Moist Coffee Cake Muffins (Copycat Recipe) - Crazy for Crust (2024)

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What is the difference between muffins and coffee cake? ›

What is the difference between coffee cake and coffee cake muffins? Coffee cake is typically a cake that is baked in a round or square pan and is topped with a streusel topping. Coffee cake muffins are made with similar ingredients but are smaller in size and baked in a muffin tin.

The primary difference is in the crumbs. While coffee cake may have a small streusel on top or layered inside like a ribbon filling, crumb cake has a much thicker layer of streusel topping and is essentially half crumb, half cake.

History. American Coffee cake evolved from other sweet dishes from Vienna. In the 17th century, Northern/Central Europeans are thought to have come up with the idea of eating sweet cakes while drinking coffee.

The best bakery-style crumb muffins start with cake flour

Cake flour is more finely ground and has less protein, which leaves the muffins with a fine, light crumb and soft texture. Using cake flour is an easy way to avoid heavy, dense muffins even if you end up stirring just a bit too much.

Muffins and cake are very similar in ingredients, but muffins will have less fat content and sugar than cake due to a lack of frosting, and the use of liquid oils that are usually plant based instead of solid fats (such as butter), that are usually animal based and higher in saturated fats.

I was reading chef Paul Fehribach's new book, "Midwestern Food," when I first learned that Cincinnati is the coffeecake capital of the world.

A buckle is a funny name for an old fashioned fruit studded coffee cake. Like many other desserts in the extended cobbler family buckles take their name from their appearance—grunts grunt as they cook, slumps slump when served, buckles—you guessed it—buckle.

Thus, it became commonplace in these countries to have a small sweet served alongside a coffee. It wasn't until 1763 before coffee cake was first mentioned, though technically even then by another name, the German “gugelhupf”.

Coffee cake and regular cake are made with the same ingredients like flour, sugar, eggs, and butter and a leavening agent like baking powder. The difference is that instead of frosting on top, coffee cakes have crumble or streusel. Just like a cake, it can also have glaze or icing.

They are actually made with cinnamon, brown sugar, and butter. They are called coffee cakes because they are best paired with a cup of coffee. Why are they called coffee cake muffins? They are called coffee cake muffins because they go well with coffee.

What makes a muffin different from a cupcake? ›

The fluffy batter is what gives cupcakes their soft, spongy texture. Muffins, on the other hand, are moist and dense. Another important difference between a cupcake and a muffin is that cupcakes tend to have more sugar and so they're a lot sweeter than muffins.

It's a mistake to think that muffins are always healthier than cake. Recipes vary, but store-bought fruit muffins typically have around 5-10 per cent more calories than carrot cake, even when it's iced. Carrot cake tends to have less sugar and salt, as well as seven times the beta-carotene.