Coffee Lover’s Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake

Your day is sure to be more enjoyable when it’s filled with this incredible Coffee Lover’s Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake. If you love anything coffee-flavored, you are bound to get excited over this insanely good coffee cake. It is tender, fluffy, and totally full of coffee flavors and chocolate together. We love to eat this coffee cake for brunch or a snack. You can enjoy it with some coffee or even tea as a pleasant treat. 

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Coffee Lover’s Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake

Here’s a coffee cake for all those coffee lovers out there! Have a slice with your morning coffee, and you will have your fix for the rest of the day. If you are a coffee addict or know someone who is, you have to make them this coffee cake! Super moist, super delicious sour cream coffee cake exploding with chocolate chips and delicious coffee flavor. The perfect way to kick-start your busy day! 😀

Can I Use Espresso Instead of Instant Coffee? 

You can use espresso if it’s instant. Anything else, then the coffee or espresso won’t properly mix into the batter, and you will be biting into chunks of ground coffee or espresso. I can speak from experience that it’s a bad idea and doesn’t taste good. So, if you find some instant espresso and want to add it in, then by all means, please do! It’s important that you make the recipe the way you like it, so it’s one of your favorites. 

Does This Coffee Cake Need to Be Refrigerated? 

While this coffee cake recipe doesn’t need to be refrigerated, it sure can be! It’s up to you if you prefer it room temperature or chilled. I personally love the texture and flavor of a chilled coffee cake, so I usually keep it in a sealed container in the fridge. Sometimes, if I don’t end up having enough space in the fridge, I will wrap it up and leave it on the counter or put it in the pantry. You can go either way, depending on what you enjoy the most. 

Can I Make This in a Bundt Pan? 

Yes, you can make these chocolate coffee cake in a bundt pan if you wish. I find it’s best to double the recipe if you are making a bundt cake because it’s intended for an 8 x 8 pan normally. Or you will end up with a rather small bundt cake. Before adding the batter to a bundt cake, you need to make sure to grease the pan all the way. This will prevent it from sticking in the pan. Then keep an eye on it, so you bake it long enough. The regular recipe takes 25-30 minutes, but with the bundt pan, you may need to increase the cooking time a fair amount. Start checking it at 30 minutes and add time as needed.

Ingredients

There are two sets of ingredients on this list. There are the filling and topping, as well as the coffee cake itself. Don’t worry; nothing is strange or difficult, though! 

For the Topping and Filling:

• 1/3 cup sugar
• 4 ½ teaspoons instant coffee granules
• 1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon

For the Coffee Cake:

• • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 3 tablespoons butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

How to Make a Coffee Lover’s Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake

Coffee cakes will be forever popular because they are so darn good! Once you taste the combination of chocolate with the coffee cake, you will be in food heaven and won’t’ want to leave. 

First Step: Warm up the oven to 350°. Then add grease an 8-inch square baking pan to prevent sticking and set aside.

Second Step: Begin preparing the topping/filling: Using a small bowl mix together the sugar, coffee granules, and cinnamon, then set aside.

Third Step: Prepare the coffee cake. Using a medium bowl, combine together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt using a whisk then set aside.

Fourth Step: In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter and sugar until crumbly, about 2 minutes. Mix in the egg and vanilla until combined. Carefully and gradually add the flour mixture alternately with sour cream, beginning and ending with flour mixture. (The batter will be thick, and that is normal)

Fifth Step: Spread half of the batter evenly into the prepared baking pan then sprinkle the batter with half the cinnamon-sugar topping and half the chocolate chips. Spoon the remaining batter in 8 dollops over the batter in the pan and spread gently. Sprinkle with the remaining cinnamon-sugar and chocolate chips.

Sixth Step: Bake the chocolate coffee cake for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Enjoy!

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Coffee Lover’s Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake

Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes minutes

Total Time: 45 minutes minutes

Servings: 9 to 12 servings

Your day is sure to be more enjoyable when it's filled with this incredible Coffee Lover's Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake. If you love anything coffee-flavored, you are bound to get excited over this insanely good coffee cake.

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Ingredients 

For the Topping and Filling:

• 1/3 cup sugar
• 4 ½ teaspoons instant coffee granules
• 1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon

For the Coffee Cake:

• 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoons butter, softened
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

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Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 350°. Grease an 8-inch square baking pan and set aside.
• To make the topping/filling: In a small bowl combine the sugar, coffee granules and cinnamon; set aside.
• To make the coffee cake: In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; set aside.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter and sugar until crumbly, about 2 minutes. Beat in egg and vanilla until combined. Gradually add the flour mixture alternately with sour cream, beginning and ending with flour mixture. (The batter will be thick)
• Spread half of the batter evenly into prepared baking pan and sprinkle with half the cinnamon-sugar topping and half the chocolate chips. Spoon the remaining batter in 8 dollops over the batter in the pan and spread gently. Sprinkle with the remaining cinnamon-sugar and chocolate chips.
• Bake 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Notes

Source: adapted from Taste of Home

Author: Laura

You can never have too many coffee cake recipes! Here are a few more of our absolutely favorite coffee cakes we wanted to share with you. 

• Homemade Pumpkin Coffee Cake With Crumb Topping – Pumpkin and the flavors in this coffee cake are truly incredible. They are so amazing during the fall and winter months for all your gatherings and events.

• Raspberry Coffee Cake With Almonds – Every fork full of this coffee cake is loaded with sweet raspberries, moist cake, and crunchy almonds. You need to taste it for yourself to see how delightful it is.

• Fresh Peach Coffee Cake Recipe – You really need to taste this cake if you are a peach lover like I am. It’s so lovely and perfect for summer and spring parties!

• Blueberry Sour Cream Coffee Cake – This scrumptious coffee cake has sweet blueberries and is really moist. It’s hard not to go for a second helping.