Submitted by: Karen
Image (c) Erika Yac
“This is my recipe for Herman or Amish Friendship Bread Coffee Cake.”
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 30-40 minutes
Servings: 16
Yield: 16 slices
Ingredients
1 cup Amish Friendship Bread Starter
2 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup oil
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup of your choice: nuts, apples, raisins, chocolate chips, etc.
Coffee Cake Crumble Topping
Directions
- Preheat oven to 325° F (165° C).
- In a large mixing bowl, add ingredients as listed and mix on medium speed.
- Add 1 cup of your choice of nuts, apples, raisins, chocolate chips, etc.
- Pour the batter into cake pan.
- Sprinkle on Coffee Cake Crumble Topping on top of batter.
- Bake for one hour or until the bread loosens evenly from the sides and a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean.
- ENJOY!
Kitchen Notes
If adding chocolate chips, eliminate cinnamon.
From Janet Lottes Young: “For a church coffee hour, I made the Coffee Cake Amish Friendship Bread, substituting coriander for the cinnamon in the batter, doubling the streusel topping amount and swirling it in, then adding a vanilla glaze after it was baked. The pastor’s wife said it was the best coffee cake she’s ever had! Thanks, FBK!”
What size cake pan do you use? It isn’t in the instrutions. Thanks
Hi Teresa! You can use 2 loaf pans, 2 cake pans, 1 bundt pan, 1 9 X 13 pan, etc. Most of the recipes in the Recipe Box are the same way.
Happy Baking!
I made this tonight…it is baking as we speak…it smells soooooo good! thanks for a great recipe
I saw the comment about using a 9X13, so I tried this, only it was WAY to big for one batch. I made two batches for the 9X13.
Also I buttered the pan and instead of flouring it I did a cinnamon sugar mixture. Turned out awesome!! I used the same mixture that I used for snickerdoodles, because I had some left over.
couldn’t you cut this recipe to half and use 9 by 9 pan?
Thanks for your tips. We’ll add it to the Kitchen notes.
I wouldn’t, the recipe itself was to small for the 13X9 so I wouldn’t cut the recipe in half to fill a 9 X 9.
Thanks!
Hi……..just to clear this up for me….if I make this in a bundt pan I’d need to double the recipe as well? Since in a comment the baking pans are pretty universal but this recipe wasn’t enough to fill the 9 x 13…….hope that’s clear:))
Hi Rhonda!
Sorry for any confusion.This is a reader submitted recipe so the Kitchen has not tested it.
From what we have read, the recipe is best in a 9 X 9 pan. If you try it and get something different, please let us know.
great tasting yum,yum
Made this today for the first time. I substituted 1/2 the flour with King Arthur’s White Whole Wheat flour and 1/2 the oil with unsweetened applesauce. Turned out really good! Thank you for this website and all the recipes – I was recently given amish bread starter for the first time and now I have a lot of it!!
Hi Christine,
Thanks for stopping into the Kitchen! We are thrilled you tried this recipe and like it. We will add your changes to the Kitchen Notes. Feel free to snap pictures of what you make. We love seeing them. Have fun with your new Starter.