This delicious easy-to-make classic homemade coffee cake recipe is the perfect sweet treat to serve up for breakfast or brunch. I make mine extra thick with extra streusel for the most delicious coffee cake ever.

Coffee cake has been around for generations and is said to have originated in Dresden, Germany. The Danish however was responsible for enhancing the cake to make it sweet and introduced eating it with coffee.

This simple to make cake is one of my favorite things to enjoy with coffee in the morning time as it can balance out the flavors of sweet cake with bitter coffee, much like how you enjoy beignets with chicory coffee.

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Ingredients for this recipe:

For the Filling Layer:

• 1 cup packed light brown sugar
• ½ cup all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

For the Streusel:

• 1 stick of unsalted butter
• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 cups packed light brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon sea salt

For the Cake Batter:

• 2 sticks unsalted butter
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 5 large eggs
• 3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 ½ cups whole milk