Jumbleberry Coffee Cake

This is a big deal.

I don’t know if you’ve realized it, but we sell a lot of coffee cakes. Probably our biggest category of sales which makes sense because coffee cakes feed a lot of folks and make great gifts and—well, in many ways that really matter—we’re a gift giving company.

So we sell a lot of coffee cakes, but we only offer a handful of flavors…until today. Well, until this fall, really, but since you are a recipient of the Food Explorer’s Club YOU get to experience this BRAND NEW coffee cake before ANYONE ELSE in the world! (Aside from us lucky few who were involved in the taste testing and development. And yes, it’s a delicious part of what’s already a very cool job.)

Jumbleberry does have a bit of history around Zingerman’s, just not as a coffee cake. For a couple of decades by now, Zingerman’s Bakehouse has been crafting seasonal Jumbleberry pies and they knock your socks off. When I was a (younger) lad working at Zingerman’s Deli and we’d get to pick what we wanted for lunch, I would often pick a “mini” Jumbleberry pie, put it into a bowl, dump cold cream over it all then put a dollop of whipped cream on top. (I ingested a lot of calories back then.) It was fruity and rich and flavorful and an awesome pie in any form—so it’s no great surprise that it tastes great as a coffee cake, too!

So how did this all happen? In short, the pastry masters merged our world famous bundt style coffee cakes with the seasonal sensation that is Jumbleberry pie—without the crust, of course. Using the already luscious, rich and buttery Sweet Butter Tea cake as the base batter, they fold in a melange of berries: blackberries, blueberries, raspberries and cranberries. The bright, sweet, juicy flavors of the berries balances the buttery richness of the coffee cake creating an all new eating experience few have yet to enjoy.

Like I said: you’re officially the first to ever try it! So mark this day in your calendar and a decade down the road you can turn to your food loving coffee cake friends and say “I remember when they first dropped that coffee cake….”