Best coffee cake ever!! Cranberry Eggnog Crumb Coffee Cake has so much flavor, is super moist, and that crumb topping is everything! A tender eggnog, vanilla cake is filled with cranberries and topped with a buttery crumb topping. A delicious treat for breakfast or dessert.
1Tablespoonpeppermint extract or 1 Tablespoon peppermint Coffee-mate liquid coffee creamer
1 and ¼cupeggnogroom temperature, or heavy cream
2 and ½cupall-purpose flour
2teaspoonbaking powder
¼teaspoonbaking soda
1Tablespoonsalt
1 and ½cupdried cranberriesyou can reduce this to 1 cup, if you preferCrumb topping:
1/2cupbrown sugar
1 and ½cupall-purpose flour
½cupbuttermelted
¼teaspoonsalt
Instructions
Spray a 10-inch springform pan with non-stick spray or coat, generously with solid vegetable shortening.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
For cake: Cream butter and sugar together until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, cream until smooth. Add vanilla, peppermint and eggnog and continue mixing until combined.
In a seperate bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
In a small bowl, cover cranberries with 1 T of the flour mixiture. Toss to coat.*
Stir the flour mixture into the sugar/egg mixture, slowly. Mix until combined.
For the crumb topping: Combine sugar, flour and salt in a bowl. Stir in the melted butter. Combine, mixture will have the texture of wet sand.
Assemble: Pour the cake batter into prepared 10-inch springform pan. Spread evenly.
Sprinkle cranberries over batter. Sprinkle crumb topping over cranberries.
Place springform pan on a cookie and into the oven. Bake 1 hour to 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Start checking cake at 55 minutes unless you know exactly how your oven bakes. It took my cake 1 hour 10 minutes, but my neighbor only baked hers for 1 hour. Every oven is different.
Remove from oven when cake test comes out clean and cake is no longer 'jiggly' in the center. Allow to cool on a wire rack. After 10 minutes, run a knife around the edge, but do not try to remove from pan until it is only slightly still warm (like an hour!)