Cardamom & Almond Coffee Cake

Submitted by CountryLady

"Cardamom is a wonderful spice to flavour both sweet & savoury dishes - but a little goes a long way! This recipe comes from Christine Cushing, one of my favourite Toronto chefs."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 20mins
• Ingredients: 15
• Serves: 10-12

ingredients

• FILLING

• 1⁄2 cup almonds, with skin,chopped coarsely
• 3 tablespoons packed brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon cardamom
• 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

• CAKE

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 1⁄4 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1 cup packed light brown sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup sour cream

directions

1. FILLING: In a medium bowl, mix together almonds, sugar, flour and cardamom and melted butter with a fork or your fingertips.
2. CAKE: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
3. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and baking soda and set aside.
4. Cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
5. Add the eggs, one at a time and beating well between additions.
6. Beat in vanilla.
7. Add the dry ingredients in thirds to the creamed butter mixture, alternating with the sour cream, beating in between additions and ending with dry ingredients.
8. Scrape down the sides and beat for 1 minute to develop structure of cake.
9. Line an 8-inch springform pan with parchment paper and grease sides.
10. Pour half of the batter into the pan and sprinkle half of the almond mixture over the cake.
11. Pour the remaining batter into the pan, spreading it out if necessary.
12. Top with the remaining almond mixture.
13. Bake on the middle rack of oven for 50 to 60 minutes.
14. Cake is done when a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.
15. Leave cake in pan and cool on a wire rack for 20 minutes.
16. Remove from pan and cool completely.

Reviews

[najwa]

This is an excellent recipe! I have made it twice, once as specified, and the next time, I used white instead of brown sugar, yogurt instead of sour cream, omitted the filling and added the cardamom to the batter .. both were great, and I will be making this often! my husband loved it .. it freezes very well, we enjoyed it for days afterwards .. thanks for posting such a wonderful recipe!