Cranberry-Walnut Coffee Cake

Description

A moist coffee cake filled with cranberries and nuts and covered with glaze.

Ingredients

  • 1 (14 ounce) can whole cranberry sauce
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts, divided
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • ½ cup butter, at room temperature
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1 teaspoon almond extract
  • ¾ cup powdered sugar
  • 1 tablespoon warm water
  • ½ teaspoon almond extract

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter and flour a fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®).
  2. Put cranberry sauce in a bowl and crush the berries with a fork or the back of a spoon. Remove half of the crushed berries to a small bowl and mix in 1/2 cup walnuts. Set both bowls aside.
  3. Combine sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Add eggs
  4. 1 at a time
  5. beating well after each addition.
  6. Sift together flour
  7. baking powder
  8. baking soda
  9. and salt in a bowl. Add flour mixture in 2 batches to sugar-butter mixture
  10. alternating with sour cream
  11. beating batter briefly after each addition. Mix in 1 teaspoon almond extract and remaining 1/2 cup chopped walnuts.
  12. Spread 1/2 of the cake batter into the prepared pan. Layer with reserved cranberry sauce and top with remaining cake batter. Pour cranberry-walnut mixture over top.
  13. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean
  14. 50 to 55 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Invert carefully onto a serving plate or cooling rack.
  15. Mix together powdered sugar
  16. warm water
  17. and almond extract for the glaze. Drizzle over cake.

Prep Time: 25 mins

Cook Time: 50 mins

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins

Servings: 12

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