Chocolate Chip Caramel Coffee Cake

It doesn’t get much better than this Chocolate Chip Caramel Coffee Cake for a delicious brunch recipe. Tender vanilla cake is layered with salted caramel and studded with chocolate chips for the perfect sweet treat for breakfast or dessert!

Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake

Brunch just isn’t complete without a good coffee cake or muffin for a sweet addition to the spread. This Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake joins some of our favorite coffee cake recipes with its layers of salted caramel and dark chocolate chips.

We grew up loving Blueberry Sour Cream Coffee Cake, but my mother never altered from this delicious go-to. I, on the other, hand always love trying new varieties, and this chocolate chip coffee cake and Rhubarb Streusel Coffee Cake are regularly in my rotation.

• Blueberry Sour Cream Coffee Cake
• Rhubarb Streusel Coffee Cake

Salted Caramel Swirled Coffee Cake

As if a chocolate chip coffee cake wouldn’t be good enough, we took this to the next level with layers if rich salted caramel. Caramel is great, but an extra pinch of salt makes for the perfect balance of sweet and salty flavors.

Dark Chocolate Chips

We used dark chocolate chips for this coffee cake to compliment the sweet caramel. Also, dark chocolate is just our favorite. If you don’t have dark chocolate chips on hand, semi-sweet chocolate chips will work good as well.

How to Make Coffee Cake

Gather up your baking ingredients and get started making a vanilla cake.

In a large mixing bowl, add butter and sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Add vanilla extract, eggs and milk and stir together just until well combined.

In a separate large bowl, add flour, chocolate chips, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir to combine and then pour the sugar and butter mixture into the dry ingredients bowl. Mix just until combined.

Easy Salted Caramel

To a medium saucepan, add the butter, brown sugar and corn syrup. Bring to a boil and cook on high for 3-5 minutes until the mixture is smooth and thickened. Remove from the heat and stir in the vanilla and salt.

Layering Coffee Cake

Pour half of the cake batter in a greased 9×13 pan. Drizzle half of the caramel over the batter. Top the caramel with the remaining half of the cake batter and finish by pouring the remaining caramel sauce on top. Use a butter knife and drag through the cake and caramel mixture a few times in each direction to swirl the caramel into the cake batter.

Sprinkle chocolate chips on top of the cake and bake at 350F for 45-50 minutes, until the center of the cake is set and a toothpick comes out clean with no batter.

More sweet brunch recipes!

We’ve got more dessert recipes…ahem, I mean sweet brunch recipes for your next breakfast. Let’s be honest, there isn’t much difference between a muffin and a cupcake besides the frosting, or a cake and a coffee cake. But we can call them whatever we want to make it brunch appropriate!

Check out some of these fantastic brunch recipes

Caramel Apple Pecan Monkey Bread – For more caramel goodness, these pull apart caramel rolls with tender apples and crunchy pecans are fantastic!

Banana Coffee Cake – This sour cream banana coffee cake with a decadent streusel is sure to be a crowd pleaser

Strawberry Rhubarb Turnovers – These flakey turnovers made with frozen puff pastry and a vanilla icing are just so darn good.

Cranberry Streusel Streusel Muffins – The combination of tangy cranberries with a sweet pecan streusel is amazing

• Caramel Apple Pecan Monkey Bread
• Strawberry Rhubarb Turnovers
• Cranberry Streusel Streusel Muffins

Serving: 1 g | Calories: 649 kcal | Carbohydrates: 72 g | Protein: 7 g | Fat: 38 g | Saturated Fat: 23 g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 12 g | Trans Fat: 1 g | Cholesterol: 122 mg | Sodium: 513 mg | Fiber: 3 g | Sugar: 48 g