"Exact preparations can vary, but when foodies hear "coffee cake," they can expect some version of spongey white cake ribboned with cinnamon sugar and topped with crumbly streusel ... or, you would think so, anyway. This portrait surely does not apply to Reese's Coffee Cake Mix, which fell to last place in Tasting Table's ranking of six store-bought coffee cake mixes."
"But, ultimately, the resulting product here isn't similar to any baked good that we would identify as a "coffee cake." As our reviewer noted, "Its peanut butter flavor is strong, and it also has peanut butter chips studding the inside. I can't call either of those a bad thing, but [...] the top layer of streusel was the only element that signified what type of bake this was.""
Many expect coffee cake to be a spongy white cake ribboned with cinnamon sugar and topped with streusel. Reese's Coffee Cake Mix delivers a strong peanut butter flavor with peanut butter chips and a streusel top but omits the middle cinnamon-sugar layer commonly central to coffee cake. Better Crocker recommends serving it with cold milk rather than coffee. Customer comments praise the peanut butter profile and recommend it to Reese's fans. In a taste test of six store-bought mixes, it ranked last, appealing primarily to peanut-butter enthusiasts rather than traditional coffee-cake purists.
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