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Best Coffee Cake Bake Off

by erika 25 Comments

I almost never order coffee cake at bakeries or coffee shops, refraining with the justification that I can make that at home. But I never do get around to it, so here’s my attempt at finding the best from-scratch coffee cake that’s worth the effort.

My ideal coffee cake? A plush, fluffy cake divided by a cinnamon-spiked, fudgy-but-not-gooey swirl, strewn with giant, salty, brown sugary crumbs that shatter crunchy debris across each bite. You may notice a pattern from past bake offs: I like my cake texture a little drier–best for eating with coffee or tea!

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METHODOLOGY // RESULTS // FACTORS // ANALYSIS // RECOMMENDATIONS

Methodology

  • 41 total tasters
  • All 9 recipes were made and baked the day of tasting
  • All tasters ranked each coffee cake on a scale from 0-10 for taste, texture and overall as a whole
  • Most recipes were baked in a 9×13 or 8×8 glass pan lined with parchment paper (What’s Gaby Cooking was baked in a metal 9″ pan)

Ingredients

  • Gold Medal bleached all-purpose flour
  • HEB enriched cake flour
  • Kroger self-rising flour
  • Unsalted Land O Lakes butter
  • Nielsen Massey vanilla extract
  • Bob’s Red Mill baking powder and soda
  • Diamond kosher salt
  • Daisy sour cream
  • Chobani plain, full fat Greek yogurt
  • Kroger buttermilk, whole milk and heavy cream
  • Imperial granulated sugar and dark brown sugar
  • Medaglia D’Oro espresso powder

Recipe Selection

As I started scraping recipes for this bake off, I found a TON of coffee cake recipes. So I narrowed the contenders for this bake off to the following requirements:

  • a coffee cake, not a crumb cake
  • included a layer of filling
  • did not include nuts

What is coffee cake?

Traditional American-style coffee cake is most commonly a sour cream-based pound cake cake layered with cinnamon sugar and streusel. Confusingly, it typically does not include coffee IN the cake, it’s simply made to be eaten alongside coffee. I know, ANY cake can be eaten alongside coffee. I don’t make up the rules.

What is the difference between coffee cake and crumb cake? Internet consensus seems to boil it down to the streusel. Crumb cakes are generally single layer cakes with a significantly thicker layer of crumbs (they can be composed of dangerously little cake) with crumbs that can be thicker and crunchier than those found on coffee cake.

While crumb cake could technically be categorized as coffee cake, I consider crumb cake to be a specific, very delicious sub-category of coffee cake, and felt it would be unfair to mix the two.

Why did the recipe have to include a layer of filling? I could not find any data to back this up, but to me, traditional coffee cake should also have a swirl of filling in the middle. It also seemed fairer for an apples-to-apples comparison.

Why no nuts? Again, for consistency. So if you see any famous recipes missing (ahem Ina, Martha, America’s Test Kitchen, etc.), it’s probably because they include nuts, so they’ll be coming in a separate coffee cake bake off.

Best Coffee Cake Bake Off // The Pancake Princess

Results

Another bake off, another set of results that didn’t quite align with my personal rankings. (I note my personal favorites at the veryyyyy bottom of this post under recommendations.) I note in the factors below a few reasons why some of my top picks fared more poorly.

Overall, this was a more difficult bake off to judge than I anticipated because while a few coffee cakes stood out for things like an extreme amount of streusel or brown sugar, there were a fair amount of coffee cakes that were all relatively similar (and that’s reflected in the clumping of rankings below):

Factors

In looking at the ingredient breakdowns of both the cakes and streusels below, I really couldn’t pull out any big correlation themes around rankings and ingredients used (except maybe that tasters preferred streusels made with brown sugar). However, I included a few observations around technique below.

Streusel ratio: I think this was a huge factor that affected rankings (further reinforcing the decision to omit crumb cakes as they likely would have won decisively). Any recipe with complaints of not enough streusel tended to be ranked lower no matter how good the cake itself was.

Streusel mixing method: I cannot say I noticed any difference in the crumbs made with melted butter vs. softened butter cut in with a fork vs. cold butter cut in with a fork (the most useless, laborious task in my mind). I think the texture of the streusel really comes down to the ratio of butter vs. dry ingredients and ensuring that you don’t overmix the crumbs into a paste. In any case, I highly recommend melting the butter when making streusel for the easiest method!

Dairy type:

  • Sour cream: Sour-cream based cakes took the top two spots–sour cream is key to providing the fat and moisture to create the substantial crumb of a traditional coffee cake.
  • Greek yogurt: Since we only tested one recipe using Greek yogurt (Starbucks), it’s hard to tell if the lower fat content of full-fat Greek yogurt handicapped this recipe against the sour cream recipes (I think the lower scores were more due to the lack of streusel). I think the even, spongy crumb of the yogurt cake was very pleasing and would easily use it again if I didn’t have sour cream on hand.
  • Cream cheese: Sugar Spun Run had a noticeably shaggy, fluffy crumb that seemed slightly drier than its sour cream counterparts. (Because Jessie combines cream cheese with oil, it’s hard to tell what the effect of the cream cheese really was).
  • Buttermilk: Using buttermilk only in Joy the Baker’s cake led to a much lighter crumb relative to the rest–a more traditional yellow cake style that I preferred. If you find traditional coffee cake too heavy, try one without sour cream!

Bake time: Let us not let me, your enthusiastic home baker host, off the hook and ignore the fact that I may have overbaked several of these cakes. In the name of ensuring that no one was eating raw batter, I baked most of these to the upper limit of the suggested bake time, and sometimes a few minutes beyond to ensure the skewer coming out was decidedly clean. So, if some of these cakes are marked down for dryness, I fully acknowledge that this could be due to my baking skills, not the recipe, and encourage you to give the recipe a try anyway if it sounds good to you!

Analysis

The Boy Who Bakes Coffee Cake // The Pancake Princess

The Boy Who Bakes: a fluffy, powdery coffee cake laced with an espresso swirl and brown butter crumb

This recipe comes from Edd’s new cookbook, One Tin Bakes, (via Yossy at Apt. 2b Baking Co) and features a sour cream cake topped with a brown butter streusel. Edd’s cake also stood out for its incorporation of espresso into the swirl (coffee cakes typically don’t actually include coffee in the cake). While I didn’t pick up the specific espresso notes in the final product, I loved the finely crumbed, slightly drier cake with the addictingly crunchy streusel nubs. Note: I made the brown butter streusel the night before the bake off and I think the additional chilling time made my coffee cake look slightly different from Yossy’s pictures–the crumbs were more discrete nuggets on top rather than more dispersed crumbles.

Tasters loved the picturesque layers of this cake, the lightness and airiness of the crumb, and some liked the dryness of the cake. Most marked this down because the texture was drier and the cake wasn’t as flavorful as others. While some loved the “crunch” and distribution of the streusel, some found it almost chalky and wished for more streusel.

In defense of this coffee cake, I want to point out that 1) looking at the well done bottom, it’s very possible I overbaked this cake, making it drier than it was intended and 2) I still loved the drier texture–to me, the fluffy, drier crumb is quintessential coffee cake and I loved the ratio of cake to filling to crumb, as well as the flavor of the crumb. Don’t let the low ranking dissuade you; this was one of my favorite cakes!

Starbucks Coffee Cake // The Pancake Princess

Starbucks: a spongy, evenly-crumbed coffee cake with minimal streusel with heavy yellow cake vibes

Though I nearly made an exception to include Bravetart’s coffee cake in this bake off (a non-swirled coffee cake), I ultimately went with Starbuck’s nearly identical recipe as it includes a swirl. As a Greek yogurt-based coffee cake that uses cake flour, I’m not sure if it was the yogurt or something else that caused this cake to have by far the most even, bouncy crumb. It had the commercial precision that you’d expect from a slice from Starbucks. The main problem I had with this recipe was the baking instructions–it recommends muffin tins or a mini loaf tin with a bake time of 14 minutes. Please note that this recipe easily filled a 9×13 pan, and baked for the typical 45-50 min.

“I don’t think this is a coffee cake,” said one taster–many commented that this was very reminiscent of a yellow cake but lacking elements of a traditional coffee cake “no tang,” “slightly spongy,” “way too little streusel.” Some liked the soft “cloud-like” texture of the cake and the cinnamon flavor, but most thought it could use more spice, way more streusel, and wished there was more texture to the streusel. Overall, I had no complaints with the cake (give me soft yellow cake any day of the week), but agree with the streusel comments–I would double the streusel if I made this cake again.

Simply Recipes Coffee Cake // The Pancake Princess

Simply Recipes: a classic, very sweet and subtly spiced coffee cake

Cindy’s recipe via Simply Recipes came highly recommended from a number of people. Her sour cream-based cake stood out to me because of its relatively high sugar ratio (29%, only topped by Jessie Sheehan’s cake at 30%) and also because it contains ratios coincidentally extremely similar to Jessie’s cake–only with white sugar, butter and sour cream instead of brown sugar, oil and cream cheese. Like The Food Charlatan, this cake makes an enormous amount of batter–fantastic for a crowd!

While I think any crowd would enjoy this cake, my tasters leaned into the nuances to critique this cake. Tasters generally loved the fluffy texture of this cake–“best texture so far, quintessential texture of coffee cake,” said one taster. “Very fluffy but somehow also dense?” questioned another. The main critique was around leaning a little too heavily on sweetness vs. spice. “Subtle pound cake flavor that could use more spice,” “tastes like a sugar cookie,” “almost cloyingly sweet,” said a few. “More flavor and this could be a winner,” summed up one taster. However, if you like your cake on the less-spiced side, this could be the winner for you!

Sugar Spun Run Coffee Cake // The Pancake Princess

Sugar Spun Run: a cream cheese-based cake with a shaggy crumb

I used Sugar Spun Run as a cream cheese control as the cake is a butter and buttermilk-based recipe (vs. Jessie’s cream cheese + oil-based cake). It bakes up into a drier-textured cake with a shaggy, close crumb that melts in your mouth with a streusel heavy on the cinnamon. The buttermilk gives a slight tang to the cake. Personally, I would prefer slightly more cinnamon swirl in the middle as well as streusel on top.

Tasters praised the crumble top as “perfection” with big clumps, great crunch, great ratio of streusel to cake and a strong cinnamon flavor, though a few thought it was a little “dry and sandy” (which could be due to baker’s error if I didn’t mix the crumb mixture well enough!) Some loved the “angel food-like” texture of the cake, but others found it too dry. A few thought there was almost a chai-like flavor to the cake/streusel and most enjoyed the level of cinnamon in the crumb.

Joy the Baker Coffee Cake // The Pancake Princess

Joy the Baker: an airy and light buttermilk-based cake with an abundance of streusel

Joy’s coffee cake recipe on her blog is very similar to the version in her book–she just swaps buttermilk for the sour cream. (The version linked references blueberries, but I omitted those for the bake off test.) I was intrigued by the lack of a thicker dairy and further intrigued by her promise of “extra crumb.” This cake immediately stood out from the others with a distinctively light and airy crumb–a more traditional yellow cake texture vs. the denser crumb of a coffee cake. And yes, it did have plenty of crunchy crumb topping which was delightful–but also a bit unwieldy some of the dry bits fell off the top (the lower ratio of butter made it hard to moisten all the crumbs evenly). I think the subtle tang from the buttermilk kept us from missing the sour cream.

Tasters nearly universally loved the ratio of crunchy streusel to cake, calling it the “best streusel yet.” Most also loved the moist, light-textured fluffiness and softness of the cake crumb, though a couple thought it had a slightly “bready” texture. One of my favorite tasting comments said: “[In a Carrie Bradshaw voice] and so i asked myself…”do bakers of coffee cake just rely on the crumb for the overall flavor? If you have thicker crumb, does it outweigh the other parts of the cake that aren’t great?” It’s a great question that deserves some pondering. In this case, both the cake and crumb were excellent to me. My only qualm (shared with a few others) was that it felt like there was an almost overpowering amount of spice in the gooey filling layer–but a very small quibble for an otherwise outstanding coffee cake!

King Arthur Baking Company Coffee Cake // The Pancake Princess

King Arthur Baking Company: a richly crumbed coffee cake with crunchy streusel and a gooey cinnamon roll-like filling

This cake base is identical to Joy the Baker’s coffee cake recipe in her cookbook (though that Joy uses more crumb)–it’s a fairly typical sour cream/butter base. I was curious to see how this cake (with less crumb) fared against Joy’s buttermilk-based cake recently published on her blog. Was that confusing? Check out the “Finalists – no nuts” tab on my Google spreadsheet if you want to see the exact breakdown of each recipe. Personally, I liked the lighter crumb of her buttermilk cake, but most seemed to prefer the slightly heavier crumb of the King Arthur recipe with its mixture of sour cream and milk.

Tasters loved the crunchy texture of the streusel, the ratio of streusel and gooey cinnamon roll-like filling (though some found the filling too sticky). The “sticky and rich” filling seemed to set this cake apart from many others with many calling this a “cinnamon roll”/Cinnabon vibes-like” cake. Some thought this was the “best cake texture” while others thought it leaned a little dry. “Does all the little things right without being flashy. Not too sweet, nice texture.” said one taster. Overall, I agree–with a solid cake, great streusel ratio and a richly-flavored filling, this is a crowd-pleaser!

Jessie Sheehan Coffee Cake // The Pancake Princess

Jessie Sheehan: an uber-moist, brown sugar-laced coffee cake rich with notes of vanilla and molasses

I originally included Jessie’s recipe due to her unusual use of olive oil (instead of butter, to help prevent a dense crumb) and cream cheese (instead of sour cream). But upon further look, her signature penchant for brown sugar in baked goods and a very sweet flavor profile were also unique markers that set her recipe apart. Loaded with 100% brown sugar, extra egg yolks and a generous amount of vanilla, this coffeecake is unquestionably moist, rich, dense and fragrant with vanilla and molasses notes. A thick swirl of dark brown sugar spiked with cinnamon ties everything together. Jessie also uses self-rising flour due to a tip from Shirley Corriher, who swears by the perfectly distributed leavening, which helps create a fine, even crumb. Unfortunately, the extremely moist crumb topping melded into a crunchy mass on top of the cake, but the flavor (especially around the caramelized, crunchy, sugary edges) was fantastic.

I did have some trouble with this cake sinking in the middle and telling when it was done because the center is so gooey, but tasters seemed to love the result. Some loved the the extreme moistness and gooey texture while others thought it was overly sticky. Some loved the crunchiness of the streusel and sweet chewiness of the caramelized edges while others wished the streusel was more disparate and not as melded into the coffee cake itself. Tasters loved the depth of flavor and cinnamon flavor while others thought spices were a little overpowering (one specifically wished the vanilla had been dialed down a bit).

The only downside of this cake is that it calls for slightly finicky ingredients (self-rising flour, club soda, extra egg yolks). But if you’re looking for a flavor-packed, moist, brown sugary coffee cake, this is the cake for you!

What's Gaby Cooking Coffee Cake // The Pancake Princess

What’s Gaby Cooking: a buttery cake with a generous amount of subtly spiced streusel

What’s Gaby Cooking’s recipe was selected as the “control” recipe–basically a nut-less version of Martha Stewart, this recipe uses fairly common proportions in its cake ingredients (note that we omitted the glaze). Where it diverts from some recipes is in using the streusel as the layer of filling as well as on top of the cake vs. a standalone cinnamon-based ribbon. I actually loved this strategy as it formed a thick, slightly fudgy, subtly spiced swath through the moist-crumbed cake. While I found the cake a bit dry, I think the buttery texture paired extremely well with the subtle ribbon of streusel and the generous amount of streusel on top.

Tasters widely praised the buttery flavor and moist texture of the cake, the ideal level of salt and amount of streusel. One noted that the “flavor of the streusel really made the cake” and another called it “simply fantastic. Best texture and complete flavor. Not too sweet, not too spicy, but still enough separate flavor in the streusel and the cake to where each could be enjoyed on their own.” Most critics thought the cake was either a bit dry or bland, but agreed the streusel made up for it. Overall, an excellent cake to try! I will likely use the streusel-as-filling technique going forward as I prefer it over gooey, cinnamon-heavy fillings.

The Food Charlatan Coffee Cake // The Pancake Princess

The Food Charlatan: a behemoth of a buttery, brown sugary, streusel lover’s dream

Karen’s recipe stood out for its higher egg proportion (17.6% vs. an average of 10.5% across other cakes) but mainly for its jaw-dropping amount of streusel–there’s more flour, sugar and butter in the streusel recipe than the cake itself. And where does it all go? Two layers of streusel are strewn into the cake, some goes on top–but the last cup is reserved to add on top halfway through the cake’s bake time so that the streusel doesn’t sink. The result is a cake batter that is thickly marbled with tender, buttery streusel (some of which retains a slight crunch, some of which softens into a fudgy swirl), not just on top. What’s the cake flavor like? Sorry, couldn’t hear you because of all the streusel!

Unsurprisingly, tasters loved the streusel to cake ratio! However, tasters also loved the texture of the cake: “cake was the right amount of moist with a nice tight crumb,” “fun flavor pockets,” “moist.” Most critiques referenced lacking a bit of flavor (some wanted more spices to come through) but for the most part, people just loved the buttery, crunchy streusel. Like What’s Gaby Cooking, I loved the way the streusel baked into the cake itself formed soft, brown sugary pockets within the buttery cake. It is quite sweet, but if you love streusel, you can’t miss this cake!

Recommendations

Best traditional coffee cakes: What’s Gaby Cooking, King Arthur, Simply Recipes, The Boy Who Bakes

Best for streusel lovers: The Food Charlatan, Joy the Baker

Best for brown sugar lovers: Jessie Sheehan

Best for cinnamon lovers: Jessie Sheehan, King Arthur, Spun Sugar Run, The Food Charlatan

My personal favorites that I couldn’t stop eating, in order: The Boy Who Bakes (fresh or day old), Joy the Baker (when fresh), The Food Charlatan (fresh or day old)

King Arthur Baking Company Coffee Cake // The Pancake Princess

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  1. Dave

    December 19, 2022 at 10:49 am

    Try MYGrandma’s of New England Coffee Cake if you want the BEST

    Reply
  2. Miriam

    October 13, 2022 at 3:18 pm

    After many coffee cake recipes I was never satisfied with them, until I tried Sugar Spun Run’s recipe and it was perfect. the beat I ever bad. I’ve made it several times now and I have never had dry results like you had. Judging by the pictures it looks like you over baked hers. I wish you would give her recipes another try, because she truly has the best recipes.

    Reply
    • Miriam

      October 13, 2022 at 3:20 pm

      Her pumpkin coffee cake is to die for.

      Reply
  3. tipssaving

    April 15, 2022 at 2:18 am

    What a great coffee cake baking recipe. I will really try this recipe at my bakery.

    Reply
  4. AMIT

    April 12, 2022 at 3:09 am

    Great Coffee Cake Recipe! Thanks for sharing this recipe with us.

    Reply
  5. Mohit mittal

    January 13, 2022 at 12:06 pm

    What an amazing coffee cake bake-off recipe. I will really try this recipe in my bakery.

    Reply
  6. Lauren Weller

    December 14, 2021 at 2:41 pm

    This was great!! I made The Food Charlatan’s and it is divine! the amount of streusel is a bit scary, but it’s all worth it in the end! Thanks for creating this beautiful website! I’m on it every week and am 1000000% obsessed

    Reply
  7. Liz

    December 2, 2021 at 6:20 pm

    Thank you for this bakeoff!! I will try Whats GAbys Cooking’s recipe first!! Sour cream sounds like a great component to the coffee cakes.

    Reply
  8. Devashish Tripathi

    November 28, 2021 at 10:13 pm

    The recipe looks so yummy and I cant wait to try this masterpiece for my mother birthday thanks for sharing this with us

    Reply
  9. alice T

    October 25, 2021 at 10:40 am

    Love the analytical and organized approach to cooking. Ended up making the Charlatan recipe based on your info (Streusel maniac). Substituted cashew milk yogurt for the sour cream. Using the measurements, didn’t have enough batter for the top layer, but the cake worked out great.

    Thank you very much, Pancake Princess!

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    • erika

      November 1, 2021 at 9:02 am

      Glad to hear the cake still turned out, thanks for reporting back Alice!!

      Reply
  10. Nicole

    September 28, 2021 at 6:51 pm

    Ok, I made the Boy Who Bakes Cake and felt that it was very much so a “trust the process” cake/recipe. The taste was great and we made it last maybe 3-4 days and it didn’t harden over time; delicious every day! On the recipe part – the streusel topping was not a standard streusel, I wonder if this was because I used American butter which tends to have more water than European and this seems like a European recipe. The streusel was quite wet when I put it in the freezer and it froze pretty hard in this process. I ended up adding it back into my kitchen aid to break up before topping my cake. As for the cake, I only have a glass 9×13” dish. I put 2/3 of the cake batter into the dish and it was laughable how little batter was in the cake pan. My boyfriend and I laughed soooo hard at what a disaster this looked like before the transfer. Fortunately the parchment made it easy to throw into a 9×9” pan I had so I switched it over and made it work! It seemed like a much better fit and still made plenty of coffee cake. Oh yeah, I did sub the espresso powder for coffee granules that I pulverized and it was still good! Thank you Erika for all of your bake off work! I love this concept and always trust the top contenders (for flavor 😉 lol) curious if you had any issues like I did, but I was one hell of a tasty coffee cake!

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  11. Deepak Shukla

    September 20, 2021 at 6:49 am

    Hi….I Like Coffee Cake. Wonderful Cake Recipe and I Will Try at Home.

    Thanks For Sharing Articles!!!…..

    Reply
  12. Andrew Paul

    September 9, 2021 at 9:21 am

    Thank you for this informative recipe dear , i prepare this cake on my anniversary party by own and everyone in the party like that alot.

    Reply
  13. FA Cakes

    August 6, 2021 at 7:03 am

    Coffee is one of the different flavor the people who have never tasted any other than chocolate, butterscotch or vanilla only. Well, thanks for sharing this lovely recipe for educating people like me that I should taste coffee flavour once in life too.

    Reply
  14. Alison

    February 23, 2021 at 1:09 pm

    Did you make the icing for the Food Charlatan one? Seems like gilding the lily.

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    • erika

      February 24, 2021 at 12:09 pm

      Actually, I think I did not make the icing! Agree, I don’t think it needs it!

      Reply
  15. Gina

    November 1, 2020 at 5:20 pm

    I recently found your website but I am In love with your detailed bake offs! I love your analysis and the time you take into giving the best possible reviews for each recipe! please do more! Maybe cheesecakes next??

    Reply
  16. Ronak Mehta

    October 29, 2020 at 1:50 am

    Baked this cake for my birthday and it was an absolute hit! So moist and tasty. Thank you for doing what you do

    Reply
  17. ANGELA

    October 15, 2020 at 2:17 pm

    I love you so much for doing this. Thank you!! You are so thorough, it’s incredibly helpful 🙂 perhaps if you can do one for biscuits/strawberry cake/pound cake/basque cheesecake/blondies/brownies/various bread, that would be super cool lol thank you again for all your research!

    Reply
  18. Cakebon

    October 14, 2020 at 7:36 am

    Why does reading this make me even more hungry! They all look so great, but the one which sounds best for me is Jessie Sheehan’s. It looks and sounds awsome! Time to get baking…

    Reply
  19. Karen

    October 9, 2020 at 6:38 pm

    This is such a fun bake off Erika!! I loved reading this. Thank you for all your hard work, as always! And thank you for including me!! 🙂 Coffee cake ftw. They all look so good!

    Reply
  20. Margot

    October 9, 2020 at 8:43 am

    I recently purchased One Tin Bakes and haven’t made much from it, so now I know what I’ll make next! I tend to gravitate more toward crumb cakes than coffee cakes, because crunchy topping. I am sure you probably have a huge backlog of bake-off ideas, but that would be a good one.

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    • erika

      October 9, 2020 at 10:04 am

      Yes, I really do recommend Edd’s coffee cake! And yes, I am very excited to try a crumb cake bake off in the future!

      Reply
      • Margot

        October 10, 2020 at 1:08 pm

        I made it this morning, but haven’t tried it yet. I found it rather difficult to spread the second layer of batter, but luckily I had halved the recipe, but made the full crumb part (preparing to possibly save some for something else), so the cake is well covered. I also just took a look at the Food Charlatan recipe, which I think I’ll try next since it was such a hit!

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