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Guest chef: Tanya's delicious coffee cake!

Easy fruit coffee cake

It's been well over a year since our first recipes from guest chef Tanya (you can read about those here!), so when we saw her recipe for Easy Fruit Coffee Cake in our latest issue of Hidden Wisdom Magazine, we couldn't wait to try it! :)

Hidden Wisdom is a family-oriented magazine edited by one of my long-time friends, Abigail. When the quarterly issues arrive in our mailbox, Joshua often picks them up and reads them along with me! An issue arrived this week and was sitting on the kitchen counter... before I knew it, Joshua was browsing the recipe section and had decided to make Tanya's coffee cake recipe!

Tanya's recipe was originally a blueberry coffee cake, but she noted that she had used raspberries or cranberries in place of the blueberries, with great success. We used cranberries from our freezer, and it turned out great! I thought perhaps the cranberries would be too tart in the cake, but it was wonderful.

Joshua and I both agreed that this Easy Fruit Coffee Cake is an excellent recipe that we will be making over and over again! We've already made it twice this week. And we doubled the recipe both times. Before you count up how many servings that is, remember that I'm eating for two... ;)

So, if you have some fruit in your freezer, and want to warm your house (and tummies!) with some easy winter baking... try this coffee cake! :)

Bio:

Tanya with her youngest son, Benjamin

Tanya Luscombe is a stay-at-home wife, and mom to five little blessings. She lives in Canada and has been married for 10 years to her beloved husband. They homeschool their children. Tanya's days are filled with being a wife and mama, but she also likes to sew, read, garden, and cross stitch when she has time! Tanya loves the Lord and seeks to serve Him in all she does! You can check out her blog here. :)

Comments

Lilyofthevalley's picture

Nice surprise!

I'm a guest chef again, nice surprise! :) I agree this cake is delicious and so fast and simple to make. :) I have another recipe I want to send along to you, I think you will like it too. :)~Tanya

Question

Tammy,

Tanya's recipe looks delicious. I do have a question for you. I don't have any of the fruits mentioned, but I do have some frozen strawberries. I think I might try using those. Do you think those would work?

Thanks,

Carol

Lilyofthevalley's picture

strawberries in coffee cake

Hello Carol, I hope you don't mind me answering, but I made this just this evening with frozen strawberries and it worked well. Strawberries may not keep their bright colour, but the cake turned out and it is delicious too. I had been wondering if you could use strawberries, and now I have tried it and it was sucessful. :)

Did you try it too??

~Tanya

Tammy's picture

Strawberries in coffee cake

Oh, good! :)

Joshua and I were just discussing whether we thought strawberries would work. :) Did you use whole strawberries, or chop them a little? :)

Lilyofthevalley's picture

strawberries in coffee cake

My strawberries were quite big, so I sliced them. :) ~Tanya

Delicious!

I want to go back and study how you photograph food- you do such a beautiful job. This coffee cake looks delicious! It's one that I'm going to have to try.

Blessings,
Tracy
www.LinesFromTheVine.com

Yum!

That looks great, Tanya! Good job being featured in Hidden Wisdom and on here.....
I am going to have to try it!

I'll Be Trying It

Tanya,

Thanks so much. I have lots of strawberries in the freezer. I'll be making this tomorrow for dessert. I can't wait.

Thanks again.:)

Carol

I Made the Cake with Stawberries and...

it is simply wonderful! My whole family loves it.

I think this would be good even if you didn't have any fruit. Maybe a layer of batter and then a layer of cinnamon and sugar and repeat ending w/ the crumb topping.

Lilyofthevalley's picture

Good!

Yummy!! :) ~Tanya

Dad is happy. I am happy.

My dad was craving coffee cake for a mid-morning snack today, so I searched your site hoping for something yummy- you guessed it, I came across Tanya's recipe! I had a few raspberries and strawberries from the garden, and filled the rest of the cup with frozen raspberries- it worked so well! I added some oatmeal to the topping as well, which I thought was a nice touch. When I was done mixing everything I found myself re-reading the recipe to see what I missed- "Was that all?!" I thought! So easy! Well, Dad is outside enjoying his warm, moist cake while I'm in here thanking you ;) !

-Emily

Substitute????

Can I use any kind of jam for substitutions forstawberry or blueberry. Thanxs

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