Everyone needs a classic coffee cake recipe. I’ve taken the liberty of doubling the streusel topping, you’ll thank me for it. Simple to make and leaves your house smelling really good on Sunday morning.
Bisquick Coffee Cake: Betty Crocker
Heat oven to 375°F.
Ingredients:
- Cinnamon Streusel (below)
- 2 cups Original Bisquick® mix
- 2/3 cup milk or water
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 egg
Directions:
- Heat oven to 375°F. Grease 9-inch round pan. Make Cinnamon Streusel; reserve.
- Stir remaining ingredients until blended.
- Mix in a 1/4 of the Streusel topping and spread in pan. Cover with Cinnamon Streusel.
- Bake 18 to 22 minutes or until golden brown, testing with a toothpick.
Cinnamon Streusel Topping
- 2/3 cup Original Bisquick® mix
- 2/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 4 tablespoons butter (firm)
Mix all ingredients in small bowl until crumbly. Cutting them with a knife and fork helps separate the butter.
Thanks for posting this recipe—haven’t had this old favorite in years! I just had to tell you that I made one tonight—and I did it with healthier ingredients and it was still great! I did the following substitutions:
Healthy Substitutions for this recipe (use same measurements):
Heart Healthy Bisquick (instead of regular)
Splenda Brown Sugar Blend for Baking (instead of regular brown sugar)
Splenda (instead of real sugar)
Smart Balance Lite Spread (instead of butter or margarine)
1% or skim milk for the milk
It came out really great—nice texture, tasted wonderful. And saved tons of fat, calories, sugar and carbs!
One item of note: I used an 8 inch square glass pan instead of 9 inch round … and had to bake it for 30 minutes to get the center done. But it was really good.
I thought people watching what they eat might appreciate knowing about this healthier version. My husband has heart problems and diabetes, so we have to watch it.
Enjoy!
Thanks for the info. The sugar substitute really helps out for my diabetic spouse.
My best friend loves this recipe more than life itself. Everytime she visits or I visit her, I have to make it. Just made it-forgot the recipe and thank goodness I found this website. The one thing I change, besides doubling the topping is I make TWO cakes with the recipe of one. I always thought it was a little cakey and making two nine inch cake pans with the same recipe works really well. Man, is it good…gotta go eat!!
Like all the rest of us, I’ve been looking for this for years. Imagine my delight at finding this site before breakfast this morning….. What a treat! Thank You!!
It’s cooking right now. I was surprised to see it not on the box. I used to cook it for my family on weekends as a kid. I got pretty good at so decided to revive it now that I have a 11 month old daughter, Adia Ray. Thanks to the website I am back in business!
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This recipe is a proven winner, even with the old single streusel topping. Can’t wait to try the double-gooey goodness.
Yes! Thanks so much for posting this! I want to make it for my husband’s birthday tomorrow morning. Just like Mom used to make.
Can’t wait to try it! Gotta love Google.
SEEING THIS RECIPE WAS GREAT ! I REMEMBER MAKING IT FOR MY KIDS WHEN MONEY WAS TIGHT. IT’S DELICIOUS AND I’M GOING TO MAKE ONE TONIGHT
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This site is a Godsend! I missed the recipe on the box! Can’t understand it not being on there! Kind of like the fudge recipe on the Hershey’s can! All gone!
Thanks. I hope Bisquick sees how many people lov ethis recipe and put it back on the box! Thank you for providing it for my family to enjoy! Amy
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When my children were young, in the early 1970’s, we often had this great coffee cake. Now my grown daughter has requested the recipe to make for her own children. I am delighted to find it on this website!
I woke up this morning and the rain was pouring down. I thought I would make the coffee cake and some coffee and enjoy the rain. I had not realized that the coffee cake recipe is no longer on the Bisquick box! I also would like to thank you for posting it on this website. Thank god for the internet!!
Thanks for the recipe….can this be made in a 9X13 pan or do I have to double the recipe??
I layer half of the mix, half of streusel (I have always doubled the streusel-can’t have too much of a good thing), the other half of mix & then the final layer of streusel on top.
I’m VERY happy to have found this recipe at last. I’m now living in France so I actually have to make my bisquick with a copycat recipe and I can’t wait to try this. I was a kid back in the 70’s too and I think we all grew up on this cake!
I saved my recipes from the old box.I love using them.They are great and easy to make.My favorite is the strawberry short cake one. I’m fifty-six and still have them.
ditto! I’ve been searching for this recipe too. I’m so glad I finally found it. Thanks for the posting!!
Just wanted to say thanks for the recipe! My son has been begging fo this for months and I haven’t been able to make it for him… until now! Thank you, thank you!
Thanks so much! My husband was just asking for this last weekend!
I was so thrilled to pull up the recipe for your famous wonderful coffee cake but when I printed it there were 15 pages of comments which was so unnecessary because I know how great this recipe is. Get rid of that junk, it just uses up a lot of ink. Thanks.
Or you can just have your printer print only the first page…and I guess your comment just lengthened the ‘junk’. Thanks for stopping by.
Oct. 7, 2006 It’s a mazing that today after so many years there seems no need to have basics on the box———————cake for emergency company was always easy to whip up. A shame that a true blue Amercian company product seems intent on only fast suppers and trendy meals and has forgottem what got them where they are.
A few years ago they had recipes for various ways to make pancakes and I even tried one that was feather light. Don’t see that any more nor the quick cake they were famous for when someone called and was coming over——what a wonderful smell greeted them when they got there. Perhaps the newer generation needs to be reintroduced to the fast cake that was special then and now!
So, are all of us who crave Bisquick coffee cake baby-boomers?
Thanks much for this recipe. I’m baking it right now and, boy, does this place smell good. Can’t wait ‘til it’s done!
I’m looking for a snickerdoodle cookie recipe that uses nutmeg (and maybe cinnamon, too). You make little balls and roll them in the nutmeg/sugar, then mash them with a fork.
yes it is good, very good
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Thanks so much for posting this! I grew up with it, but being single I don’t bake it too often any more… then when I wanted to, I couldn’t find it, then like you I thought “INTERNET
” There it was! So, thanks!
Yep! That’s the one! Now I can make one of my favorite comfort foods! Thanks bunches!!
I love this cake, and for years the recipe was on the box. I just took for granted that it would always be there. I called everybody I know and no one had the recipe either, so thanks for the posting. My family will be in for a treat this Christmas.
My daughter wanted a apple coffee cake and I told her the best recipe is on the Bisquick box and is very simple, however, it was no longer there. You made our day, thank you. When I was younger we always put apples under the topping.
Thanks for the recipe. I went to the betty crocker site and still couldnt find it. Did find alot of recipe books they want to sell. Making this for my kids this Christmas morning. Merry Christmas!
When I was growing up (in the 1970s and 80s), my family had the original version of this recipe every year for Christmas. I’m amazed in reading all these comments not only to see how many other people enjoyed this coffee cake during their childhoods but also how many others enjoyed this particular treat on Christmas morning! I had always assumed my family were pretty much unique in that!
Then one year I went vegan and we stopped using this particular recipe because the Bisquick mix at that time was not vegan (early 1990s). We tried many other recipies from scratch, some of which were pretty good (though I don’t remember any specifically)—some were vegan to begin with, other recipes we adapted with a few simple substitutions (e.g., soy margarine and soy milk instead of the dairy equivalents; and either corn starch mixed with a little liquid or a product called Energ-G egg replacer instead of the egg). But then last year my parents discovered that Bisquick had changed their ingredients and are now vegan. Last year, Mom got up first on Christmas Day and made the coffee cake so I didn’t realize it wasn’t on the box any more. This year, my partner and I got up first and went to make the coffee cake and realized, Oh No!, the recipe wasn’t on the box! I tried using my cell phone to go on the Bisquick web site to find the recipe and couldn’t seem to find it there (I got 51 returns for the search term “coffee cake” on the Bisquick site, and didn’t care to browse through all 51 of them on my tiny cell phone screen for the one I wanted). I was busy trying to think of another search term to try when Mom walked in and told me she already got the recipe from this site.
Thank you to Buzolich for helping to “rescue” my old childhood memories!
Also, thank you to Dede for suggesting the “healthy” substitutions. I’m not aware of a good VEGAN low-fat substitute for butter/margarine. But I hadn’t known before that Splenda has a brown sugar equivalent—hmm, I’ll have to look for that (though I seem to have trouble enough finding the “white” sugar version). And I’ll have to look for the low-fat version of Bisquick.
For vegan substitutes:
1. This year, we used water instead of milk. But now that Bisquick has gone vegan, I might buy a box myself and make it with soy milk. Silk Nog would give it a Christmas-y flavor. [People allergic to soy could simply use the water—it DOES work well; or you could try rice milk, or they have nut milks etc.]
2. For the butter/margarine, MOST mainstream grocery stores never carry vegan margarine. USUALLY you have to go to a natural food store and buy soy margarine. [I don’t know what vegans with soy allergies would do—I’ve never seen a soy-free vegan margarine, though it seems to me that it should be quite feasible for the manufacturers to make one.] But my parents managed to find a corn oil margarine in a regular grocery store that is vegan (though still with soy). We used that for the streusel topping.
3. This year, we mashed up half a ripened banana to substitute for the egg. I thought it would make the cake taste sort of banana-y, but I couldn’t even tell (possibly that’s just me and my taste buds). If someone WANTS a distinctly banana flavor, I guess you could mash up extra banana or something.
But for myself at home, I would probably use a product called Ener-G egg replacer. Or for people who don’t have that, or don’t have easy access to a natural food store, then corn starch also works. See http://www.vrg.org (Vegetarian Resource Group) for more egg and dairy substitute ideas.
And, yes, a vegan coffee cake is just as wonderful as the original version! My parents and sister are NOT vegan and they still love this cake too!
I always changed this recipe by using 1 cup of sugar instead of the 2 T and add in 1/2 cup pecans.
Thank you so much for having this available. I reciently moved and my recipe books are in storage, I have 6 sons and this is one of their favorite. Thanks again
My dad just asked me to find this recipe right now…lol. Ever since my mom introduced it to us, we’ve loved it and it’s definitely one of our favorite goodies. I really like the cherry coffee cake version, too. They’re both delicious! Snickerdoodles, and Russian Tea Cakes are my two other favorite goodies.
Thanks so much! My 7 brothers and sisters and I would come home from school and make this for an afternoon treat. It was quick and easy, and delicious too. Can’t wait to make it for my girls
! God Bless You.
i made this cake all the time when i was pregnant and then i lost the recipe and then i could never find it on the new boxes. my husband is gonna be so excited when he gets home and smells it baking…....cant wait…going bake right now
I too have been looking for this recipe as it was alway a favorite. Not only do I double (or triple) the streusel topping but I layer it between the dough. Thank you!!
Has anyone ever tried this recipe in a bundt cake pan? How did it turn out?
I was very happy to find this recipe. I enjoyed reading all the comments. If Bisquick could see all the comments they would probably put it back on the box. Thank you.
Thank you so much! I too grew up making this as a kid. I still remember the very first time I made it, I was 10 yrs old. I have tried a few coffee cake recipes lately and none have been exactly what I was looking for. All I could think of was the bisquick coffee cake and could never find it on the new boxes. Can’t wait until morning!! I know what I’m having for breakfast!!
How about “pre” baby boomers???? We love this recipe, too
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Hi, I agree. I have also been looking for this recipe for years. I printed 20 pages to get it. Did not need to print all the comments.
I used to make this several years ago but the new boxes don’t have the recipe on them. Why not bring it back?
Thank You, my mom was looking for this
I have been looking for this reciepe for years, thank you for posting it and many thanks to Google. How about a reciepe for Irish soda Bread.
Like Kathy above, I made this when I was a kid and always relied on the side of the box for the recipe when I made it through the years. I am going to fix it for Easter morning!
I added an apple, a couple sprinkles of cinnamon on the apples, and threw in a handful of raisins. Then on top, I added a couple tablespoons of chopped walnuts and 1/4 stick butter cut into tiny chunks. It tasted more like the coffee cakes I remember as a child. Wonderful although it sure is thick when I spread it in the pan. Maybe due to the milk being cold. And I used the lowfat Bisquick along with Fat-Free (skim) Milk.
Haven’t made this coffee cake in years..thank you for the receipe..