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This Pumpkin Coffee Cake will get you in the mood for pumpkin season! Filled with pumpkin flavor, topped with a cinnamon pecan streusel, this is Fall in a bite. Plus – it’s made SKINNY using yogurt in place of oil!
Yep. I’m going there. I’m starting pumpkin. In August.
You’re welcome.
On Friday, I asked on Facebook what sort of recipe I should post today: Pumpkin or Apple. Pumpkin won by a landslide – but don’t fret apple lovers. The apple recipe is coming later this week!
Remember the movie Field of Dreams?
{One of the best movies ever. Plus, James Earl Jones: I want his voice for my ringtone.}
If you build it, he will come.
If I make Pumpkin Coffee Cake…Fall will come. Summer can kind of suck it. It’s been in the 90s or higher since the beginning of May and I know, from past experience, we will not have relief for a very long time.
I want cooler weather. Not cold, mind you. Cooler. $200 PG&E bill weather would be awesome.
So…if I make Pumpkin Coffee Cake…Fall will come. Eventually. In the meantime, I can pretend it’s fall while I have coffee and coffee cake flavored like my favorite season.
You may be thinking…hmmmm. This coffee cake looks familiar. It might, because it’s a re-do. I posted a version of this a looooong time ago.
Maybe it’s better you don’t remember. It tasted good back then but man-I thought those photos were GOOD. Prime photos, right there.
#whatadifference2yearsmakes
How do you make a skinny pumpkin coffee cake?
Instead of posting that same recipe, I decided to make it SKINNY! I reduced the butter in the topping and I subbed greek yogurt for vegetable oil.
Let’s talk about greek yogurt vs. oil. In a perfect world where calories are free and I am a size 2, I’d use oil. Until someone invents a teletransporter to take me to that place, I’ll use greek yogurt.
I am really loving using yogurt in place of oil, but it does change the texture of the cake. It’s a little chewier and has less crumb. I like that just fine, especially because I’m not hitting myself over the head with my fat pants as I eat my second slice.
If you don’t have yogurt on hand, or prefer to use oil, you can substitute vegetable oil. I’ve even mixed yogurt and oil in recipes where I want to…mix it up. Get ambitious in the kitchen. If there’s one thing I want to teach you from reading this blog besides “pie is perfect” and “sugar is life” it would be to try new things in the kitchen. Try a substitution…you never know what will work.
Kind of like I’m trying to rain dance Fall into Sacramento.
Skinny Pumpkin Coffee Cake is an easy way to bake with greek yogurt and make your fall breakfast a little healthier – including streusel!
Chances are, you’ll have more luck than me!
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Pumpkin Coffee Cake
Ingredients
For the Cake
- 2 cups flour divided
- ¾ cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
- 3/4 cup pure pumpkin puree
- ¼ cup non-fat vanilla or plain greek yogurt or you can sub vegetable oil, see note
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ cup milk
For the Streusel
- 2 tablespoons butter melted
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 tablespoon cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans optional (or use walnuts)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°. Line a 9x9” pan with foil and spray with cooking spray.
- Whisk in pumpkin, greek yogurt, vanilla and milk in a large bowl until no lumps remain. Whisk in sugar, then baking powder, salt, and pumpkin pie spice. Stir in flour with a spatula or wooden spoon. Batter will be thick. Pour into prepared pan.
- In a small bowl, stir butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and 2 tablespoons of flour with a fork. Stir in pecans. Spread on top of pumpkin cake layer.
- Bake about 20 minutes until a toothpick inserted 2” from the side of the pan comes out clean. Cool until you can’t stand it anymore, then cut into squares and serve. It can take up to 30 minutes to bake, depending on your oven. Take it out as soon as a toothpick comes out clean along the edges. Remember, the yogurt will change the texture of the cake. It will be chewier.
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Last Updated on February 2, 2023
It is yucky and rainy today…the perfect day to make this yummy looking coffee cake. It may still be 87 out, but that feels like fall in Florida. 🙂
Mmm this looks so good! I’ve been looking for new pumpkin recipes to try this fall, I’ll have to add this one to my list! Your coffee cake looks delicious!
Thanks Maria!
I am SO ready for Fall too! It’s my favorite season, and it can just hurry up and be here already!! This coffee cake looks like a dream….a fabulous dream!!
I’m so, so ready for all the pumpkin treats. This looks delicious!
Me too. I want to post, like, 1,000 more. NOW!
I am soo ready for pumpkin season now!! YUM!
Baseball reference = best thing ever! (It’s kind of my favorite sport…) But I’m with you on this weather thing. Since when is it okay to be 100° when school is about to start?? Looks like a fabulous coffee cake — and I’ll gladly eat 2 slices if it’ll lower these crazy temperatures!
Both pumpkin and coffee cake remind me that fall is coming! So excited, definitely going to give this a try!
Enjoy!! Thanks Jamie!
I am SO ready for the Fall! This coffee cake looks delish Dorothy!
Thanks Trish!
This pumpkin coffee cake has me so excited for fall!
This looks awesome, Dorothy!! And gorgeous photos 🙂
Thanks Lisa!
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