Persimmon Walnut Coffee Cake Food

WALNUT COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream the cream cheese, butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and baking soda; add to the creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition. Stir in walnuts. Pour into a greased 13x9-in. baking pan., For the topping, combine the flour, sugar and cinnamon; cut in butter until coarse crumbs form. Stir in walnuts. Sprinkle over coffee cake. , Bake at 350° for 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Serve warm.

PERSIMMON COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Cream butter, sour cream, vanilla persimmon pulp, sugar and eggs together.
• Add flour, baking powder, salt and mix well.
• Mix topping ingredients and set aside.
• Spread half of the batter into a greased tube pan; sprinkle half of topping mixture over batter.
• Spread remaining half of batter into pan and add remainder of topping.
• Bake at 350 degrees until done about 30 minutes but this will depend on the moisture content of the persimmons.

CHUNKY CHOCOLATE-WALNUT COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Grease 10-inch tube pan.
• In small bowl, combine topping ingredients; set aside.
• Beat butter and sugar in large bowl until light and fluffy.
• Beat in eggs, sour cream and vanilla until well mixed.
• Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in bowl.
• On low speed add flour mixture to batter, beating until smooth.
• Spoon 1/3 (about 2 cups) of the batter into prepared pan, spreading evenly.
• Sprinkle with 1/3 of the topping (scant 1 cup).
• Repeat layering 2 more times.
• Bake 55 to 65 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool in pan on wire rack for 20 minutes.
• Remove from pan.

WALNUT COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Grease two 8x8 square pans (or two 8" rounds, or one 9x13).
• Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda& salt together; set aside.
• Cream margarine and the 1cup sugar until light & fluffy.
• Add eggs& vanilla; beat thoroughly.
• Blend in sour cream alternately with flour mixture; stir in nuts.
• Divide& spread batter evenly in pan (s).
• Combine topping ingredients& sprinkle on top of batter.
• Bake at 350 for 35-40 minutes (40-45 if using 9x13).
• Notes: Topping is very crumbly; it can be used as streusel in middle of cake if desired.
• Also, this cake freezes well!

COFFEE & WALNUT CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Butter 2 x 20cm springform cake tins and line with baking parchment. Set aside 2 tbsp of the coffee for the filling.
• Beat the butter, flour, sugar, baking powder, eggs, vanilla and half the remaining coffee in a large bowl with an electric whisk until lump-free. Fold in the finely chopped walnuts, then divide between the tins and roughly spread. Scatter the roughly chopped walnuts over one of the cakes. Bake the cakes for 25-30 mins until golden and risen, and a skewer poked in comes out clean. Drizzle the plain cake with the remaining coffee. Cool the cakes in the tins.
• Meanwhile, make the filling: beat together the icing sugar, cream and mascarpone, then fold in the reserved 2 tbsp coffee. Spread over the plain cake, then cover with the walnut-topped cake and dust with a little icing sugar.

BANANA WALNUT COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Butter a 10 inch tube pan; dust with flour, tapping out excess, and set aside.
• Combine walnuts, sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl.
• Set aside.
• To make banana batter, sift together the flour, baking powder and salt onto a sheet of waxed paper.
• Set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream the butter with an electric mixer on high until light. Gradually beat in the eggs, one at a time. Beat in sour cream, mashed bananas and vanilla.
• Change mixer speed to low and beat in the flour mixture just until blended.
• Spoon half of the batter into the prepared pan.
• Scatter half of the walnut and sugar sprinkle over the batter.
• Thinly slice the third banana over the batter.
• Top with remaining batter and scatter rest of walnut and sugar sprinkle over top.
• Bake about 1 hour and 15 minutes, when skewer inserted comes out clean.
• Cool in pan on rack for 20 minutes. Carefully loosen the cake from the sides then invert onto wire rack turning right side up.
• Sprinkle with confectioners sugar, if desired.

BOOZY COFFEE & WALNUT CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Butter two 20cm sandwich tins and line with non-stick baking paper. Toast the walnut halves in the oven for 10 mins. Reserve 10 and chop the rest. Dissolve the instant coffee in 1 tbsp of boiling water, cool and add the basic cake mix (see recipe for Classic Victoria sponge, right), instead of the milk.
• For the filling, beat the mascarpone with the light muscovado sugar and Tia Maria until smooth. Sandwich the cooled cakes with a third of the filling and the chopped walnuts.
• Cover the top and sides of the cake with the rest of the filling and decorate the top with the toasted walnut halves.

PERSIMMON-WALNUT COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F.
• Grease and flour a 9" springform pan.
• Mix brown sugar and 1 Tbs flour in a small bowl.
• Press persimmons into a pulp into the bowl and mix.
• (see above comments.) In a medium bowl mix together 2 cups flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt.
• In a large bowl beat butter with an electric beater in medium-high for 20 seconds.
• Mix in sugar and vanilla.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each.
• Add flour mixture and sour cream to the butter mixture, alternately, beating until just combined after each addition.
• (Your batter will be stiff) Spread half of batter into pan, building up a 1" rim of batter around the edges.
• Pour persimmon mixture into this crust.
• Carefully spoon remaining batter in small mounds to cover persimmon mixture.
• For Walnut Streusel: In a medium bowl stir together flour, sugar and cinnamon.
• Cut in butter until mixture resembles course crumbs.
• Stir in walnuts.
• Sprinkle this over your batter.
• Bake about 1 hour or until toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
• The filling will sink as the cake bakes.
• Cool in pan on a rack for 10 minutes.
• Remove springform sides.
• Let cool completely on rack.