Buttermilk-apple Coffee Cake

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 1/2 cups thinly sliced granny smith apples
• 3 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 cup granulated sugar
• 2 tablespoons butter, softened
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• cooking spray
• 3 tablespoons sliced almonds
• 1/4 cup powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon buttermilk
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°.
• 2 to prepare the cake, combine the first 4 ingredients in a small saucepan over med-high heat. cook 5 minutes or until syrupy, stirring; cool.
• 3 spoon the flour into a dry measuring cup.
• 4 combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl, stirring well with a whisk.
• 5 combine granulated sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until well blended; add the egg and extracts, beating well.
• 6 add the flour mixture to sugar mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mix; beat well after each addition.
• 7 spoon the batter into 8 inch round cake pan coated with cooking spray.
• 8 arrange apple mixture over cake; top with almonds.
• 9 bake at 350° for 25 minutes or until cake begins to pull away from sides of pan.
• 10 cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
• 11 quickly invert cake onto wire rack, then invert onto serving plate.
• 12 prepare the glaze and drizzle over cake.
• 13 serve warm.