A delicious coffee cake might sound like a dream to those of us who have a Lorelai Gilmore in us. Luckily, the popularity of Gilmores has reached Tiktok with none other than Gilmore Girls coffee cake cookies, which are perfect to accompany the fall season.
Recently, the Gilmore Girls phenomenon has made its way into fans’ culinary preferences, with a coffee cake cookie recipe inspired by the Luke’s Diner menu.
On TikTok, a user named @thepalatablelife shared the recipe just in time for the fall season, and it has garnered over 8.5 million views.
How to Make Gilmore Girls Coffee Cake Cookies Recipe

If you’re interested in baking these coffee cake cookies to enjoy during your next Gilmore Girls comfort rewatch, channel your inner Sookie by starting with:
- A mixture of butter, vegetable oil, and brown sugar.
- Add half an egg, a little vanilla extract, and flour to the mixture.
- Shape the cookie dough into balls with a cookie scoop, and place them on a baking sheet, then flatten them into the typical cookie shape.
- For the cinnamon streusel topping, we prepared a separate mixture of butter, brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon, you can drizzle the streusel crumbs over your cookies.
- After baking for ten minutes, we’ll create a sticky mixture of powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla extract, to cover the cookies as soon as they come out of the oven.
In addition to being delicious, they are the perfect snack to reflect if you are Team Dean, Jess, or Logan, right?