Apricot Cream Cheese Coffee Cake

One of the activities I signed on for this year as part of the PTA was to provide a baked good on Valentine’s Day for a teacher at my daughter’s elementary school. Sweets for the Sweet is our school’s way of thanking the teachers for all their hard work.

So, in order to provide a tasty baked good for one lucky teacher I started doing some surfing to find a good recipe. I discovered Dessert First Girl and her Apricot Crumb Coffee Cake. Dessert First Girl is very impressive….she is actually trained in all things pastry, is a food writer and has written cookbooks! I am in serious awe.

I decided to attempt her coffee cake recipe, although I made a couple of small changes based on the fact that I am lazy and was missing an ingredient or two. So, I encourage you to head over to Dessert First Girl and see her version of this recipe but below is what I made tonight.

This coffee cake is not overly sweet, which I prefer. The recipe is fairly easy to make, too, although all three steps required my Kitchenaid mixer which meant washing it several times but the final product was well worth the extra work.  If you want more coffee cake recipes, check out my blueberry ricotta cheese coffee cake. 

 

Apricot Cream Cheese Coffee Cake

Yield: 8

Apricot Cream Cheese Coffee Cake

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Lightly sweet with a touch of fruit and spice

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 40 minutes

Total Time 1 hour

Ingredients

• Cake
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1/4 cup milk
• 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Cream Cheese Filling
• 8 oz cream cheese, room temperature
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• About 10 dried apricots, diced into small pieces
• Streusel Crumb Topping
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold, cut into 1-in pieces

Instructions

2. For the cake: In a small bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt.
3. In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar until smooth (about 3 minutes). Add the egg,mixing until smooth.
4. Combine the milk and vanilla in a glass measuring cup
5. To the mixer with the butter and sugar, add the four mixture alternating with milk/vanilla. Stir only until combined.
6. Spread the batter in a 9 inch spring form pan that has been sprayed with non stick spray and dusted with flour.
7. For the Cream Cheese layer: In a mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese, sugar and egg until smooth. Stir in the dried apricots and spread over the batter in the spring form pan.
8. For the Streusal Crumb Topping: Combine the flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Mix in the cold butter until crumbly and mixture holds together if pressed gently between fingers. Sprinkle the streusal topping on top of the cream cheese layer.
9. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 35 to 40 minutes or until a knife inserted into the middle comes out clean.
10. Cool before removing from the pan.

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