Pumpkin Cream Cheese Coffee Cake
This is a perfect dessert for your Halloween party or a treat on the table for Thanksgiving morning.Plan Ahead Note: the butter and cream cheese need to be brought to room temperature.
Ingredients
Streusel
- 2 Tablespoons whole wheat pastry flour
- 2 Tablespoons brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 Tablespoons butter softened
Cream Cheese Filling
- 8 oz. cream cheese softened
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 Tablespoon milk
Pumpkin Cake
- 2 ¼ cups whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 ¼ teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground ginger
- ⅛ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ½ cup butter softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar packed
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup sour cream
Instructions
Streusel
- Mix flour, brown sugar, and cinnamon together.
- Cut in the softened butter until small crumbs form. Set aside.
Cream Cheese Filling
- Mix together softened cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, and milk until smooth and creamy. Set aside.
Pumpkin Cake
- Preheat oven to 350° and butter and flour a bundt pan.
- In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and spices; set aside.
- Cream together butter, sugar, and brown sugar until fluffy.
- Add pumpkin puree and mix until combined (mixture may look broken).
- Add eggs and vanilla to the pumpkin mixture and mix well.
- Stir in sour cream.
- Fold in flour mixture until evenly combined.
- Pour half of the pumpkin mixture into the prepared bundt pan.
- Sprinkle half of the streusel over the pumpkin mixture.
- Spread the cream cheese filling over the pumpkin batter.
- Sprinkle the remaining streusel over the cream cheese filling.
- Pour the remaining pumpkin batter over the streusel and spread evenly.
- Bake until a wooden pick inserted into thee center comes out clean, 60-70 minutes.
- Let cool one hour before turning out of pan onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
Recipe from Bob’s Red Mill