Apricot Almond Coffee Cake

My thoughts: Right away I wasn't jazzed about this. The next day I said "hey, this is better than yesterday." Today is day three and this cake is awesome. Let it sit. I promise you...it will be awesome if you just let it sit.


1/2 cup butter, softened
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup sugar
2 large eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 cup sour cream = I FORGOT THIS and it was still good
1 1/2 cups apricot preserves (
crumble topping (recipe follows)

Preheat oven to 350. Spray a 13x9-inch baking pan with nonstick cooking spray.
In a large bowl, beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with mixer until blended. Add sugar, beating until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and nutmeg. Gradually add to butter mixture, beating until just combined. Stir in sour cream. Spread half of batter in prepared pan. Gently spread preserves over batter. Drop remaining batter by tablespoonfuls over preserves. Sprinkle with crumble topping. Bake for 30 minutes to 35 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Let cool for 30 minutes before cutting.

crumble topping
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup sliced almonds

In a small bowl, combine flour and brown sugar. Using a pastry blender cut in butter until mixture is crumbly. Stir in almonds.

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• Apricot
• Almond
• Coffee
• Cake
• coffeecake
• instructions
• recipe

[misty420luvsfrogs]

this was a hit at my house

[Ultimatecruegirl]

This looked so good and I'm not really an apricot fan. Not that I don't like them I'm just kind of meh about them. But I think I might give this a try for the next get together with the girls. It's perfect as I can make it a couple days ahead.

The girls and I say thank you ;)

[anmoose]

I would've been SO pissed, finding the left over sour cream after the fact. And that dough looked totally lost in the 9x13. Maybe the sour cream would've made it spread better?

Seems like in spite of it all, it still came out great.

[dreamer72fem]

I could so eat a piece right now:)

[MouseChirpy]

This looks fantastic! I love apricot preserves. Over the years, I really haven't seen many recipes using it as an ingredient. Another must try! Mahalo!

[yoyomax12]

I'm going to post a video soon called "French apple pie" I should call it French apple pie 2, because the first time I made and filmed it, I forgot to add the eggs!! I had French apple crumble-like dessert.

This looks really good, I like apricots. The last photo was "recipe book" perfect.

[COOLIKEDATAZIAN]

I just did her pound cake last night and it tasted so good!! I wish I filmed it, but it was a dry run LOL! Next time! That looks good, I might have to try it.

[Carballoca]

It looked really good was I just thinking bet it would be killer with blackberry jam too pkus the sour cream...lol I hate when I forget to put stuff in at least you could still finish it and it was ok I would have to do it again to see what it was supposed to taste like in a few days though...lol

[wildheart5]

LOL@ beat it senseless!!! When I leave something out I get just as irritated at myself as you do. I think the sour cream was just for a little zing. That came out looking great and I just love apricot! Was it as good as it looks? Yum!

[WackaDoodleFreeZone]

Yum :-) HUGS xo