Cream Cheese Almond Coffee Cake

Dawnab's Note:

An adopted recipe, I have made this ahead when having company over for and easy breakfast. Original Intro: A great moist coffee cake.

• Total Time: 50 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 1 9x13 ca ...

• ½ cup unsalted butter , room temperature
• 1 ¼ cups sugar
• 8 ounces cream cheese , room temperature
• 2 eggs , room temperature
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon almond extract
• 1 1⁄3; cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ¼ cup milk , room temperature
• ¾ cup dried cherries (or other dried fruit)

TOPPING

• ½ teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1⁄3; cup flour
• 1⁄3; cup brown sugar
• ½ cup sliced almonds

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Spray a 9 x 13 cake pan.
3. Cream butter, sugar and cream cheese very well until smooth.
4. Add eggs, one at a time, scraping down as needed add vanilla and mix inches.
5. Sift together dry ingredients and add alternately with milk.
6. Stir in cherries.
7. Spread into cake pan, smooth top Mix topping ingredients (excluding almonds) together.
8. Sprinkle almonds then topping over batter.
9. Press lightly.
10. Bake until tests done.

Reviews

[ejnei]

Nice and moist. It didn't rise as much as I thought it would. I used dried cranberries. Easy to make. Plan to make it again. Thanks. Oops! Just realized that I forgot to add the almond extract! Sigh.UPDATE: i have now made this cake 3 times since my first review. I'm addicted! I now use dried cranberries and 1 1/4 tsp almond extract and bake it for 30 minutes in a 9X13 pan. It is the best coffee cake I have ever tasted. Next time, I may use chocolate chips instead of the dried fruit and see how that works.

[Chef #670089]

This was very good. The batter was out of this world, I almost wanted to just pull out a spoon and eat the unbaked batter, it tasted almost like a mousse or a frosting. DH wouldn't let me though, LOL. He absolutely loved the finished product (baked for 30 minutes). It was great, and the house smelled like heaven! Thank you, this is a keeper!

[secretcook]

Very moist and wonderful. My DF could not stop raving about how good it was and my DSD who never eats ate it and took some home. I did not use any dried fruit because it just did not sound appealing but will be using real fruit in the the future. Thanks for a great recipe.