Carrot Cake Coffee Cake is a delicious combo of carrot cake, coffee cake, and a cheesecake. Moist and flavorful carrot cake topped with a cheesecake layer and crunchy cinnamon streusel crumb topping is perfect for Easter brunch or any spring breakfast or snack. A slice of this delicious Carrot Cake Coffee Cake with a cup of coffee or a tea is a great way to start a day.
Carrot Cake Coffee Cake
Classic carrot cake just isn’t carrot cake without cream cheese. But instead of a frosting, you can add cream cheese layer right in the cake and bake it all together. The crumb topping makes this carrot cake something special. This cake is perfectly sweet and tangy with warm cinnamon and nutmeg aroma.
With Easter just around the corner, this delicious cake that combines three desserts in one, is the perfect, especially if you will celebrate Easter in a small family circle. You probably won’t need a lot of food for a large number of people. Therefore, this easy cake will be the best choice.
If you can’t decide what dessert you should make for your Easter menu. Whether you want to make a classic carrot cake, cheesecake or coffee cake, you can have them all packed in one easy dessert.
Carrot Cake Coffee Cake is very simple to make. You can enjoy it any day, without a special occasion. Coffee cake is a great way to start a day. It’s perfect for making ahead of time as a grab and go breakfast.
This is a wonderful mix. It’s a moist carrot cake, it has a cheesecake layer, and it has a crumble topping-three layers of yumminess. It’s a perfect breakfast, snack or dessert cake.
How to Make Carrot Cake Coffee Cake
First, grate carrots and set aside. Then make the crumb topping, whisk together flour, sugar, cinnamon, and salt. Using two forks or a pastry cutter, cut in the butter.
For the cheesecake filling, beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla until smooth. Add in egg and mix until no lumps remain, then set aside.
Then make the carrot cake batter. Cream butter and sugars together until smooth. Add in eggs and vanilla and mix well. Alternate adding the dry mixture with the and mix until evenly combined. Finally, mix in carrots. Spread the mixture in a prepared pan. Then, spread cream cheese mixture on top and sprinkle crumb mixture on top. Bake for 50-60 min or until toothpick comes out clean with just a few moist crumbs attached.
Enjoy!
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Carrot Cake Coffee Cake
Prep Time: 15 minutes- Cook Time: 55 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Yield: 12 1x
Category: dessert
Method: bake
Cuisine: American
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Carrot Cake Coffee Cake is a delicious combo of carrot cake, coffee cake and a cheesecake. Moist and flavorful carrot cake topped with cheesecake layer and crunchy cinnamon streusel crumb topping is perfect for Easter brunch or any spring breakfast or snack.
Ingredients
Cinnamon Crumb Topping:
- ¼ cup (56 grams) unsalted butter-room temperature
- ¼ cup (50 grams) light brown sugar
- ¾ cup (95 grams) all-purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
Carrot Cake:
- 1 ¼ cups (160 grams) all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon (or more to taste)
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg (optional)
- ¼ cup (56 grams) unsalted butter-room temperature
- ½ cup (100 grams) light brown sugar
- ½ cup (100 grams) granulated sugar
- 1 large egg-room temperature
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
- ½ cup plain yogurt
- 7 oz. (200 grams) finely grated carrots
Cream Cheese Layer:
- 8 oz. (220 grams) cream cheese -room temperature
- ¼ cup (50 grams) granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° and line 8 x 8 inches square pan with parchment paper and spray with nonstick spray.
- First, grate carrots and set them aside.
- To make the crumb topping, whisk together flour, sugar, cinnamon, and salt. Using two forks or a pastry cutter, cut in the butter. If the mixture looks sandy, squeeze it with your hands in large clumps, then crumble with your fingers in pea-sized crumbs.
- For the cream cheese layer, beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla until smooth. Add in egg and mix until no lumps remain, then set aside.
- In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg, then set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars together until smooth.
- Add in egg and vanilla and mix well.
- Alternate adding the dry mixture with the yogurt ( ½ of dry ingredients-yogurt-remaining ½ of dry ingredients) and mix until evenly combined.
- Finally, mix in carrots. Spread the mixture in a prepared pan.
- Gently spread cream cheese mixture on top (don’t go all the way to the edges).
- Sprinkle crumb mixture on top of cream cheese mixture.
- Bake for 50-60 min or until toothpick comes out clean with just a few moist crumbs attached.
32 comments
this is such an amazing recipe .. thanks for sharing
Delicious cake…but as far as prep time being 15 minutes, I bake a lot but all those required steps took me about 45 minutes.
I admit I had to grate the carrots by hand but still was lots to do for a 8×8 cake.
Same here – it took so much longer than making just a regular carrot cake plus cream cheese frosting!
I made this the other day…it was amazing. I think I probably should not have used jumbo egg for my cream cheese mixture. But it was the best coffee cake that I have ever made. This recipe is definitely a keeper. Thank you so much
Thanks Tina!
This cake is new to me, never even heard of it!! Looks amazing!! Love carrot cake and coffee cake too!
Michael
This cake sounds so delicious! Could I replace the yogurt in the carrot cake?
Thank you for creating wonderful recipes. I tried and liked your blueberry cheese coffee cake. It was very yummy. I failed baking this carrot cake coffee cake. I followed the exact recipe but my carrot cake did not turn out right, the texture, tasted differently, not like a cake at all. Could it be too much yoghurt(I used set natural yoghurt not the liquid type)? Not sure what went wrong. Is it possible to change the yoghurt to extra eggs. I would love to try again.
Could you substitute something for the yogurt? Also could you use baby food carrots and if so how much?
Step 7 says add eggs and vanilla, but I only see ingredients for 1 egg in the cream cheese layer. Is there egg needed fie the cake batter?
Hi Liz, it’s just a typo. It’s 1 egg.
This recipe looks amazing. My boyfriend and I both love carrot cake. I plan to make it tomorrow. I do not have scales to weigh 7 oz of grated carrots. About how much would that be measuring instead of weighing?
Thank you so much and I’m so happy I ran across your website. I’ll let you know how it turns out.
that’s my question also….how much is 7 0z. shredded carrots by volume? Also, the egg “typo”…is that one egg also in batter of the cake and 1 in the cream cheese mixture?
1 egg in the batter and 1 egg in cream cheese mixture.
Vera ,so theres 1 egg in creamcheese layer and 1 egg in cake layer?
Please disregard my question. I read the other ladies comment about 1 egg and i didnot check recipe myself..
Yes, that’s correct. Happy baking, Susan!
Where is the coffee? I didnt see any coffee in all ingredients.
Can i change the light brown sugar with granulated sugar? Is there any difference use light brown sugar with granulated sugar?
Wheres the coffee..I was.thinking it was a combination..of carrot and coffee cake..but no coffee…
Coffee cake is cake you eat while drinking coffee – it’s not coffee flavored.
Can you make it cupcakes?
Hi! Want to make this soon. Do you think the regular yogurt could be substituted with plain Greek yogurt?
I did not see coffee on the ingredients- how much?
How many carrots in this cake??
Coffee has a unique taste in any recipe, and I love that taste.
Do you really use coffee in this recipe? As I haven’t seen coffee in your ingredients.
Would like to bake in a bundt pan. Have you tried that? Should I double the recipe?
how much in cups is 7 oz. of carrots
How should this be stored — room temp or fridge? Thanks!
HI Stefanie! Store in the fridge. You can bring it to room temperature before serving.
Can I make this in a loaf pan?
What can be used instead of the yogurt?
Absolutely tastefully scrumptious. So yummy.
I can’t believe amount of responses asking where the coffee is in the ingredients 🤦🏻♀️
Great recipe
Thank you