Apple Walnut Fig Coffee Cake

Usually every morning for breakfast I have the same thing to eat…two pieces of buttered multi-grain bread with nuts, seeds, and fruit or a bowl of fiber cereal. I woke up wanting something different, so I looked in my fridge to see what ingredients I had that needed to be used up (applesauce and fig jam) and decided to make a coffee cake based on an applesauce bread recipe I found. The strudel and confectioner’s sugar on top makes it a little less healthy than Donna’s Healthy Applesauce Bread which I reference below, but it sure does add a wonderful crunchy texture and tastes great!

The coffee cake is only mildly sweet which is exactly what I wanted. It’s moist, delicious, and oh-so tasty. It also smells divine! Oh my gosh, the whole time it was baking in the oven I thought I would go out of my mind with hunger. Well, it was also going on 5 p.m. before I ever sat down to eat breakfast because I just couldn’t stop myself from cooking. While I was making this coffee cake, I was also making homemade crackers and split pea soup. Then I had to clean up the mess and photograph everything.

But it was definitely worth the wait. Every single bite was heavenly!

Apple Walnut Fig Coffee Cake (Adapted from DonnaAJB8854’s Healthy Applesauce Bread)

Recipe Source for the Strudel Topping:  (simplyrecipes.com)