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Make this Easy Apple Fritter Coffee Cake for breakfast or brunch this fall! It’s an easy recipe that tastes just like an apple fritter complete with glaze!

Apple Fritter Coffee Cake - this EASY coffee cake recipe tastes JUST like an apple fritter, complete with the glaze!

Hey y’all, happy Friday. You get a BONUS post this week, aren’t I nice?

(I also want you guys to eat as much has I do, because then I’ll feel better about myself.)

Are you looking for a perfect EASY weekend recipe? This is it, which is why I had to post it today. Run to the store after work and grab what you need to make this Apple Fritter Coffee Cake for the kids before soccer tomorrow. Or it would be great for Sunday brunch!

I was never an apple fritter fan as a kid, but my mom loved them. Recently I was told about a place near me that serves the BEST apple fritters so of course we had to try them, and I immediately fell in love. How did I not love the deep fried sweet apple-y goodness until now? All those apple fritter loving years, wasted.

Easy Apple Fritter Coffee Cake Recipe

As much as I’d love to eat apple fritters every day, I just can’t. For one, the doughnut shop is about 20 minutes away and, well, there’s the whole thing about deep frying stuff being bad for you and all. But this Apple Fritter Coffee Cake? It’s just as good and so not as bad.

The cake is easy – it starts with my favorite mix, Krusteaz. They make a fat-free Apple Cinnamon Muffin Mix that is really good (it even comes with real apples in a pouch). I decided to turn it into an easy coffee cake by baking the muffins in a pie plate and adding that telltale apple fritter glaze.

Jordan and I could have eaten several slices of this – thank goodness we shared it with our neighbors. But now I kind of regret it…because I want a slice right now.

Apple Fritter Coffee Cake - this EASY coffee cake recipe tastes JUST like an apple fritter, complete with the glaze!

This is a fall must-make. You can find the Krusteaz mix at most any grocery store. You can bet I’ll also be making this with the blueberry muffin mix!!

Blueberry fritters. OMG.

apple fritter coffee cake in a white pan with glaze on top.

Easy Apple Fritter Coffee Cake

5 from 1 vote
Make this Easy Apple Fritter Coffee Cake for breakfast or brunch this fall! It's an easy recipe that tastes just like an apple fritter complete with glaze!
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Yield 8 servings
Serving Size 1 slice

Ingredients
 

Cake:

  • 1 box Cinnamon Streusel Muffin Mix (see note)
  • cup (158ml) apple cider
  • cup (79ml) vegetable oil
  • 2 large eggs

Glaze:

  • 1 cup (113g) powdered sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 tablespoon (15ml) apple cider
  • 2-3 tablespoons (30-45ml) heavy whipping cream or milk

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray a 9-10” pie plate or a 9x9” baking pan with nonstick cooking spray.
  • Separate mix from crumble packet. Stir mix, apple cider, oil, and eggs in a large bowl.
  • Spread batter in prepared pan and top with crumble packet.
  • Bake cake for 30-40 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean in the center of the cake.
  • As soon as you remove the cake from the oven, make the glaze by whisking the powdered sugar, vanilla, apple cider and 1 tablespoon heavy whipping cream in a small bowl until smooth, adding more cream as needed for drizzle consistency. The glaze will be thick. Poke several small holes in the top of the cake using a toothpick, then evenly spread the glaze all over the top of the cake. Let the cake cool. As it cools the glaze will harden.
  • Serve slightly warm or room temperature. Store covered at room temperature for up to 2 days.

Recipe Notes

I used Betty Crocker Cinnamon Streusel Muffin Mix for this. Krusteaz also makes a cinnamon streusel cake mix you can substitute, as do other brands. If you substitute another brand, mix the recipe as directed on the package (using the ingredients called for) but substitute apple cider for water. Bake in pan as directed here on this recipe.

Recipe Nutrition

Serving: 1slice | Calories: 80kcal | Carbohydrates: 15g | Fat: 2g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 7mg | Sodium: 5mg | Sugar: 14g | Vitamin A: 85IU | Calcium: 9mg
Nutritional information not guaranteed to be accurate
Course Breakfast
Cuisine American

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This post has been sponsored by Krusteaz. All opinions are 100% my own.

Last Updated on February 2, 2023



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  1. Apple fritters are amazing, and I’d love to make this. Did you update this to be from scratch? I’d love to see that recipe. I’ve also been meaning to make the apple fritter bread. Thanks!

  2. This apple fritter coffee cake looks so good, I definitely want a slice right now!  Apple fritters sound even better as a coffee cake then they do as doughnuts!