Cherry-nut Coffee Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 55 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1 box confectioners' sugar
• 2 teaspoons almond extract
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 3 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 cup maraschino cherry, drained and chopped
• 1/2 cup nuts, chopped
• melted butter
• cinnamon
• sugar

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 in a small bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
• 3 in a large bowl, combine butter and confectioner's sugar; cream well.
• 4 add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• 5 stir in almond extract.
• 6 blend in flour mixture alternating with milk.
• 7 fold in maraschino cherries and nuts.
• 8 spoon batter evenly into a well-greased and floured tube pan (10" will work but better if a little smaller).
• 9 bake 55 minutes.
• 10 cool for 5 minutes.
• 11 brush melted butter on the top of the cake and sprinkle with a cinnamon sugar mixture (amount depends on how thick a cinnamon sugar mixture you'd like. i put a lot of butter on top so that i can get a nice layer of cinnamon sugar).
• 12 cool 20 minutes and carefully remove from pan so as not to disturb your cinnamon sugar topping.
• 13 cool completely.