Delicious Amish Strawberry Coffeecake Recipe for Your Next Brunch (2024)

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If you're in the mood for a sweet and fruity breakfast or brunch treat, this strawberry coffee cake recipe is sure to hit the spot. With a moist and fluffy cake base and a layer of fresh strawberries, this coffee cake is easy to make and sure to impress your guests.

Gather Your Ingredients

Before you start making this delicious strawberry coffee cake, make sure you have all the necessary ingredients. You'll need flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, butter, eggs, milk, vanilla extract, and fresh strawberries. Make sure your butter and eggs are at room temperature before you start baking to ensure the best results. Once you have everything you need, you're ready to start baking!

Coffeecakes, like this Best Amish Strawberry Coffee Cake, are a breakfast staple in Amish homes. When I told my youngest daughter that we would be baking a coffeecake, she asked “is there coffee in it?” No, I had to explain to her, there is no coffee in it, although I also told that I have seen some coffeecake recipes that have coffee in it.

Anyway,I explained to her that people just like drinking a cup of coffee with a slice of cake like this. Although, in my case it might be called “co*ke Cake" because I enjoy sipping a can of co*ke in the morning with a slice of this. But I’m not quite sure “co*ke cake “has the same ring to it
This coffee cake, true to Amish tradition, was just so so easy to make.

I will say that the original recipe called for “half “cup of flour. I don't know about you, but when you follow recipes you so badly want to give the author the benefit of the doubt. But I’ve not trusted my instincts a few times lately when I’ve seen recipes and not corrected an obviously mistake, and then that just passes on the mistake to you. I just thought a half cup of flour was an awfully small amountl, I think a cup and a half is what was needed. So I took my chances and I changed it to a cup and a half of flour, and this really turned out very well. I think I made the right call because, well, even with a 1 ½ cups of flour, it is not a huge cake and I didn't tweak the other ingredients, so, yeah, this is a good, good, good recipe. The cake just tastes so fluffy, yet firm and full of fruit! (while I am not sure any fruit would work for this recipe because of the baking, I do think blueberries would do well)

Use fresh strawberries and eggs (or egg).

Get good kitchen help! This is my youngest daughter when we made this two years ago. Geez, how time flies.

Use "room temperature" butter...that kind of threw me, I mean, rooms can be many different temperatures, but...well, I heated mine in the microwave about 5 seconds to get to "room temp."

Beatrice enjoyed putting the strawberries on top.

Slice up a good cup and a half or even two cups of strawberries. I wouldn't do more than two cups.

We used about 1 ½ of berries.

The instructions for this amish strawberry coffeecake call for using a “pastry blender “for the topping… I don’t know what that was, didn’t have one, I didn’t have time to use it if I did, so we just threw together the butter, flour, and sugar and use the fork to mash it all together, eventually I thought a whisk might do better and I use the whisk to sort of mash it up and stir it up, and I think it really turned out just fine.

This is the strawberry coffeecake after it comes out of the oven. So good and loaded with fruit. It is perfect for a spring breakfast or brunch. I mean, you can eat this any time of year, but spring is bursting with fresh berries. So as far as a strawberry coffee cake recipe, it's tough to beat this.

This recipe is super simple, and delicious, as presented but, of course, plenty of your own tweaks and touches can be added. How about some brown sugar and cinnamon in the crumb topping? Sure! Makes it more like a streusel. Or a splash of vanilla extract in the cake batter? Absolutely!

Use fresh sliced strawberries in this recipe. But you can use other fruits in this recipe. During peach season, try it with peaches. Or blueberries! You can serve this cake warm or let the cake cool and eat at room temperature. Cover with plastic wrap to store.

❓ Strawberry Coffee Cake FAQ

🍓 Best Amish Strawberry Coffeecake Ingredients

• ½ cup milk
• 1 ½ cups sliced fresh strawberries
• ½ cup sugar
• ½ cup all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons room temp. butter
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 egg
• ½ teaspoon salt

Topping:

• ¼ cup cold butter
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• ½ cup sugar

📋 Instructions

1. In a mixing bowl, add the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt; stir to mix.
2. In a second bowl, add the egg, milk, and butter; stir to mix; add to dry ingredients and stir just until moistened.
3. Pour mixture into a greased 8-inch square baking dish or pan.
4. Place strawberries evenly over the top of batter.
5. To make the topping: Combine the flour and sugar in a bowl.
6. With a pastry blender, cut in the butter until consistency of coarse crumbs or crumbles.
7. Sprinkle mixture evenly over the strawberries.
8. Bake at 375° for 30-35 minutes or until wooden toothpick comes out clean

🍓 More Amish Strawberry Recipes

Strawberry Bread - Wow!

Strawberry Crisp - So good!

Strawberry Pie - Amazing!

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