New Product Kirkland Signature Maple Pecan Coffee Cake

The scoop

If you’re hosting brunch anytime soon, this Kirkland Signature Maple Pecan Coffee Cake might just be the find you didn’t know you needed. Spotted on the bakery shelves, it’s a hefty cake that looks ready to feed a crowd.

This coffee cake features a soft-baked base topped with a crumbly streusel, chopped pecans, and drizzles of icing. The label lists a cream cheese and butter base along with maple and brown sugar flavoring, so it sounds like a cozy, bakery-style treat built for fall and winter gatherings.

At over three pounds, this is clearly meant for sharing – think holiday breakfasts, office potlucks, or weekend guests. The ingredient list shows a fairly classic bakery approach, with real butter, cream cheese, and pecans mixed in alongside standard baking stabilizers.

Ingredients: Bleached enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, canola oil, eggs, pecans, brown sugar, icing (sugar, water, sorbitol, corn syrup, pectin, potassium sorbate [preservative], locust bean gum, salt, mono- and diglycerides, citric acid, agar, beta carotene [color]), cream cheese (pasteurized cultured milk and cream, salt, guar gum, carob bean gum), butter (cream and/or milk, salt), water. Contains 2% or less of the following: modified corn starch, soybean oil, palm oil, whey, emulsifiers (propylene glycol esters of fatty acids, mono- and diglycerides, distilled monoglycerides, sodium stearoyl lactylate, soy lecithin, citric acid), wheat gluten, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate), nonfat dry milk, sodium caseinate, egg whites, salt, sea salt, gums (xanthan, locust bean, guar), natural and artificial flavors, soy flour.

Bottom line: if you’re into maple-pecan flavors and need something impressive for a holiday morning spread, this coffee cake looks like a solid grab-and-go bakery option.