Almond-Berry Coffee Cake
From Martha Stewart
Serves 10 to 12
Ingredient
For the Cake
Vegetable oil, cooking spray
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
6 ounces (about 1 1/2 cups)
raspberries
2/3 cup blackberry jam
3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks)
unsalted butter, softened
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
1 1/4 teaspoons finely
grated lemon zest
3 large eggs
2 teaspoons pure vanilla
extract
1 1/4 cups sour cream
For the Topping
1 cup all-purpose flour
2/3 cup packed light-brown
sugar
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup sliced almonds,
toasted
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted
butter, softened
1/4 teaspoon pure almond
extract
Method
Preheat oven to 350°F. Make the topping: Whisk flour, brown
sugar, cinnamon, salt, and almonds in a medium bowl. Using your
fingers, work in butter until mixture forms coarse crumbs ranging in
size from small peas to marbles. Sprinkle with almond extract; toss to
combine.
Make the cake: Use cooking spray to coat a 10-inch tube pan with a
removable bottom. Place pan on a baking sheet. Sift together flour,
baking powder, baking soda, and salt into a medium bowl. Fold
raspberries into jam in a small bowl.
Put butter, sugar, and zest into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted
with the paddle attachment. Mix on medium-high speed until pale and
fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes. Reduce speed to medium. Add eggs, 1 at a time,
beating well after each addition and scraping down sides of bowl as
needed. Mix in vanilla. Reduce speed to low. Mix in half the reserved
flour mixture, followed by the sour cream. Add remaining flour mixture;
beat until just combined.
Spoon half the batter into prepared pan. Mound berry mixture in a ring
in center of batter. Top with remaining batter. Using a small offset
spatula, smooth top. Sprinkle with the topping.
Bake until golden brown and a toothpick inserted into center comes out
clean, 65 to 70 minutes. Let cool slightly on a wire rack, 10 to 15
minutes. Run a knife around edges of pan to loosen. Pull up on tube to
lift cake from pan. Let cool on rack 15 minutes. Invert cake onto a
baking sheet, removing tube portion, then reinvert onto rack to cool
completely.
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