Christmas Cranberry Almond Coffee Cake Recipes

CRANBERRY ALMOND COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• In a small bowl, cream almond paste, butter and 1/2 cup sugar until fluffy. Add two eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine 1 cup flour and baking powder; add to creamed mixture. Beat in the remaining egg and flour. Stir in extracts. Gently fold in cranberries., Spread evenly into a greased 8-in. square baking dish; sprinkle with remaining sugar. Bake at 325° for 40-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.

CRANBERRY-ALMOND COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Spray 9-inch springform pan with cooking spray. In large bowl, beat 6 tablespoons butter and 3/4 cup brown sugar with electric mixer on medium speed until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in almond extract. On low speed, beat in Bisquick mix alternately with milk until smooth. Stir in cranberries. Spread batter in pan.
• In small bowl, mix all streusel ingredients with fork until mixture is crumbly. Sprinkle over batter.
• Bake 38 to 42 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes. Remove side of pan before serving. Serve warm.

CRANBERRY COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch square baking pan.
• Combine flour, sugar, and salt in a bowl. Stir in cranberries and walnuts; toss to coat. Stir in butter, eggs, and almond extract. Spread batter into the prepared pan.
• Combine walnuts, brown sugar, butter, and flour for streusel in a small bowl. Crumble streusel on top of cranberry mixture.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 45 minutes. Serve warm or cold.

CHRISTMAS CRANBERRY ALMOND COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat over to 350 degrees F(175 degrees C). Grease one 9 inch pie pan.
• Combine flour, sugar, salt, cinnamon, clove. Mix well. Stir in cranberries and the almonds and toss to coat. Or add almonds and put berries in bottom of pie pan. Stir in butter, eggs and extracts. Spread into pie pan.
• For topping: mix sugar, flour, cinnamon, almonds. Press in soft butter until you get a crumble mixture. Put on top of batter.
• Bake for 40 minutes or until a wooden tooth pick inserted near center to come out clean. Serve warm or cold. Heats up nicely in microwave for a few seconds.
• P.S. Frozen berries last one year. Make sure to pick through your frozen berries before using. The more wrinkles on a frozen berry the older it is. The batter will be a little thicker if you use frozen cranberries. It is easier to see the bad berries if you unfreeze them in warm water.

CRANBERRY ALMOND COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream together margarine or butter and sugar. Beat in eggs, buttermilk or yogurt, and almond extract. In a separate bowl, mix together baking powder, baking soda, flour and salt. Add all at once to the wet ingredients, stirring just to blend.
• Grease and flour a tube pan. Spoon half of batter into pan. Spread half of cranberry sauce evenly atop batter, then spread remaining batter over that. Top with remaining cranberry sauce, and sprinkle toasted almonds evenly over sauce.
• Bake coffeecake in a preheated 350°F oven for 55 minutes, or until cake tests done. Remove from oven, and cool in pan for 5 minutes. While cake is cooling, make glaze by mixing the confectioners' sugar, milk and almond extract. Turn cake out of pan, and dribble glaze over warm cake. Let cake cool completely before serving (or serve it warm, if you don't mind it crumbling a bit!).