Walnut Cranberry Coffee Cake Food

CRANBERRY WALNUT CRUMB CAKES

Steps:

• Make the Cake. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Line the muffin tins with paper liners.
• In a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment (or using a hand mixer), cream the butter until smooth. While the mixer is running, slowly add the sugar. Add the eggs one at a time, waiting for each to be incorporated before adding the next, and mix until light and fluffy.
• Sift together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Working in batches, add the flour mixture to the butter-sugar mixture, alternating with dollops of sour cream. Mix in the cranberries. Pour or spoon the batter into the prepared tins, filling them no more than 3/4 full.
• Make the Topping: Combine the brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon in a medium bowl. Add the butter pieces and, using your fingertips, pinch the ingredients together into a sandy, crumbly mixture. Add the walnuts and mix. Sprinkle the mixture over the cakes.
• Bake until risen and browned, about 20 to 25 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes in the pan.

CRANBERRY WALNUT UPSIDE DOWN CAKE

Steps:

• Make topping:
• Melt butter in skillet over moderate heat, then swirl to coat bottom and side of skillet and stir in brown sugar. Simmer, stirring, until sugar is dissolved, 1 to 2 minutes, then sprinkle cranberries and walnuts evenly over butter mixture and remove from heat.
• Make cake:
• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F.
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Beat together butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at high speed until light and fluffy, 4 to 6 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Reduce speed to low and add flour mixture alternately in batches with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture and mixing until just combined. (Do not overmix.)
• Bake cake:
• Heat topping in skillet over moderately high heat until it starts to bubble, then gently spoon batter over topping and spread evenly. Quickly transfer to oven; bake until cake is golden brown and a wooden skewer comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. Cool cake in pan on a rack 15 minutes. Run a thin knife around inside edge of pan, then invert a serving plate over pan and invert cake onto plate. Cool completely on plate on rack, 1 hour. Serve cake at room temperature.

CRANBERRY-NUT COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°F. Grease square pan, 9x9x2 inches.
• Stir Bisquick, granulated sugar, 2/3 cup water and egg in medium bowl until blended; beat vigorously 30 seconds. Spread in pan. Mix brown sugar, walnuts and cinnamon; sprinkle over batter. Spoon cranberry sauce over top.
• Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in cake area comes out clean.
• Stir remaining ingredients until smooth and thin enough to drizzle. Drizzle over cake; serve warm.

PRETTY CRANBERRY COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in extract. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream, beating well after each addition., Spoon a third of the batter into a greased 9-in. square baking pan. Top with a third of the cranberry sauce. Repeat layers twice. Sprinkle with walnuts. , Bake 60-65 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in cake portion comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack., For glaze, in a small bowl, mix confectioners' sugar, extract and enough water to reach a drizzling consistency. Spoon over cooled coffee cake.