This simple recipe for a warm and buttery cinnamon sugar snack cake is the perfect sweet and easy baked treat!
Are you happily tired? I AM. Even though it was a different kind of Christmas, we tried hard to keep as many of the beloved traditions going.
We hung our stockings on the new Carolina house mantle with care…
…and even in the middle of a wild Christmas Eve rainstorm, we opened our front door to find this…
Thank you Santa, wherever you are? We know you live somewhere in North Carolina at the moment!
We also cooked and feasted and feasted and cooked until our tummies were full and we were all kinds of ready for a long winter’s nap.
HOWEVER! We still have New Year’s coming up (how excited are we for 2021?), and not quite ready to jump into non-holiday food.
So here comes a recipe for cinnamon sugar snack cake that is not only warm and buttery and cinnamon-y, but is also easy. The best in the middle of the holidays, what day is it again, satisfying kind of recipe!
Here’s how you make cinnamon sugar snack cake!
Preheat your oven to 350 and spray an 8 inch cake pan (I used a springform pan) with cooking spray.
Put 1 ¼ cups of flour, ¾ cup of brown sugar and a teaspoon of cinnamon in a food processor and pulse a few times to combine.
Add 4 tablespoons of butter and pulse until the mixture looks like sand. Scoop out 1/3 cup and set aside.
Transfer the flour mixture to a mixing bowl and add ½ teaspoon each of baking powder and baking soda, ½ cup of buttermilk, a teaspoon of vanilla and one egg and mix it all up until it is nice and combined.
Transfer the batter to your cake pan and smooth out the top with a spatula. Sprinkle on the saved 1/3 cup of the flour mixture.
Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 30 minutes.
Cool, cut into wedges and serve (maybe with a scoop of ice cream on top?)
And then maybe take a nap? Sweet cinnamon dreams, my friends!
other scrumptious snack cakes we love!
Cinnamon Sugar Snack Cake
This simple recipe for a warm and buttery cinnamon sugar snack cake is the perfect sweet and easy baked treat!
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 8 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Vegetarian
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cups flour
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 4 tablespoons butter, diced
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 and spray an 8 inch cake pan (I used a springform) with cooking spray.
- Put the flour, sugar and cinnamon in a food processor and pulse a few times to combine. Add the butter again and pulse until the mixture looks like sand. Scoop out 1/3 cup and set aside.
- Transfer the flour mixture to a mixing bowl and add the baking powder, baking soda, buttermilk, vanilla and egg and mix until combined.
- Transfer the batter to your cake pan and smooth out the top with a spatula. Sprinkle on the saved 1/3 cup of the flour mixture.
- Bake until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 30 minutes. Cool, cut into wedges and serve (maybe with a scoop of ice cream on top?)
Notes
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Theresa Murphy says
This lovely little cake reminds me of a coffee cake my grandmother made all the time. I believe her used Bisquick and had a thick layer of brown sugar streusel on top that cracked and crumbled on the plate when you put a fork to it. Food memories are some of the best! Thanks for bringing that memory back to me. Definitely will be making this soon to start some new memories for my family.
Ah Bisquick, the gift that keeps on giving! I recently ran out and Wegmans didn’t have any, and I had a mild panic attack – luckily Harris Teeter came through for me! :)