Breakfast is calling. It’s wondering why cookie chips took so long to get into coffee cake.
Cinnamon is one of those dark horses. I forget about it for weeks, sometimes months, at a time. And then without warning, I eat a dessert with cinnamon, and wham! I can’t stop.
When I tried Hannah Max cinnamon sugar cookie chips for the first time to decide how to bake with them, I had to slap my own hand to stop it from reaching back into the bag. The cinnamon sugar flavor is more addictive than I expected. It’s always fun when life runs contrary to expectation in a good way!
That’s how I got married, actually. When I started dating Kenny, I didn’t really expect it to last for very long. See, he was super cute and a lot of fun, but I’d known him since college when he was a bit rough around the edges and perpetually playing ping-pong. It’s pretty much all he ever did.
So imagine my surprise when on our first date, we actually had a serious conversation. And he was kinder than I’d ever realized, ready to start the next stage of his life with marriage and kids and all that. In other words, he had grown up. I hadn’t expected that at all. In my mind, he was still playing ping-pong with stale rolls from the dining hall because he couldn’t find the ball.
Pleasant surprises are the best kind. They sneak up on you and make you wonder if you really do know as much as you think you know.
Cinnamon desserts are in that place for me. I bake them with almost an internal shrug, thinking that somebody will really like it, but not me. After I’ve managed to mainline several helpings of whatever it is, I’ll finally admit that I really love cinnamon more than I expected to.
This cake is ridiculously good. It’s almost a blondie because of a higher brown sugar content to a lower flour ratio. The inclusion of eggs and baking powder makes it rise to cake-like proportions, however, and the cinnamon sugar topping is made of cookie chips.
I cannot say enough about this topping. Some of it floats on the top while the rest of it sinks into the batter at various points, giving the cake a through-and-through cookie chip quotient. With the (sorry if you hate this word) moist cake base balancing the crunchy cookie chips, it’s hard to imagine breakfast getting any better.
If you don’t think much about cinnamon, you’ll have to rethink your internal musings. Cinnamon sugar cookie chips are too addictive to ignore, and put into this cake, they take on a whole new amazing form. Maybe cookie chips on coffee cake isn’t what you’d expect, but it’s a glorious surprise. And those are the best kind!
A product for this post was provided by Hannah Max Cookie Chips. All opinions are my own.
Cinnamon Sugar Cookie Chips Coffee Cake
Ingredients
Cake
1 cup sugar
1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup canola oil
4 eggs
1 cup flour
Crumb Topping
2 teaspoons cinnamon
4 tablespoons cold butter, cut into small pieces
1 bag Hannah Max cinnamon sugar cookie chips, crumbled into small pieces
1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350. Coat a 9 x 13-inch pan with cooking spray. Set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine all the cake ingredients and mix until smooth.
- Pour into the prepared pan and bake for 20 minutes.
- While the cake is baking, make the crumb topping. In a bowl, combine the topping ingredients and use your fingers to make crumbs.
- Spread the crumb mixture evenly over the cake and bake for 35 additional minutes.
- Cool and cut into squares.
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This cake sounds amazing and that story of your first date is super cute 🙂
Medha @ Whisk & Shout recently posted…Roasted Tomato and Red Pepper Linguine with Fresh Basil
Thanks, Medha! 🙂 I like life’s little surprises. Or big ones!
Aww what a sweet story of you and your husband 🙂
These coffee cakes look sooo delicious! I’m a huge fan of cinnamon stuff, so I know I’d love this too!
Jasline (Foodie Baker) recently posted…Minty Ice Lemon Tea
It’s super cinnamony, Jasline! I know you’d go for it!
Wow! What a cute first date story of you and your husband. This cake sound fantastically YUM!
Anu-My Ginger Garlic Kitchen recently posted…Amritsari Chole
Thanks, Anu! I was shocked when he was…datable. 🙂
Awwh, what a cute story.
I am exactly the same with cinnamon. We only usually eat it at Christmas, but I think I need to make it a part of my every day life, not just at Christmas time.
Dannii @ Hungry Healthy Happy recently posted…Comment on Halloumi Vegetable Skewers by Dannii
It’s supposed to have all these health benefits too, Dannii!
Pleasant surprises are definitely the best! Glad you were reunited with your now-husband and cinnamon. It’s one of my favorite spices to bake with! This cake looks so good, Mir! I can’t get over how soft and moist this looks. I think I would devour this whole cake and not share with my husband!
Gayle @ Pumpkin ‘N Spice recently posted…Root Beer Float Popsicles
Husbands eat all the food way too fast. Do NOT share, Gayle! 🙂
Mir, yes, pleasant surprises are the best!! I loved reading about you and Kenny. . tell us more! 🙂 and you are so right about cinnamon!! I don’t know why but I mainly associate using cinnamon with fall. . but yeah, it’s definitely a spice that we need to use all year round! I mean, cinnamon rolls, cinnamon cookies. . I LOVE this coffee cake!
Alice @ Hip Foodie Mom recently posted…Strawberry Coconut and Peanut Butter Popsicles
Ha! I have more, but I’ll have to save something for those posts when I have writer’s block, Alice! 🙂 I associate cinnamon with fall too, but then it actually goes great with summer fruit too. Thanks!
Aww that’s such a sweet story about meeting your husband. Oh, and of course, the cake looks great!!
Sues recently posted…Rainbow Sherbet Cupcakes
Thanks, Sues! I like cakes and husbands!
That’s a great story about Kenny and ping-pong! Sometimes surprises are the best. I’ve never heard of these cinnamon sugar cookie chips, but they sound delicious in this yummy coffee cake!
Rachelle @ Beer Girl Cooks recently posted…Peanut Butter Cookie Milkshake
He still loves ping-pong, Rachelle, but not QUITE as much. The cookie chips are sold everywhere. They’re addictive. You must try!
Love your story Mir! And I also love cinnamon! This coffee cake sound and look delicious!
mira recently posted…Mini Peppers With Whipped Feta Recipe
Thanks, Mira! I am SO into coffee cake in the morning!
Aw, I love pleasant surprises too and I enjoyed reading about your first date! So sweet! This recipe sounds just perfect!
Sam @ SugarSpunRun recently posted…Peach Crumble Pie
Thanks, Sam! I have to pretend the cake is not sitting behind me right now. It’s dangerous.
What a beautiful story Mir! I really loved reading about it, it sounds so sweet! :). The cake is beautiful too, cinnamon is one of my favourite ingredients to bake with. I will have to try this!
Harriet Emily recently posted…POTS AU CHOCOLAT
Thanks, Harriet Emily! It’s too addictive. I am very upset with myself for making it. 🙂
cinnamon and sugar is such an amazing combo! this cake looks awesome and the crumb topping OMGEEE I bet this was so yummy!
Michele @ Two Raspberries recently posted…Healthy Mixed Veggie Quinoa
Too yummy, Michele. I’ll have to remember that next time I make a similar flavor combo!
aww the first date sounds so cute! <3 love this cake, that topping is calling my name!!!!!!!!
Manali @ CookWithManali recently posted…Tropical Punch Popsicles
Thanks, Manali! It was cute. I don’t think we’re that cute anymore. Just older. 🙂
Well this is absolute perfection! I want this now!
Jocelyn (Grandbaby cakes) recently posted…Strawberry Crumble Coffee Cake
Can you please come get it out of my house, Jocelyn? I’m trying to resist…
Oh my gosh. This coffee cake is blowing my mind!
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Yay! Then I feel like I did good work today, Dorothy!
The story about you and your husband is so sweet. This cake looks wonderful and so moist. I love a good cinnamon breakfast cake in the morning. 🙂
Erin @ Miss Scrambled Egg recently posted…Roasted Red Pepper Hummus Dip
Me too, Erin! Thanks!
What a sweet story of your first date! Pleasant surprises are definitely the best! I love cinnamon treats so much and I’m loving that cookie chip crumble on top of this cake! I would find it so hard to resist this cake if it was in my house!
Jocelyn @BruCrew Life recently posted…Peanut Butter Fudge Poke Cake
Yep, which is why I have to stop. Staring. At. It. 🙂 Thanks, Jocelyn!
I love your analogy about your husband being a pleasant surprise- the ping pong story is super cute!!! He is lucky to have you because this dessert looks stellar! Lots of brown sugar, cinnamon and a crumb topping is ALWAYS delicious and a winner in my book! Cheers and thanks for sharing♡
Thanks, Cheyanne! The man does love his ping-pong. We even have a table downstairs!
Guys certainly do mature (to whatever extent they do mature) at a different rate than women. How wonderful that you rediscovered your husband once he had “grown-up” post-college. 🙂 Your story made me hopeful and curious to see who my recent college graduate son (who I can totally see playing ping pong with a stale roll) will evolve into. 🙂 Cinnamon and vanilla are my favorite baking flavors, so I know I will enjoy this coffee cake! I know there are people that hate the word moist, but what word are we supposed to use to describe a cake that is….moist?
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I bet he will be very different in a few years, Wendy! And I’m with you on that word. How else to describe good cake?