Graham Streusel Coffee Cake

This Graham Streusel Coffee Cake is an unbelievably easy coffee cake with lots of brown sugar, graham crackers, and cinnamon. Although it’s considered a breakfast food, it’s really a treat for any time of the day. 

I’ve lived in Florida so long that I’m not really sure if this is just a Florida thing or if all grocery stores have a mammoth sized scales right up front next to the empty grocery carts.

So when does self consciousness kick in? At what age do we stop weighing ourselves in public?

You couldn’t pay me to get up there. Even when I go to the doctor now I kick off my flip-flops and take off my sunglasses before I’m weighed.

Because you know those weigh sooo much. I’ve been married 14 years and my husband doesn’t know what I weigh.

This Graham Streusel Coffee cake has layers of cake and streusel all throughout. It’s so easy.

I never really understood why we all pretend that coffee cake is a breakfast food when it is in fact just cake.

I’m not arguing – but who are we kidding? We’ll we’re not trying that hard to pretend that THIS version isn’t just cake because this coffee cake starts with a cake mix. Start by layering half of your prepared cake mix and then layer half of the streusel on top. Pour the remaining half of the cake mix on top (that’s what’s pictured above) and the rest of the streusel. So easy right? Look at that streusel baby. The graham crackers in the streusel gives it that extra crunch. This makes a full 9×13 pan. I made it and was kind of wondering who I should give it away to since there’s no way my family could eat all of that. Wrong. Two days later, we had eaten the whole thing.

Graham Streusel Coffee Cake

3.88 from 16 votes

This Graham Streusel Coffee Cake is an unbelievably easy coffee cake with lots of brown sugar, graham crackers, and cinnamon. Although it's considered a breakfast food, it's really a treat for any time of the day. 

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Prep Time: 10 minutes mins

Cook Time: 25 minutes mins

Total Time: 35 minutes mins

Servings: 16

Ingredients

• 1-1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs, (see Note)
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 3/4 cup chopped pecans
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 2/3 cup butter, melted
• 1 (15.25-oz) package yellow cake mix (and ingredients called for on the package such as eggs and oil)
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tablespoon milk

Instructions

 

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and grease a 9x13 baking pan.
• In a small bowl, combine the graham cracker crumbs, brown sugar, pecans and cinnamon. Stir in butter; set aside.
• Prepare cake mix according to package directions.
• Pour half of the batter into a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan. Bake for 5 minutes so that the streusel doesn't sink to the bottom. Remove from the oven and sprinkle with half of the graham cracker mixture.
• Carefully spoon the remaining batter on top. This is tricky but it's very forgiving. Sprinkle with the remaining graham cracker mixture.
• Bake at 350° for 25-35 more minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.
• For the glaze: combine powdered sugar and milk; add more milk 1 tablespoon at a time to desired consistency. Drizzle over cooled coffee cake.

Notes

You can crush your own graham crackers or look in the baking aisle where they sell the graham cracker crumbs.
Source: Taste of Home

Cuisine: American

Course: Dessert

Author: Christy Denney

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Christy Denney

Christy is the voice behind The Girl Who Who Ate Everything! She is no stranger to making meals that kids and adults will love. She grew up in Mesa, Arizona as the youngest of ten kids. She can always be found in her kitchen with music playing and cooking with her kids. She published her first cookbook in 2014. She loves party food that gets the conversations going!

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