Each bite of pumpkin coffee cake is moist and flavorful thanks to power ingredients like pumpkin puree, pure maple syrup, and cozy spices. Piled high with a crumb topping and drizzled with a simple glaze, this is the fall breakfast of your dreams.

Perfectly acceptable for breakfast, snack, or dessert, today’s pumpkin coffee cake is a must make this season. Heavy on the crumb topping, this is a fall version of my New York-style crumb cake and tastes just like my pumpkin crumb cake muffins but in cake form. It’s bursting with pumpkin flavor and will have you racing to the kitchen table any morning of the week!

This Pumpkin Coffee Cake Is:

Simple and quick to prepare

Ultra soft and moist

Incredibly pumpkin-y

A perfect fall breakfast indulgence

Wonderfully spiced with cozy fall flavors

Piled high with crumb topping

Garnished with a sweet vanilla icing

3 Parts to Pumpkin Coffee Cake

Coffee Cake: There’s incredible flavor in each soft, moist bite of the pumpkin cake layer. Crumb Topping: Top today’s coffee cake with a thick layer of cinnamon-spiced crumbs. Vanilla Icing: It’s not coffee cake without a drizzle of icing!

Coffee Cake

Made with pantry basics, this cake comes together in minutes without a mixer. Ingredients like oil, maple syrup, brown sugar, and pumpkin puree make this the moistest coffee cake I’ve ever tasted. Pumpkin takes the place of egg and helps bind everything together, so this is an entirely egg free recipe. (This cake is vegan-friendly as well– use dairy free milk in the cake and dairy free butter in the crumb topping.) Make sure you’re using real pumpkin puree (I like canned puree), not pumpkin pie filling. We’ll use a little brown sugar and maple syrup to sweeten– not too much of either though. The crumb topping and glaze sweeten the cake, so there is no need for more sugar in the cake itself. You’ll love how the sweet maple flavor pairs with real pumpkin and warm spices!

Be prepared, this is a super, super thick batter. Why? We’re using lots of heavy, wet ingredients to yield an incredibly moist and soft cake.

Crumb Topping

We can all agree that the crumbs are the best part of any coffee cake, so we’re going heavy on the crumb topping today. (For more recipes loaded with crumbs, try apple crumb cake, zucchini crumb cake, apple crumb muffins, and super crumb coffee cake.) Today’s crumb topping is cinnamon-spiced– you’ll need flour, brown sugar, salt, cinnamon, and cold butter. Cut the cold butter in with a fork or pastry cutter until it begins to clump together and form crumbs. Pour that glorious crumb streusel on top of the batter and gently press it down into the cake before baking. So easy!

Vanilla Icing

While the cake bakes, make the icing. For even more pumpkin flavor, I like to use pumpkin spice coffee creamer instead of milk in the icing. If you have any leftover pumpkin puree, make homemade pumpkin coffee creamer to use here. Milk works just as well, though. Mix the coffee creamer or milk with a little confectioners’ sugar and vanilla extract, then pour the glaze on top of the warm coffee cake. Instead of vanilla icing, try a drizzle of salted caramel or dollop of homemade whipped cream.

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