I hope everyone's Christmas day was magical. I scored big time with two pounds of See's Chocolate which might actually weigh one pound by now, and a refill on my Nespresso Coffee capsules. So the timing couldn't have been better to make some lemon coffee cake!
I always try to follow this coffee cake recipe as a base. It's the best I've ever tasted, seriously I'm a horrible liar and I've switched it up so many times with different ingredients and they've all tasted top dollar. This time, I used lemon curd and white chocolate chips and the result surprised me in a good way.
My plan was to swirl the lemon curd through the cake batter, which I did, but the curd seemed to sink to the bottom of the pan. This sounds like an epic fail but wait up, after biting into the coffee cake I was left with this amazing moist lemony crust on the bottom topped with sweet white chocolate chips. It was chewy and sticky and just freaking perfect!
The surface has a crunchy sugar crumb and extra white chocolate drizzle because well, more white chocolate never caused any arguments.
But it's the bottom of the coffee cake that really rocks things for me, the lemon and white chocolate are like a couple of newlyweds on the first night of a honeymoon. Sweet, buttery, tart and crunchy are all words I'd use to describe this lemon coffee cake.
Everyone needs coffee cake, this is the one.
I promise!
The best coffee cake flavored with sweet lemon curd and white chocolate with a crunchy sugar crumb topping and extra chocolate drizzle!
