Coffee cake is an evolution through various continents, and time lines.  In more modern times there was no coffee in the coffee cake recipe, but it wasn’t always so. They are often thought of as a German pastry, but actually prior to the Germans affiliation with the coffee cake recipe, the coffee cake was  closer to a spin off of the French’s Gallette’s—a French Christmas cake— and their sweet roll.  Next, the Danish put their touch to it and their recipe included coffee. Today, the name coffee cake relates to eating the cake with a drink of coffee.

The coffee cake became Americanized in the late 1800’s, and with that emerged a variety of coffee cakes because of the many ethnicities.  You do have a choice when it comes to coffee cake.  It just depends on your particular flavor.  You can choose from sponge or pound, fruit or fruitless, nuts or no nuts.  In addition to being one of Americas all time breakfast sweets, you can celebrate the coffee cake on the annual coffee cake day—April 7th.

There may not be coffee in coffee cakes any longer, but when you try to enjoy it without a cup of coffee or tea; you may find that the spunk is missing.  In addition, you may find that for some unknown reason, coffee cake looses its taste appeal in the middle of the day.  I suppose its okay with an afternoon cup of coffee or tea.  It could be my imagination, as well as maybe you’ll have a different experience but I would stick to eating it at breakfast time— and definitely not without coffee or tea.