Cherry Crumb Coffee Cake (Healthier Version)
- 1 tablespoon butter, unsalted melted
- 1 tablespoon canola oil or olive oil
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 large eggs
- 1/2 cup yogurt, low-fat plain, or low fat sour cream
- 2 tablespoons milk, low-fat
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 18 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons whole wheat flour
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoons butter
- 2 teaspoons canola oil or olive oil
- 1/4 cup walnuts chopped
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- 2 cups cherries black, sweet, pitted, fresh or frozen, coarsely chopped
- 1 tablespoon orange juice
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon zest freshly grated
- 18 teaspoon almond extract
- For cherry filling:
- Combine sugar and cornstarch in a medium nonreactive saucepan.
- Stir in cherries, orange juice, lemon zest and almond extract.
- Bring to a boil over medium-high heat and cook, stirring occasionally, until the mixture looks like very thick jam and has reduced to about 1 cup, 5 to 7 minutes.
- Remove from heat and set aside.
- For topping:
- Combine all ingredients except butter and nuts in a small mixing bowl.
- Cut in butter and stir in nuts.
- Set aside.
- Preheat oven to 350F (180C).
- For cake batter:
- In mixing bowl, mix together butter, oil and sugar until well combined.
- Whisk in egg, yogurt, milk, vanilla and almond extract until well blended.
- In another large mixing bowl, whisk together whole wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- Pour liquid mixture into flour mixture, and stir with wooden spatula until just incorporated and moistened.
- Spread half batter in well greased 8 by 8-inch sqaure baking pan.
- Spread cherry pie filling over batter.
- Cover with remaining batter.
- Sprinkle topping over batter.
- Bake at 350F (180C) about 45 minutes until cake springs back when lightly pressed with finger.
- Cool on wire rack.
- Serve warm, at room temperature or chilled.
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Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/cherry-crumb-coffee-cake-health-53843 (may not work)