Streusel Apple Coffeecake

Description

Wonderfully moist coffee cake with a layer of apples and streusel in the middle and more streusel on top. Very good.

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ cups packed light brown sugar
  • ¾ cup all-purpose flour
  • ½ cup butter, chilled and diced
  • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts
  • 3 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
  • ¾ teaspoon baking soda
  • ¾ cup butter, room temperature
  • 1 ½ cups white sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 16 ounces plain low-fat yogurt
  • 2 Granny Smith apples – peeled, cored and finely diced

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9- or 10-inch Bundt pan.
  2. Make streusel: Mix together brown sugar
  3. flour
  4. and cinnamon in a medium bowl. Cut in butter with a fork until crumbly. Stir in walnuts and set aside.
  5. Make cake: Stir together flour
  6. baking powder
  7. and baking soda in a medium bowl; set aside. Cream together sugar and butter in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs
  8. one at a time
  9. mixing well after each addition. Stir in yogurt and vanilla. Stir in flour mixture just until blended.
  10. Pour 3 cups batter into the prepared Bundt pan. Sprinkle with 1/4 of the streusel
  11. then layer with apples. Sprinkle with 1/2 of the remaining streusel. Pour in remaining batter and top with remaining streusel. Lightly pat down top layer of streusel into batter.
  12. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean
  13. 50 to 60 minutes. Cool in the pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes. Place cookie sheet over the pan and carefully invert both. Remove Bundt pan; let cake cool completely.

Prep Time: 30 mins

Cook Time: 1 hr

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Servings: 16

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