Cinnamon Coffee Cake

The formula

Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 78.

	this recipe	typical
fat	56%	63%
total sugar	155%	109%
brown sugar share of total sugar	60%	42%
egg	22%	30%
leavener	2%	2%
salt	1%	1%
liquid	29%	69%
flour strength	1.0	1.0
cornstarch	1%	0%

Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)

Ingredients

Weights computed by us.

114 g	1/2 cup unsalted butter (softened)
227 g	8 oz cream cheese (softened)
213 g	1 cup light brown sugar, (firmly packed)
100 g	1/2 cup granulated sugar
100 g	2 large eggs
6 g	1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
300 g	2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
8 g	2 teaspoons baking powder
3 g	1 teaspoon cornstarch
4 g	3/4 teaspoon table salt
122 g	1/2 cup buttermilk
50 g	1/4 cup sugar
4 g	1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
160 g	1 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
213 g	1 cup + 2 Tbsp brown sugar (packed)
38 g	3 Tablespoons granulated sugar
12 g	4 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 g	1/4 teaspoon salt
142 g	10 Tablespoons unsalted butter (melted )
100 g	1/2 cup powdered sugar
13 g	2-3 teaspoons milk

Method: 16 steps, published by sugarspunrun.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.

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“Let me start by saying I'm a dork. I needed to make a half recipe, so I did all the math. Followed the recipe exactly except I forgot, yes forgot, to add the sugars to the cake batter! so this was more like cinnamon biscuits. Having said, it baked up nicely ” — a cook, 5.0★