The Best Fresh Milled Coffee Cake

If you are looking for a sweet fresh milled coffee cake with a soft crumb and a buttery, brown sugar crust that pairs perfectly with a cup of coffee? You’ve come to the right place!

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

You will love this fresh milled coffee cake because the cake is soft and fluffy with a buttery cinnamon crust! The cake is made with 100% fresh milled flour, giving you the nutritional benefits of whole grain.

Why This Recipe Works

Unlike other fresh milled recipes, this cake is not dry, dense, or crumbly. Instead, the result is a classic bakery-style coffee cake that will have you coming back for more!

The fresh milled flour provides a better flavor and a more nutrient dense coffee cake without sacrificing the texture.

Benefits of Fresh Milled Flour

1. Vitamins and minerals – Fresh milled flour still contains the bran and germ of the wheat berries that are generally sifted out to make bagged, white flour. Because the bran and germ are still present in the fresh flour, the flour itself still contains all of the vitamins and minerals our bodies can gather from wheat.
2. Fiber – The bran and germ also act as a great source of fiber. It helps to keep the intestines moving and clear so that food can be digested easily.
3. Great taste – Freshly milled flour provides a richer and hardier taste to baked goods than bagged white flour. Trust me! Once you try baking with freshly milled grains, you won’t want to go back!

Tips Before You Start

• Weigh your grain BEFORE milling rather than after! Weighing flour after its milled is more messy and difficult.
• All purpose flour makes a better crumbly topping. You can use fresh milled flour, but the texture is more gritty.
• Use a soft wheat berry for a fluffy and soft cake.
• Swap the fresh milled flour with 2 cups of all purpose flour in the cake if you don’t mill.

Ingredients

1. Soft white wheat berries – Soft white wheat berries are the best for baked goods such as coffee cake. I buy my wheat berries in 25 lb bags from Azure Standard. The quality is phenomenal and you can’t beat the price!
2. Organic brown sugar – The best place to buy organic brown sugar is at Costco!
3. Greek yogurt – The Greek yogurt makes this cake so moist and delicious.

How to Make the Freshly Milled Coffee Cake

• Preheat the oven to 350 F and grease a 8×10 pan with butter. Use a plastic bag over your hand to spread the butter around the pan.

• Weigh the grain berries and mill the flour.
• In a bowl, combine the fresh-milled flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and sugar. Mix the dry ingredients together.
• Add the butter, eggs, vanilla, and Greek yogurt. Mix until the batter is smooth and well-combined.

• Pour the batter into the greased 9×13 pan and spread the batter out evenly.
• In a separate bowl, combine all-purpose flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt for the topping.
• Grate cold butter and mix it into the dry ingredients with a fork until the mixture is crumbly.

• Spread the topping onto the top of the batter until it is spread out evenly.

• Bake the cake at 350 F for 55 minutes.
• Allow the cake to cool completely before cutting it.

What to Serve with Coffee Cake

• Potato and Egg Quiche
• Kefir Smoothie
• Hashbrowns
• Scrambled Eggs
• Bacon or Sausage

Storage

• Store this cake in an airtight container at room temperature.
• To freeze it, put it in an airtight container and freeze for up to 3 months. Allow the cake to defrost at room temperature before warming it up to avoid dryness.

FAQ

Can I swap out Greek yogurt for sour cream? Yes, you could substitute sour cream in the batter. It will also keep the batter moist when baking.

Can I freeze this cake? Yes, the cake can be frozen, but first, allow it to cool completely, store in an airtight container, and defrost at room temperature before reheating.

Could I put half of the topping in the middle of the cake? Yes, you could spoon half of the batter into your pan, spread a layer of the cinnamon topping, add the rest of the batter and topping.

Why do you use all purpose flour in the topping? I found that when making a crumbly topping, all purpose flour creates the best texture. While you can use fresh milled flour, the texture is a bit more gritty.

More Fresh Milled Breakfasts

This warm, buttery fresh milled coffee cake is the perfect sweet addition to a cup of coffee! Try this recipe once, and you will be hooked!