Raspberry Sour Cream Coffee Cake

Ingredients

  • 10 oz. blackberries & ½ cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1 cup cereal, like Great Grains or Granola
  • 1 tsp. cinnamon
  • 4 tbsp. lite butter 1 mashed ripe banana
  • 2 eggs
  • 2/3 cup sour cream
  • ½ cup white & ½ cup brown sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 cup white & ½ cup wheat flour
  • 1 tsp. baking powder & 1 tsp baking soda
  • 6 tbsp. lite butter, melted

Steps

  1. Preheat oven to 350 deg.
  2. Simmer blackberries, liqueur, & sugar till reduced & thick. Mash berries with a potato masher.
  3. For streusel topping, combine brown sugar, cereal, & cinnamon in small bowl. (Reserve ½ cup for cake batter.)
  4. Cut in 4 tbsp. butter & 1 tsp. vanilla into cereal in bowl. Set aside.
  5. Beat eggs till fluffy in another bowl.
  6. Add white & brown sugars, sour cream & vanilla to eggs & blend.
  7. Add butter cuts in chunks and beat in.
  8. Mix dry ingredients & ½ cup streusel topping together.
  9. Add a little at a time to wet mix.
  10. Add blackberry jam to batter by folding in just to marble and distribute.
  11. Pour batter into buttered bundt pan or spring-form pan.
  12. Sprinkle on streusel topping.
  13. Bake for 50-55 min.

**Tip: This is actually a low fat alternative to most coffee cakes, it has only 3 gms. Fat per ¾ inch slice.

Serves: 10-14

Credit: Cam Van Sant