Warm up your winter mornings with this tropical inspired Pineapple Coffee Cake with Raspberry Glaze. Moist cake full of pineapple, topped with crunchy cinnamon sugar streusal. A tart fresh raspberry glaze gives it a burst of berry flavor.
I don’t want to jinx things, but Oliver my four year old has been quite well behaved lately. It’s almost suspicious. I’m guessing it has something to do with the “rainbow” chart at his preschool. If you make good decisions (not biting or scratching. What are they, cats?) your name will get moved to the color blue or purple. You don’t want red. Red is bad. If you stay in the “good zone”, at the end of the week you get a treat. Kids have it so good don’t they? At what other time in your life do you get rewarded for not biting someone or using potty words. And they get treats! Treats people. For being good little humans.
Well I know what treat I would pick at the end of the week. This Pineapple Coffee Cake! It’s super moist because of the bits of crushed pineapple throughout and has the perfect amount of crumb. Its the same batter I used in my Pineapple Dole Whip Cupcakes. The crunchy cinnamon sugar topping is a perfect contrast to the moist cake, and the raspberry glaze gives it the perfect hint of tart berry flavor. I’ve come to the conclusion that cinnamon constitutes it as a breakfast food. So dieters, your’e semi safe. I don’t know about you, but I wish it was morning already!
- 2½ cups flour
- 1½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 3 eggs
- 1¾ cups sugar
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¾ cup vanilla greek yogurt
- 1½ cups canned crushed pineapple (drained)
- Topping
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup light brown sugar (packed)
- 1/2 cup butter (softened)
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- Raspberry Glaze
- 1/2 cup vanilla frosting
- 1-2 tbs raspberry preserves
- 1-2 tbs milk
- Set oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and line a 9×13 baking dish with parchment paper.
- In a medium bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- Using an electric mixer with the paddle attachment beat the eggs and sugar on medium speed until light and smooth.
- On low, mix in the vanilla and oil.
- Next add in yogurt and crushed pineapple until fully incorporated.
- Add flour mixture and mix until smooth.
- Pour batter into prepared dish.
- In a medium bowl mix together the topping ingredients. It should be the consistency of wet sand.
- Sprinkle topping over batter.
- Bake for 35-45 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
Other treats I would totally eat for breakfast:
White Chocolate Pineapple Coconut Cookie Bars
White Chocolate Raspberry Mousse Cupcakes
Blueberry Cornbread Cupcakes with Lemon Buttercream Frosting
This looks delicious! I love pineapple and the photos look so tasty. I love the rainbow chart to encourage those good little humans!
Thank you!
What a beautiful site you have here and this coffee cake would be perfect on the weekend when my friends or mom are over!
MB
Thanks Marybeth 🙂
This sounds delicious!! I never use pineapple in baking, but it sounds incredible in this coffee cake, and I love that raspberry glaze as well. Beautiful!
Thank you Rachel!
I love this flavor combo, and that cake looks so moist and perfect!
Thank you Dorothy!
This is so pretty! I need these bright flavors to get me out of my winter funk! 🙂
Thanks Medha! I wanted the pink to really pop 🙂
THIS is exactly what my January mornings have been needing–how did you know? 🙂 This sounds so good and so refreshing, Kathleen!
Yes! Yay for sugar highs first thing in the morning!
So sweet an yummy! Love it!
Thank you so much Tori!
Looking forward to trying this. One question about the raspberry glaze, do I just blend the ingredients together and drizzle on cake? The link I saved doesn’t have instructions for the glaze.
Hey Denise!
That’s exactly what I did. I just blended everything with a whisk. Then you can eyeball how thin you want it. Or add more preserves if you want the raspberry flavor to be deeper. If it gets too thin you can always add powdered sugar. Let me know if that helps!