coffee cake

noun

: a sweet rich bread often with added fruit, nuts, and spices that is sometimes glazed after baking

Examples of coffee cake in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

What most diners yearned for were the heaps of food that were handed out with every meal: rolls, pickles, muffins — and, in years past — coffee cakes and an assortment of pastries, including five different types of danishes. —Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025

Five years ago, McEnroe went full-time with her coffee cake endeavors. —Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 13 Mar. 2025

Beattie and pastry chef Natalie Quach charmed customers with inventive, superbly executed baked goods such as buckwheat coffee cake and chocolate chip cookies made with Oak Park Brewing grains, as well as a small menu of salads and sandwiches. —Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2025

While most coffee cake recipes don’t involve any coffee at all, these colossal bakery-style muffins take the recipe name a bit more literally. —Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Feb. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1865, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for coffee cake

• overtake
• rattlesnake
• shiitake
• undertake
• wapentake
• ache
• ake
• bake
• brake
• break
• craik
• crake