Coffee-cake with cherries
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Refreshing coffee-cake with light cherry sourness. At the beginning I was afraid that the recipe uses too much cherries, but when we tasted this coffee-cake we understood that the balance of sweetness and sourness is just perfect.
Coffee-cake with cherries
Time needed:
Yields: 8 servings
Calories: 465 kcal / serving
Ingredients:
- 150 g butter or margarine
- 150 ml water
- 3 eggs
- 400 ml sugar
- 450 ml all-purpose flour (I used a little bit more)
- 4 tsps. baking powder
- 450 g pitted cherries, fresh or frozen (I used frozen and didn’t defrost them before baking)
- 2 tbsps. potato starch
- 2-3 drops almond essence (optional)
Directions:
- Melt the butter.
- Beat eggs with sugar.
- Mix cherries with starch.
- Alternately mix eggs mixture, baking powder and flour mixture, butter, water and almond essence.
- Mix in cherries.
- Pour dough to the baking form that is buttered and sprinkled with dried bread crumbs.
- Bake in the oven at 175°C 40 minutes.
- Then low down the heat to 150°C and bake 40 minutes more.
- Let sit coffee-cake 20 minutes before taking out of the form.
- Enjoy!
Source: Lengvi receptai III (Laisvos valandos, 2009)