Does coffee cake retain any caffeine?

There isn’t coffee in it. It is cake to accompany coffee.

There are lots of other hazardous foods. How many people suffer hearing loss from bangers?

And don’t even think about finger foods.

I’m with the first answer. There is no coffee in coffee cake.

There is coffee in some cakes and icings though. My guess, and it’s a complete guess, is caffeine doesn’t cook out. Coffee is made in boiling water, and chocolate is heated to high temps also, and both have caffeine. Unless, maybe the higher baking temp, compared to the boiling temp, makes it different.

In desserts that use coffee, the amount you consume is most likely insignificant. I’d compare it to eating a chocolate candy bar or chocolate piece of cake with chocolate icing. If you’re concerned you can use decaf coffee if you’re baking the cake.

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Truthfully, though, I thought the same thing about coffee cake for a long time. If I’d ever tried it, I would have figured it out, but I never did because I didn’t like the taste of coffee. Eventually I saw someone making it, and then the light dawned.

However, I didn’t expect tea cakes to contain tea. And that is weird, too, because I do expect apple cake and banana cake to have the named fruits among their ingredients.

We seem to follow a number of different systems for how we attach attributive nouns to other nouns. I’m glad it’s not up to me to articulate the rules.

There is Coca Cola in Coca Cola cake, and 7 Up in 7 Up cake, so that would bust any theory of cakes named after beverages are only accompaniments to the beverage and don’t contain the beverage.

No real rhyme or reason I guess.

Coffee cake should probably be called breakfast cake. The alternate name I believe is crumb cake? Isn’t that synonymous with coffee cake? It’s also a Steusel I think. Maybe there are subtle differences I don’t know about. I never studied this sort of thing, I’m just going by what I learned growing up; the various terms used around me.

I think the thing qualifying a coffee cake as such is @Zenvelo ‘s original observation. There was a bakery here some 30 years ago that turned out some stunning coffee cakes and they varied from rings that amounted to big fancy versions of danish or streussel, to pecan laden crumb coffee cakes. I miss that plsce.