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Lemon Coffee Cake

written by Vera Z. May 4, 2018
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Lemon Crumb Coffee Cake recipe

Lemon Coffee Cake is a delicious, moist and sweet breakfast or snack cake, and also a very easy dessert recipe. Bursting with tangy lemon flavor, this coffee cake is the perfect treat to enjoy this spring or summer! You should definitely try my Blueberry Cheesecake Crumb Cake, too.

This tender and fluffy cake is super moist. It has a tart lemon curd layer in the center, cheesecake layer on top and irresistible, crunchy and buttery crumb topping!

Tangy Lemon Coffee Cake Breakfast or Dessert Recipe

This tender and fluffy cake is super moist. It has a tart lemon curd layer in the center, cheesecake layer on top and irresistible, crunchy and buttery crumb topping!

As I said so many times before, I LOOOOOVE COFFEE CAEKES and CRUMB CAKES!!! They are perfect excuse to eat cake for breakfast. I’ve shared so many recipes so far: Raspberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake, Strawberry Cheesecake Coffee Cake, Easy Cinnamon Coffee Cake, Pumpkin Coffee Cake and Cinnamon Apple Crumb Cake.

However, this Lemon Coffee Cake is perfect choice for refreshing summer breakfast, snack or dessert.

Tangy lemon curd and cream cheese layer make this simple coffee cake really special and so delicious.

Big piece of Lemon Coffee Cake.

Easy Lemon Coffee Cake with Homemade Lemon Curd

Whenever I make coffee cakes, crumb cakes or muffins I like to add greek yogurt or sour cream in the batter. This time I used sour cream. You won’t be able to taste it in the cake, but it makes the cake so tender and super moist.

This Lemon Coffee Cake has so much flavor and amazing texture combo. Every single bite bursting with lemon. And crunchy crumb topping pair so good with smooth cheesecake and lemon curd filing and moist and tender cake.

Also, I made homemade lemon curd, but you can skip this extra step and use store-bought. Actually, I hesitated for years to try to make it myself. For the first time I made homemade lemon curd when I made my Blueberry Cupcakes with Lemon Curd Filling. And that was a few years ago. Since I realized it’s not hard at all, I usually make my own lemon curd, but you don’t have to if you like to save some time.

However, if you are a lemon lover, then you will love this cake. If you need more lemon recipes check this Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins or Lemon Blueberry Muffins.

Lemon Coffee Cake

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Lemon Coffee Cake


★★★★★ 5 from 8 reviews
  • Author: Vera Z.
  • Prep Time: 25 minutes
  • Cook Time: 45-55 minutes
  • Total Time: 1 hour 40 minutes
  • Yield: 16 slices 1x
  • Category: Dessert
  • Method: Oven
  • Cuisine: American
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Lemon Coffee Cake is a delicious, moist and sweet breakfast or snack cake, and also a very easy dessert recipe. Bursting with tangy lemon flavor, this coffee cake is the perfect treat to enjoy this spring or summer!


Ingredients

Crumb Topping:

  • 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
  • Dash of salt
  • 3 Tablespoons light brown sugar
  • 5 Tablespoons sugar
  • 4 Tablespoons unsalted butter-melted and slightly cooled

Cake:

  • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 6 Tablespoons unsalted butter-softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • grated lemon zest from 1 lemon
  • 2 eggs
  • ¾ cup sour cream
  • 1 cup lemon curd (store bought or homemade)

Cream Cheese Filling:

  • 8 oz. cream cheese-softened
  • 1 egg
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla
  • 4 Tablespoons sugar

Homemade Lemon Curd:

  • ½ cup lemon juice
  • 2 teaspoons lemon zest
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 5 Tablespoons unsalted butter

Instructions

  1. To make homemade lemon curd, in a sauce pan melt the butter.  Remove from the heat, add sugar, lemon juice and lemon zest, whisk to combine. Add eggs and whisk well. Place over medium heat and cook for 5-6 minutes until all sugar dissolve and the mixture is thick enough to hold the marks from a whisk. Cool completely.
  2. Preheat the oven to 350 F. Line 8 x 8 x 2 inch square baking pan (or 9 x 9 inch pan) with parchment paper leaving an overhang the sides, spray with non-stick spray and set aside.
  3. First make the crumb topping. In a bowl stir together flour, sugar, brown sugar and salt. Then add melted butter and stir with a fork until pea size crumb form. Set in the fridge until ready to use.
  4. To make the cake beat softened butter for a minute, then add sugar and beat until creamy. Add lemon zest, vanilla and eggs and mix to combine.
  5. Add sour cream and mix well, then mix in flour, baking powder and salt. Spread half of the batter in prepared pan.
  6. Spread 1 cup of lemon curd over the batter but don’t go all the way to the edges (or it will burn during baking).
  7. Spoon remaining batter on top.
  8. Beat cream cheese, vanilla, sugar and egg until smooth. Spread cream cheese mixture over the batter.
  9. Sprinkle with crumb topping and bake about 45-55 minutes or until the center has set. If it browns too much tent the top with aluminum foil.
  10. Cool for 30 minutes in the pan, then pull the paper and lift the cake and transfer to a rack to cool completely.
  11. Dust with powdered sugar before serving if desired.
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48 comments

Biana May 10, 2018 - 7:25 am

Dear Vera! Thanks a lot for recipe and for instructions. Can you please, point the right temperature for baking. Regards, Biana

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Sasha April 9, 2019 - 12:27 pm

And the coffee??

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Cynthia May 24, 2019 - 1:23 pm

Sasha, what do you mean by “And the coffee??”?

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Larkin Kat January 3, 2021 - 10:13 pm

Cynthia . . Coffee ? You don’t get it or are you jk’n ?

★★★★★

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Biana May 10, 2018 - 7:27 am

Dear Vera! Thank you for the recipe! Please, point the temperature for baking. Thanks in advance, Biana

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Vera Z. May 10, 2018 - 10:32 am

Hi Biana, bake it at 350 F 🙂

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Laurentia Hatcher June 7, 2018 - 3:49 am

Dear Vera,
Thank you very much, for the recipe, all looks yummy.

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Vera Z. June 7, 2018 - 7:30 am

Thanks Laurentia 🙂

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April April 16, 2019 - 12:26 am

Can I make this a day in advance?

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Vera Z. April 16, 2019 - 7:15 am

Hi April, you can do that, it’s good for a few days!

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Mickie June 11, 2018 - 12:51 pm

Too many ads with the recipe!! When you print the recipe it’s 3 pages long instead of 2.

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Carmyn April 4, 2019 - 3:07 am

Cut and paste to Word doc and print.

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JM June 17, 2018 - 3:10 pm

This cake is a keeper. Thank you for posting it!

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Julia E. September 6, 2018 - 12:25 am

Do you think this could be made without the cream cheese layer? Some in my family don’t care for it. I bet it would still taste good. Your pictures of the cake are amazing!

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Vera Z. September 6, 2018 - 7:58 am

Hi Julia, you can make it without cream cheese layer!

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Jill October 9, 2018 - 12:14 am

I’ve got this in the oven right now and the center isn’t setting up! 😱 What do I do in the future?

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Paulette November 22, 2018 - 12:56 am

I made this for my husband to take to work and we couldn’t help getting into it first! It was absolutely delicious and a big hit. I added 10 minutes baking time and it came out perfect. Will be making more! Thanks for the recipe.

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Vera Z. November 22, 2018 - 11:33 am

Thanks Paulette 🙂

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Sarah S. February 10, 2019 - 1:51 am

I had a taste for something sweet and stumbled upon this recipe. It was a bit of work to make everything, but absolutely worth it! I will definitely be making this again. Like the recipe says, it’s good for breakfast or dessert. Thank you for sharing!

★★★★★

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Vera Z. February 10, 2019 - 5:49 pm

Thanks so much Sarah! I’m happy to hear that!

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Cheryl March 20, 2019 - 11:35 pm

Can you double the recipe and bake in a 13×9? How long would it need to bake?

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Vera Z. March 21, 2019 - 7:45 am

Hi Cheryl, you can double the recipe and bake it just a little longer.

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Sheri March 22, 2019 - 3:41 am

Hi I would like the recipe and directions for this lemon coffee cake. Please send to me.
Thanks

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Barbara Perkins April 19, 2019 - 1:22 pm

Getting ready to make
Can u freeze this?

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Vera Z. April 19, 2019 - 3:38 pm

Yes you can freeze it.
Happy baking!

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Diana May 8, 2019 - 1:38 pm

These are my new favorite lemon bars, thank you so much for the recipe. The instructions were very easy to follow , I only reduced the amount of sugar a little bit and they turned out great!

★★★★★

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Leslie Yurrin May 11, 2019 - 11:26 pm

Okay it took me twice to make the curd, but I did it. I’m glad I read the comments and added extra cooking time. I was so worried with the curd and cream cheese layer it wouldn’t set, but it did and my goodness it is so good. Such a great lemon flavor.

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Vera Z. May 12, 2019 - 12:17 pm

Thanks Leslie!

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Sharon W December 31, 2019 - 12:02 am

Hi Vera,
It looks like you live a cold climate, but where I live on the Sunshine Coast of Australia it can get very hot & extremely humid. Would like to know if you have ever frozen this cake to save for later as I find I have to consider doing this with food as it goes off very quickly in the humidity if left out and I don’t always have enough space in my fridge.

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Georgeta Pourchot April 17, 2020 - 8:26 pm

Excellent cake. I wanted to make a note that I tried a variation, by making a pineapple curd instead of lemon, and it worked very well. I decreased the amount of sugar for the curb though. Tonight, I am trying a cranberry curd, that way we will have the layers even more pronounced. I have a bunch of clementines that need to be used and I like to add plenty of zest to bot cake batter and curd. Thank you very much for this recipe, everybody likes it!

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Jacob @FlavorThyme June 15, 2020 - 9:05 pm

Love it! It’s basically my two favorite things combined, lemon bars and coffee cake. What more could you want!!!

★★★★★

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Kristy July 13, 2020 - 6:08 pm

This may be the best lemon coffee cake recipe I have ever made!!! We love it! I live at high altitude, and I just adjusted with the standard “add 2 tablespoons of flour.” Yummy! So glad I discovered this blog.

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Ronak Mehta October 30, 2020 - 7:09 am

Baked this cake for my birthday and it was an absolute hit! So moist and tasty. Thank you for doing what you do

★★★★★

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Jodi hulburt December 23, 2020 - 9:06 pm

This recipe is definitely worth the effort, I usually wouldn’t bother with a complicated recipe to make something to serve with coffee but this one is definitely making its way into my recipe book.
As an experienced cook I wouldn’t change anything in the recipe, it worked perfectly.
Thank you for sharing Vera.

★★★★★

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Vera Z. December 31, 2020 - 12:37 pm

Thanks, Jodi!

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Brenda Cassidy January 4, 2021 - 2:21 am

Dear Vera
Could you put blueberry filling instead of the lemon?

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Vera Z. January 17, 2021 - 5:44 pm

Hi, I haven’t tried it in this recipe, but I guess it will work

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maralyn D. January 6, 2021 - 3:55 pm

Ambrosial! I had to cook it an extra 5 minutes. Had a jar of Trader Joe’s lemon curd,. Recommend reading through the recipe before starting because it’s layered and suggest a 9×9 pan more accommodating than 8×8.

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Joy Langel January 10, 2021 - 12:11 am

What is the best way to store this coffee cake? Countertop? Refrigerator? Freezer? How long will it keep in each?
I cannot wait to try it!

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Amy January 15, 2021 - 8:58 pm

The ingredients list cream cheese but then sour cream is listed in the directions but not the amount so I’m confused about the cream cheese?

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Ann Roseberry January 16, 2021 - 5:52 pm

In the oven now! Smells so good!

★★★★★

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M Ollie April 11, 2021 - 12:06 pm

Loved it! Perfect recipe. Will be making this one again!!

★★★★★

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