk with 1 Tablespoon of white vinegar or 1 Tablespoon of Lemon juice. Let the mixture sit until it starts to curdle, about 5 minutes.
• You can bake the cake right away if you don’t have time to let the cake sit overnight.
• Feel free to use walnuts or omit the nuts altogether if you aren’t a fan.
• Can substitute pumpkin spice seasoning for cinnamon.
• Store the cake in an air-tight container. It will keep 2 to 3 days on the countertop. 

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Steph