The Most Delicious Snack Cake Recipe (2024)

This is seriously the most delicious coffee cake recipe on the internet! At least, in my family's opinion it is and trust me, we've done a lot of research over the years. Whether you call it a snack cake, coffee cake or the best darned thing you've ever tasted - hold on to your hat because not only is this one of the best coffee cake recipes you'll ever try it's also got a secret ingredient: prunes!

Easy Dessert - One-bowl Baking

Looking for an easy dessert recipe to make? This gluten free coffee cake recipe calls for basic pantry ingredients, only needs one bowl to mix, and uses less sugar than traditional snack cake recipes thanks to the help of a top secret ingredient! Oh and did I mentionthat italso bakes in about half the time of other popular snack cake recipes because it is made in a loaf pan?

What exactly is a snack cake?

Snacking cakes, or coffee cakes are traditionally a small sheet cake or a cake that is baked in a small pan, like a loaf pan, with little to no icing. Snack cakes are made for keeping on the counter and stealing slivers from whenever the urge for cake hits. They're for eating with coffee or tea at breakfast, for packing in lunchboxes, and they are even a solid stand in for a super sweet dessert at night. Coffee cakes are a mobile snack which means you don't need a fork or a knife, just grab a napkin, grab a slice of cake, and you are ready to enjoy.

So, what about that secret ingredient I mentioned earlier?

True story, it's prunes! So what is a prune you ask? Is a prune a plum? Is one better than the other? Prune vs. Plum - the great debate. Just kidding - they are the same thing. Simply put, a prune is a dried plum. So why use prunes? Well, not only are they delicious but prunes are also good for you.

Prune Benefits

Yes, prunes are nutritious, containing not only vitamins and minerals, but also fiber and antioxidants that help reduce the risk of chronic disease. In addition, they are relatively low in calories and contain more of some nutrients than their fresh-off-the-tree counterparts - like vitamin B, vitamin K and fiber. The higher levels of fiber are also thought to help lower your blood sugar as it can slow the rate your body absorbs carbs after a meal. Who would have thought a coffee cake recipe could be this easy and nutritious?

I used to HATE prunes, but that all changed recently.

Afew months ago my friend KC, The G Free Foodie, called me up and asked if I was interested in developing some recipes with prunes as the star ingredient. I immediately said, "NOPE, out of my comfort zone." But then I started thinking about the tour of her family farm that she took me on when I visited her in California last fall. I remembered seeing the orchards full of plum trees growing the beautiful purple plums that are dried and then sold on supermarket shelves as prunes. That orchard was so beautiful, certainly whatever came out of it had to be delicious too!

Clearly, I decided to put my bias about prunes to the wayside and I tried to forgot every preconceived notion I ever had about them. Over the course of a few weeks I developed a handful of recipes with prunes and let me tell you, they are all DELICIOUS, but this one really is the most delicious coffee cake recipe to ever grace the internet.

I'm sure some people will sneer at the fact that I named this The Most Delicious Snack Cake Recipe, but I really had no other choice....

I too used to sneer at recipes I came across online with a title like "best ever" or " most delicious", but I think the fact that it's fast, easy, delicious, turned a prune hater into a prune lover that literally craves this Most Delicious Snack Cake Recipe every single day of the week makes it the best! You can't scoff at that and who knows maybe you'll give it a try and it will make all of your snack cake dreams come true too!

Looking for more delicious ways to infuse prunes into your daily life?

Chocolate Covered Prune Fudge Cake|| When I need a more elegant cake for a celebration this Chocolate Covered Prune Fudge Cake is the way to go. It is refined sugar and gluten free, but FULL of fudgy flavor.

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