The Manly Coffee Cake
From jo_jo_ba 16 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 12
A sweet, fruited coffee cake made with a cup of great beer added in! The beer gives it a good depth of flavour without being overbearing.
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup dried apricots, soaked in hot water, drained and chopped shopping list
- 1 cup flour shopping list
- 1 cup whole-wheat flour (pastry if you have it, regular if not) shopping list
- 2 teaspoons baking powder shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon salt shopping list
- 4 eggs, at room temperature shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar shopping list
- 2 tsp almond extract shopping list
- 1 tsp vanilla extract shopping list
- 2 Tbsp apricot or apple puree shopping list
- 1 cup McAuslan Apricot Wheat ale (or other fruited beer) shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Grease and flour a Bundt cake pan.
- Sprinkle 1/2 of the apricots along the bottom of the cake pan.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flours, baking powder, and salt, set aside.
- Beat eggs on high speed until thick and light in color, about 3 to 5 minutes.
- Beat in sugar until combined, then add almond and vanilla extracts.
- Fold flour mixture into egg and sugar mixture.
- Heat beer just until bubbles begin to rise around the edge of the pan. Add fruit puree and remove from heat.
- Add batter, stirring gently to combine.
- Pour 1/2 the batter into the prepared pan.
- Sprinkle 1/2 the remaining apricots over batter.
- Top with last of batter.
- Sprinkle the chopped apricots over the top of the batter.
- Bake 30 minutes. Do not over-bake.
- Cool on rack for 30 minutes.
- Invert onto a large platter and let cool to room temperature.
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