This cranberry orange coffee cake is drizzled in an orange glaze and filled with a delicious cinnamon streusel. Perfect for the holidays, this cozy cake is ideal for breakfast or dessert! Your holiday season breakfast is here! Cranberry orange coffee cake is the epitome of the holiday season, in cake form. A super citrusy, soft […]
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This cranberry orange coffee cake is drizzled in an orange glaze and filled with a delicious cinnamon streusel. Perfect for the holidays, this cozy cake is ideal for breakfast or dessert!
Your holiday season breakfast is here!

Cranberry orange coffee cake is the epitome of the holiday season, in cake form. A super citrusy, soft and tender cake studded with fresh burst cranberries, filled with a cinnamon streusel and topped with an orange glaze? I am in love.
This is the loveliest holiday breakfast or dessert and I cannot beg you to make it fast enough.

Let’s be real: coffee cake is just an excuse to eat dessert for breakfast. Right? I will find any excuse to have cake for breakfast so here we are. It has fruit! Oranges and cranberries – vitamin C! It’s winter and we should probably eat that up. No complaining here.

SO!
Everyone in my family is obsessed with cranberry orange baked goods. My mom, all three kids, my cousins – they all love it. I’d venture to say that it’s their favorite holiday flavor, especially when it comes to things like muffins and cookies.
Or at least, their favorite holiday FRUIT flavor.
Yes yes. That makes sense.
Because no one here is picking cranberry orange over chocolate.

But anyway.
This cranberry orange cake is based on my blood orange coffee cake from a few years ago. Remember that one?! You guys love it. I love it. It’s beautiful and easy and so so delicious. It’s also great to make ahead of time for breakfast or company.
Plus, it’s super satisfying and filling.
This one is just like that, but filled with bursting cranberries. They look like deep red jewels in the coffee cake and the cinnamon streusel swirl throughout? Oh yum. It’s probably my favorite part.

I love that in this recipe, you mix the fresh grated orange zest with sugar. It really infuses the entire cake with bright, citrusy refreshing orange flavor. It just tastes… vibrant.
The cranberries are tart and complement the orange perfectly. Plus, they are pretty. The deep berry flavor adds a nice element of punch to the otherwise soft, citrus cake.

The drizzle on top is EVERYTHING. Freshly squeezed orange juice and some sugar come together to blanket this cake in the silkiest most beautiful way. It’s a nice touch to the cake and makes it taste extra special.

This cake is the perfect breakfast for christmas or new years. It makes for a wonderful gift to take someone for the holiday season and it also works as dessert too! Serve it with hot coffee and it’s the ultimate moment. I can’t get enough!
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