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mini lemon coffee cake

Mini Lemon Coffee Cakes with Crumb Topping

Squeeze the day with this lemon coffee cake…it’s the zest!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword lemon coffee cake, mini coffee cakes, mini lemon coffee cakes with crumb topping
Servings 4 cakes
Author Isis

Ingredients

Crumb topping:

  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 tsp lemon zest
  • 3 TB melted butter

Cake:

  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup greek yogurt
  • 1/2 cup oil
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/4 cup lemon juice
  • 2 TB lemon zest

Icing:

  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 2 TB lemon juice

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 F
  2. Oil and add a parchment round to four, 4-inch cake pans

Crumb topping:

  1. Stir together ingredients and refrigerate until ready to use

Cake:

  1. Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt, set aside
  2. Mix together the greek yogurt, oil, eggs, lemon juice and lemon zest
  3. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir to combine
  4. Evenly distribute the batter between the prepared cake pans
  5. Top them with the crumb topping
  6. Bake for 25-30 minutes, until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean
  7. Cool completely

Icing:

  1. Mix together the powdered sugar and lemon juice
  2. Drizzle over cool cakes
  3. Enjoy!