Strawberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake
Strawberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake is a wonderfully moist and tender coffee cake with chopped fresh strawberries, pockets of cream cheese, and an almond brown sugar topping.
Servings: 9
Equipment
Ingredients
Batter
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 1¼ cups granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup milk
- 8 ounces cream cheese, cut into cubes
Topping
- 1½ cups sliced strawberries
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- pinch of salt
- 3 tablespoons softened butter
- ¼ cup sliced almonds
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray a 9-inch square baking dish with cooking spray.
- Make topping. Stir together flour, granulated sugar, brown sugar and salt in a small bowl. Cut in the butter until crumbly. Set aside.
- Make batter. Use an electric mixer to beat butter and sugar until fluffy.
- Beat in eggs one at a time.Add almond extract.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Add flour mixture to butter mixture, alternating with milk. Add flour in 3 additions and milk in 2, beating on LOW speed just until incorporated.
- Fold in the cream cheese cubes.Transfer batter to prepared baking dish. Scatter strawberries on top.
- Sprinkle topping evenly on top.Bake for 50 to 55 minutes. Scatter almonds on top when there is about 15 minutes of baking time left.
- Let cool at least 15 minutes before slicing.