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Ok sorry BBC coffee cake while it may be a cake flavored with coffee, is not actually what the definition is. Coffee cake is dense, sweet, cake usually with a streusel top flavored with spices like cinnamon, or nutmeg. Where did cake flavored with instant coffee come from? This "article" is incorrect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.240.231.252 ( talk) 19:11, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
This is clearly incorrect. The only English speaking countries in the world where "coffee cake" would be inferred to mean a cake that does not contain coffee is the USA and Canada.
In the US coffee cake may refer to a cake eaten with coffee, but this is not the case in most of the world. Also, the claim that this usage comes from German via Kaffeekuchen is strange, as in Germany Kaffeekuchen is a cake made from coffee (i.e a coffee cake). Germany does have the idea of "Kaffee und Kuchen", which refers to the regular cultural eating of cakes with Koffee, and seems more similar to the US term, but this has nothing to do with Kaffeekuchen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8071:6A7:CA00:E58E:BC00:36AC:90D4 ( talk) 15:47, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
The lead section is fairly incoherent and jumps around between details of specific types of coffee cake; it seems to have been written by multiple people but never cleaned up. Some of this information could go into subsections, which themselves could use some bolstering. More specifically, a section about the history of coffee cake would be a good addition. The sources don't seem to be reliable because they only consist of recipes from random individuals. Other more general articles about coffee cake would be better suited as sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MCDB40Student81 ( talk • contribs) 19:15, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
In older Swedish recipe books there is often a kind of cake called "kaffekaka". They are usually cardamom and/or cinnamon flavoured, but never contain coffee. Presumably they are rather named for being eaten in combination with coffee, as "fika". Unfortunately I can't think of any good/reliable source for this (a side from grandma's recipe collection). 98.128.229.197 ( talk) 18:50, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
This article is pretty much exclusively written from an Americocentric point of view. Coffee cakes exist in other countries, where they are typically flavoured with coffee. Examples include UK and Ireland, France, Italy. I'd suggest either working those into the prose of this article somehow, or renaming this article to American coffee cake. Sideswipe9th ( talk) 01:54, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
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Ok sorry BBC coffee cake while it may be a cake flavored with coffee, is not actually what the definition is. Coffee cake is dense, sweet, cake usually with a streusel top flavored with spices like cinnamon, or nutmeg. Where did cake flavored with instant coffee come from? This "article" is incorrect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.240.231.252 ( talk) 19:11, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
This is clearly incorrect. The only English speaking countries in the world where "coffee cake" would be inferred to mean a cake that does not contain coffee is the USA and Canada.
In the US coffee cake may refer to a cake eaten with coffee, but this is not the case in most of the world. Also, the claim that this usage comes from German via Kaffeekuchen is strange, as in Germany Kaffeekuchen is a cake made from coffee (i.e a coffee cake). Germany does have the idea of "Kaffee und Kuchen", which refers to the regular cultural eating of cakes with Koffee, and seems more similar to the US term, but this has nothing to do with Kaffeekuchen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8071:6A7:CA00:E58E:BC00:36AC:90D4 ( talk) 15:47, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
The lead section is fairly incoherent and jumps around between details of specific types of coffee cake; it seems to have been written by multiple people but never cleaned up. Some of this information could go into subsections, which themselves could use some bolstering. More specifically, a section about the history of coffee cake would be a good addition. The sources don't seem to be reliable because they only consist of recipes from random individuals. Other more general articles about coffee cake would be better suited as sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MCDB40Student81 ( talk • contribs) 19:15, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
In older Swedish recipe books there is often a kind of cake called "kaffekaka". They are usually cardamom and/or cinnamon flavoured, but never contain coffee. Presumably they are rather named for being eaten in combination with coffee, as "fika". Unfortunately I can't think of any good/reliable source for this (a side from grandma's recipe collection). 98.128.229.197 ( talk) 18:50, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
This article is pretty much exclusively written from an Americocentric point of view. Coffee cakes exist in other countries, where they are typically flavoured with coffee. Examples include UK and Ireland, France, Italy. I'd suggest either working those into the prose of this article somehow, or renaming this article to American coffee cake. Sideswipe9th ( talk) 01:54, 5 March 2024 (UTC)