Cherry Almond Breakfast Cake

Moist as well as tender alongside a sugariness crackly top, our Cherry Almond Breakfast Cake is a groovy agency to relish the curt as well as delicious cherry season!

We only can’t assistance ourselves. We adore elementary piffling cakes loaded alongside fresh fruit! Cherries are absolutely perfect inwards this sort of cake because of their firm, but juicy texture, size as well as flavor. The cherries don’t melt away as well as disappear into the cake hence you’ll larn plenty of flavor inwards every bite. With hints of almond from the extract as well as sliced almond topping, this simple, no-mixer required cake has received groovy reviews as well as numerous recipe requests.

 

Lightly sweetened breakfast cakes made alongside fresh seasonal fruit are a welcome process inwards our house.

No affair what fourth dimension of year, I bet you lot tin uncovering a delicious, unmarried layer breakfast cake inwards our archives to lucifer your needs. Blueberry Breakfast Cake has e'er been a favorite that everyone loves, every bit good every bit our Lemon Crumble Breakfast Cake. All our breakfast cakes are piece of cake to make, alongside no mixer required! Some convey a rich sour cream batter, piece others are made alongside buttermilk as well as nosotros fifty-fifty convey i made alongside raspberries as well as ricotta cheese. Scroll through our CAKE archives to meet all our elementary as well as delicious cake recipes. They’re perfect for whatever fourth dimension of day, but specially wonderful served slightly warm for brunch alongside tea or coffee.

 

Our Cherry Almond Breakfast Cake has a terrific texture that starts alongside a rich batter that’s thick plenty to back upwards chopped fruit.

While folding together the dry out as well as moisture ingredients, you lot may mean value the mixture is every bit good dry. But that’s non the case! Keep folding the batter gently as well as it volition come upwards together. It volition seem thick, but that’s okay. It bakes upwards moist as well as low-cal as well as is only correct for belongings the fruit inwards place. You won’t uncovering all the fruit at the bottom of this cake!

 

We bake this thick cake inwards a springform pan for piece of cake removal as well as a pretty presentation.

Most of our breakfast cakes are made inwards an 8-inch springform pan but if you lot don’t convey one, no worries. You tin utilization a 9-inch springform pan, or foursquare baking pan, they’ll travel fine too.  If using a 9-inch cake pan it must hold upwards extra-deep. If baking inwards a 9-inch pan you lot tin growth the oven temperature to 350F as well as bake for a shorter time. We bake the thicker 8-inch cake at a lower temperature (325F) to ensure the middle fully bakes earlier the exterior dries out. While the cake volition hold upwards inwards the oven for over an hour, this slower bake fourth dimension is needed to ensure fifty-fifty baking throughout.

 

Change it upwards as well as add together chocolate chips!

The piffling ones beloved the cherry-chocolate combo, as well as well, I practise every bit good 🙂 Mini chocolate chips are a groovy add-on to this cherry cake recipe. Omit the almond extract, sliced almond topping as well as Kirsch, as well as crimp inwards 1 loving cup of mini semisweet chocolate chips. Top alongside a few extra chocolate chips earlier baking as well as that’s it. The mini chips are only plenty to hand you lot a overnice popular of flavor which pairs perfectly alongside the cherries. I mean value you’re going to beloved this cake as well as I can’t aspect to take heed what you lot think!

 

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Cherry Almond Breakfast Cake

Prep Time

45 mins

Cook Time

1 hr 15 mins

Total Time

2 hrs

 

Course:

Breakfast or Brunch, Dessert

Servings: 8

Author: Tricia

Ingredients

• 
  2 1/4
  cups
  all-purpose flour,
  divided
  


• 
  1/2
  teaspoon
  salt
  


• 
  2 1/2
  teaspoons
  baking powder
  


• 
  1/4
  teaspoon
  baking soda
  


• 
  3/4
  cup
  granulated sugar
  


• 
  1
  cup
  chopped fresh cherries
  (*see note) plus 1/2 loving cup halved cherries for top
  


• 
  2
  large eggs,
  lightly beaten
  


• 
  1
  cup
  sour cream
  (8-ounces)
  


• 
  1/2
  cup
  unsalted butter,
  melted as well as cooled
  


• 
  1
  teaspoon
  vanilla extract
  


• 
  1
  teaspoon
  almond extract
  


• 
  1
  tablespoons
  Kirsch
  (optional, cherry brandy)
  


• 
  2
  tablespoons
  

  sliced almonds for topping


  
  


• 
  2
  teaspoons
  coarse or granulated saccharide for topping
  

Instructions

1. 
   
   Preheat oven to 325F.
   
   


2. 
   
   Turn the base of operations of an 8-inch springform pan upside downward hence you lot tin easily slide the cake onto a serving platter. Line the bottom alongside a circular piece of parchment paper, as well as then lightly spray the pan alongside vegetable cooking spray. Set aside.
   
   


3. 
   
   In a large mixing bowl whisk together two cups of the flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda as well as 3/4 loving cup of granulated sugar. Make a good inwards the middle as well as laid aside.
   
   


4. 
   
   In a minor bowl combine 1 loving cup of the chopped cherries alongside the remaining 1/4 loving cup of flour. Toss to coat. Set aside
   
   


5. 
   
   In a separate minor mixing bowl lightly whisk the eggs. Add the sour cream, melted cooled butter, vanilla, almond extract as well as the Kirsch, if using. Fold together alongside a security spatula until blended. There may hold upwards some minor sour cream lumps, this is okay. Add the sour cream mixture to the flour as well as sugar. Fold together until the dry out ingredients are moistened. The batter volition hold upwards real thick as well as at root you lot may non mean value in that location is plenty liquid. Keep folding gently until it comes together.
   
   


6. 
   
   Gently crimp inwards the 1-cup of chopped cherries as well as whatever extra flour left inwards the bowl. Scoop the batter into the prepared pan as well as spread evenly. Allow the unbaked cake to residuum at room temperature for xv minutes earlier baking.
   
   


7. 
   

   While the unbaked cake is resting scatter the remaining 1/2 loving cup of halved cherries on top, as well as then sprinkle alongside sliced almonds as well as two teaspoons coarse or granulated sugar. Bake at 325F for 65-75 minutes or until a toothpick inserted inwards the middle comes out alongside no moisture batter; moist crumbs are good. The travel past times should hold upwards golden brown.

   
   


8. 
   

   Cool for xv earlier removing the sides of the pan. Continue to cool on a wire rack as well as serve warm or at room temperature. Delicious served warm alongside a dollop of whipped cream. Store leftovers inwards an airtight container at room temperature for upwards to three days.

   
   

Recipe Notes

* To laid upwards the cherries, withdraw the pit as well as cutting each cherry inwards half. Cut each one-half into iv pieces which is a groovy size for the fruit inwards this cake. The cherries placed on travel past times of the unbaked cake tin hold upwards cutting inwards one-half for a pretty presentation.

This recipe has non been tested alongside frozen cherries but it should hold upwards fine.

Change it upwards past times adding 1 loving cup mini-semisweet chocolate chips as well as omit the almond extract. Chocolate Cherry Breakfast Cake is a tiddler favorite!

 

To bake inwards a 9-inch pan, cut the baking fourth dimension to 50-60 minutes as well as growth the oven temperature to 350F.

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Here are a few to a greater extent than cherry recipes you lot mightiness enjoy:

 

Classic Cherry Clafoutis (pronounced “klafuti”) is a traditional French dessert alongside a thick, rich, eggy custard as well as plenty of fresh cherries. Click HERE to larn the piece of cake recipe for Cherry Clafoutis.

 

 

This summertime churn upwards a batch of our homemade fresh Cherry Ice Cream alongside nighttime chocolate! Click HERE to larn the recipe for our Cherry Ice Cream.

Thanks hence much for stopping by!  Tricia

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