What Are Coffee Cake Cookies?

These coffee cake cookies take all the flavors of an actually coffee cake. Think of a coffee cake made with a butter-based cake, filled with a cinnamon filling, topped with a sweet cinnamon streusel topping and sometimes even an icing drizzled on top. Served alongside a hot cup of coffee or tea. Well, these coffee cake cookies are made with a delicious cinnamon cookie base, topped with a cinnamon streusel topping placed in an indent made in the centre of the cookies and topped with a sweet icing that’s drizzled right on top.

Ingredients For Coffee Cake Cookies

• Unsalted Butter: Using unsalted butter allows you to fully control the amount of salt going into your cookies.

• Brown & Granulated Sugar: This recipe uses a combination of both sugars to ensure a soft, chewy and crunchy cookies

• Eggs: Eggs will bind your cookies together. A single egg and an egg yolk will give these cookies are soft, chewy, but not too cakey texture.

• Vanilla Extract: Will give the cookies are depth of flavor.

• All Purpose Flour: The all purpose flour is perfect for these cookies it creates a tender cookie.

• Cinnamon: Cinnamon is the key ingredient to make these coffee cake cookies.

• Baking soda & Baking Powder: It’s a leavening agent.

• Salt: Any baked goods need salt. Salt is used to balance out the sweetness of any dessert.

• Powdered Sugar: Is the main ingredient for the icing.

• Milk: Helps bind the powdered sugar together to make the icing.

Tips for making Coffee Cake Cookies?

1. Streusel: The mixture of the Streusel should stick together, but should also crumble when you run it through your fingers.

2. Wet Ingredients: Beat butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar together until fluffy and mixture turns an off-white color.

3. Mix dry Ingredients together.

4. Scooping: Use a 1,5 ounce cookie scoop, and gently press down the top of each cookie.

5. Baking :Bake for 11 to 12 minutes.

6. Cookies have to be cooled before slightly drizzle on the icing.

How To Store Coffee Cake Cookies?

These coffee cake cookies should be stored at room temperature in an airtight container for 7 days or they can be put in the fridge for up to 10 days.

Serving size

• Around 12 cookies

Ingredients

Cookie Dough

• 2/3 cup butter, room temperature

• 1/2 cup brown sugar

• 1/4 cup granulated sugar

• 1 egg + 1 egg yolk

• 2 tsp vanilla extract

• 1 2/3 cup All-purpose flour

• 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon

• 3/4 tsp baking soda

• 1/2 tsp baking powder

• 1/4 tsp salt

Streusel

• 3 tbsp butter

• 3 tbsp brown sugar

• 6 tbsp flour

• 1/2 tsp cinnamon

• Pinch of salt

Icing

• 1/2 cup powdered sugar

• 1 tbsp milk

Instructions

Step 1

• Preheat oven to 350°F (177C). Line a baking pan with parchment paper and set aside.

Step 2

• To make streusel, combine all the ingredients in a bowl, butter, brown sugar, flour, cinnamon and salt with a spoon or by hand. The mixture should stick together, but should also crumble when you run it through your fingers. If it’s not crumbling, add an additional 1 tbsp of flour and mix until it crumbles.

Step 3

• With a whisk, beat butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar together until fluffy and mixture turns an off-white color (about 2 minutes). Add the egg, egg yolk and vanilla extract and mix until a smooth consistency.

Step 4

• Add the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Mix until a soft dough forms. Use a 1,5 ounce cookie scoop, and gently press down the top of each cookie. Using the back of a cookie scoop or your fingers, make an indent in the centre of the top of the dough. Sprinkle about 1 to 2 tbsp worth of the streusel on top of the cookie in the indent. Bake for 11 to 12 minutes.

Step 5

• While the cookies bake, make the icing. Combine the powdered sugar and milk in a small bowl and mix until it’s smooth and a runny consistency. Once the cookies have cooled slightly, drizzle on the icing. Enjoy!