Strawberry cream cheese coffee cake recipe

Fresh Ripe Strawberries

Delicious coffee cake, filled with strawberry and cream cheese, and topped with almond struesel. Baked in a springform pan, this beautiful strawberry coffee cake will be a show stopper at any brunch or picnic!

Strawberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake Recipe

• 4 1/2 cups unbleached white or whole wheat flour, sifted
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 1 1/2 cups butter, cool not chilled
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 1/4 cups sour cream
• 2 large eggs
• 2 tsp almond extract
• 1 pound cream cheese, softened
• 2/3 cup white sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 1/4 cup strawberry filling or seedless jam
• 1 cup almonds, sliced and toasted lightly
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1 Tbsp milk
• 1/4 tsp almond extract

How to Make Strawberry Cream Cheese Coffeecake

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and prepare pans. This recipe uses 2) 9 inch springform pans. Take the pans apart and cover the bottoms with a piece of aluminum foil. Put the pans back together and spray the sides and bottoms generously with vegetable spray.
• Step One: In a high-speed mixing bowl, and using the paddle attachment, mix the flour, sugar and cool butter together until it is dry and resembles fine struesel. It should not clump up in a ball. Measure out 2 cups and set this aside.
• Step Two: Using the same mixer bowl with the remaining struesel mix, add baking power, baking soda, salt and sour cream and blend well. Add 2 eggs and almond extract. Beat only until batter is smooth. Divide this batter between the 2 greased springform pans. Pat thick on the bottom and about 3/4 of the way up the sides. Clean mixing bowl.
• Step Three: In the clean bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar. Add eggs and beat until light and fluffy. Divide the batter equally and pour on top of the crusts.
• Step Four: In each pan, spread 1/2 cup strawberry filling very gently over the cream cheese batter, being careful not to disturb it. Mix almonds with the 2 cups of streusel that was set aside at the beginning. Carefully sprinkle struesel over each coffee cake, spreading evenly.
• Place both coffee cakes in 350 degree oven and bake for 50-60 minutes or until middle is set.
• Cool completely before removing rings.
• Carefully slide cooled coffee cake off bottom onto flat cake plate.
• Step Five: Mix confectioners' sugar, milk and almond extract together and drizzle over cooled cake.
• Refrigerate before slicing for best results.
• Makes 2) 9 inch coffee cakes. Recipe can be divided in half to make 1) 9 inch coffee cake. Freezes well.