Coffeecakes, like this Best Amish Strawberry Coffeecake, are a breakfast staple in Amish homes. When I told my youngest daughter that we would be baking a coffeecake, she asked “is there coffee in it?” No, I had to explain to her, there is no coffee in it, although I also told that I have seen some coffeecake recipes that have coffee in it. Anyway,I explained to her that people just like drinking a cup of coffee with a slice of cake like this. Although, in my case it might be called “Coke Cake" because I enjoy sipping a can of Coke in the morning with a slice of this. But I’m not quite sure “Coke cake “has the same ring to it
This coffee cake, true to Amish tradition, was just so so easy to make.
I will say that the original recipe called for “half “cup of flour. I don't know about you, but when you follow recipes you so badly want to give the author the benefit of the doubt. But I’ve not trusted my instincts a few times lately when I’ve seen recipes and not corrected an obviously mistake, and then that just passes on the mistake to you. I just thought a half cup of flour was an awfully small amountl, I think a cup and a half is what was needed. So I took my chances and I changed it to a cup and a half of flour, and this really turned out very well. I think I made the right call because, well, even with a 1 ½ cups of flour, it is not a huge cake and I didn't tweak the other ingredients, so, yeah, this is a good, good, good recipe. The cake just tastes so fluffy, yet firm and full of fruit! (while I am not sure any fruit would work for this recipe because of the baking, I do think blueberries would do well)
Use fresh strawberries and eggs (or egg).
Get good kitchen help!
Use "room temperature" butter...that kind of threw me, I mean, rooms can be many different temperatures, but...well, I heated mine in the microwave about 5 seconds to get to "room temp."
Beatrice enjoyed putting the strawberries on top.
Slice up a good cup and a half or even two cups of strawberries. I wouldn't do more than two cups.
We used about 1 ½ of berries.
The instructions call for using a “pastry blender “for the topping… I don’t know what that was, didn’t have one, I didn’t have time to use it if I did, so we just threw together the butter, flour, and sugar and use the fork to mash it all together, eventually I thought a whisk might do better and I use the whisk to sort of mash it up and stir it up, and I think it really turned out just fine.
This is the pie after it comes out of the oven. So good and loaded with fruit!
🍓 Best Amish Strawberry Coffeecake Ingredients
- ½ cup milk
- 1 ½ cups sliced fresh strawberries
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons room temp. butter
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 egg
- ½ teaspoon salt
Topping:
- ¼ cup cold butter
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup sugar
📋 Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, add the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt; stir to mix.
- In a second bowl, add the egg, milk, and butter; stir to mix; add to dry ingredients and stir just until moistened.
- Pour mixture into a greased 8-inch square baking dish.
- Place strawberries evenly over the top of batter.
- To make the topping: Combine the flour and sugar in a bowl.
- With a pastry blender, cut in the butter until consistency of coarse crumbs.
- Sprinkle mixture evenly over the strawberries.
- Bake at 375° for 30-35 minutes or until wooden pick comes out clean
🍓 More Amish Strawberry Recipes
Strawberry Bread - Wow!
Strawberry Crisp - So good!
Strawberry Pie - Amazing!
🖨️ Full Recipe
Best Amish Strawberry Coffeecake
Ingredients
- ½ cup milk
- 1 ½ cups sliced fresh strawberries
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons butter room temp.
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 egg
- ½ teaspoon salt
Topping:
- ¼ cup cold butter
- 1 cup cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup sugar
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, add the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt; stir to mix.
- In a second bowl, add the egg, milk, and butter; stir to mix; add to dry ingredients and stir just until moistened.
- Pour mixture into a greased 8-inch square baking dish.
- Place strawberries evenly over the top of batter.
Topping
- Combine the flour and sugar in a bowl.
- With a pastry blender, cut in the butter until consistency of coarse crumbs.
- Sprinkle mixture evenly over the strawberries.
- Bake at 375° for 30-35 minutes or until wooden pick comes out clean
Diana
I love the new recipe format, I always had to copy and paste so that I could print them off in the past.
Kevin
Great, Diana, glad you like it!!!
Terri C
This sounds wonderful! Thanks for adding a pin it button!
Terri C
Well I thought I saw a pin it button, but I don't now 🙁
Kevin
Terri, weird...I see a "pin it" button by it...try refreshing your page?
Carol Morris
Love the print button!! Also love the recipes. Some have been great, some either I messed up or they weren't so great. Either way, Thanks.
Buffy
Oh My!! I made this over the weekend and shared with a friend and just pigged out on the rest all by myself. I did add just about a half teaspoon of almond extract. I just cannot tell you how delicious and strawberrylicious this was.
Mari Orton
Kevin.. On Aug 5th I asked you if the American cheese in the frolic casserole was Velveeta or the American we put on sandwiches and still do not have an answer. If you do not answer right back as you have done with Buffy, Carol and Terri will there be no answer? If your answer does not post on today comments where could I look for it?
Kevin
Mari - In answer to your question about the cheese, it would be Velveeta...your answer to the other isn't as simple...I try to check and respond to comments daily, but often I don't do it...I am trying to get better/faster about responding...let me know if you got this answer! - Kevin
Suzette Carlin
This sounds so scrumptious Kevin, unfortunately every time I try to print a recipe, I get a blank page with nothing on it to print just a gray print page. Any ideas as to why?
Kevin
Suzette, let me look into this...I feel like I've had problems with the print feature...it may, unfortunately, be a week or so before I figure it out
Debbie McCormick
Would this be good to use in bake sale
Kevin
Agreed!
lindatollefson
loveit recipe iam going put both kind sweetner in teir iam diabetic thank you for the recipe igoig make pumpkin pudding for thanksgiving
Carol BASALLA
how is the prep time over 3 hours
Kevin Williams
Thanks, Carol, that was a typo, I went in and correct it, takes about 10 mins of prep!
Lorin Black
A pastry blender is a tool for cutting fat into flour in all those recipes that tell you to work the butter in until it resembles crumbs. They are usually a sort of stirrup-shaped tool with a handle across the top and several parallel curved, dull blades on the bottom that you move up and down or rock back and forth to chop the fat into smaller and smaller pieces and coat it with flour. If you do a lot of pastry or biscuit making it's a handy time-saver, but forks or butter knives work for most people.
Kevin Williams
Thanks, Lorin, for that explanation, yeah, I think I'll still with forks and butter knives, I don't think I'd user a pastry blender than much!