Cherry Coffee Cake is a dessert or breakfast pastry that is easy to make and delicious served warm or at room temperature. It keeps well covered on the counter for three or four days.
A pine nut (if you choose to use them rather than almonds), though looked on as a nut in the culinary sense, is actually a seed. They have a delicate, nutty flavour, particularly if toasted, and are also known as pine seeds, pine kernels, pinon and pinoli. They make a friendly substitution in this recipe for almonds, if you or a prospective diner have tree nut allergies.
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Easy Cherry Coffee Cake
Ingredients
- 2 1/4 cup flour
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 3/4 cup butter
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 egg
- 3/4 cup buttermilk - can substitute soured milk
- 19 oz cherry pie filling - typically one can
- 1/3 cup almonds - sliced – I have also substituted pine nuts for almonds for people with allergies to tree nuts
Optional
- 1 tsp almond extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F (175C).
- Combine flour and sugar in a large bowl.
- Cut in butter with a pastry blender or two knives until mixture is crumbly.
- Set aside 1/2 cup of mixture for topping.
- Add baking soda and baking powder to remainder.
- Beat together egg, buttermilk, and almond extract (if using), and add to dry ingredients, stirring until just moistened.
- Spread two thirds of the batter over the bottom and partway up the side of a greased 8 1/2 inch (21 cm) or 9 inch (23 cm) springform pan.
- Spoon pie filling evenly over the batter.
- Drop small spoonfuls of the remaining batter over the filling.
- Stir almonds (or pine nuts) into the reserved crumbled mixture, and sprinkle over the batter.
- Bake 65-75 minutes for the 8 1/2 inch pan, or 50 -60 minutes for the 9 inch pan, or until cake tester inserted into the centre comes out clean.
Variation
- Blueberry or mixed-berry pie filler can be substituted for cherry for another taste.