Harvest Streusel Coffee Cake

Derf's Note:

Nothing nicer that a fresh fruit streusel coffee cake warm from the oven! Adapted from Canadian Living magazine (1999)

• Total Time: 1 hrs 20 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Servings: 12

• 4 ripe peaches , about 1 1/4 lbs (choice of fruit, use plums, nectarines, apples or pears)
• ¾ cup butter , softened
• 1 ½ cups granulated sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
• 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
• 1 ½ teaspoons ground ginger
• ¾ teaspoon salt
• 1 ½ cups sour cream

Streusel

• 1⁄3; cup packed brown sugar
• ¼ cup all-purpose flour
• ¼ cup chopped almonds
• 2 tablespoons finely chopped crystallized ginger
• 2 tablespoons cold butter , diced

Directions:

1. Peel peaches, (but not plums or nectarines, if using).
2. Cut fruit in half and remove pits.
3. Place, cut side down, on cutting board, slice thinly; set aside.
4. In a large bowl, beat butter with sugar until light and fluffy.
5. Beat in eggs, one at a time, beat in vanilla.
6. In a separate bowl, whisk together, flour, baking powder, baking soda, ginger and salt; stir into butter mixture alternately with sour cream, making 3 additions of dry ingredients and 2 of sour cream.
7. Spread batter evenly in greased 13 x 9-inch cake pan.
8. Without overlapping, arrange sliced fruit attractively over top.
9. Streusel: In a bowl, mix together sugar, flour, almonds and ginger with pastry blender of 2 knives, cut in butter until crumbly.
10. Sprinkle evenly over fruit.
11. Bake in centre of 350°F oven for about 1 hour or until cake tester inserted in centre comes out clean.
12. Let cool in pan on rack.

Reviews

[LAURIE]

Dorothy..another super recipe! I used apples in one and added some cinnamone and then made another using frozen peaches! Too good and the streusel is wonderful! TY

[Ginger Rose]

Lovely cake! It rose really high so the pieces were very big :). The ginger lifted it to something out of the ordinary. Thanks for posting this recipe!

[Molly53]

Went over very well at the office potluck today.