Reviews & Comments

:-) I always make this coffeecake for Christmas morning, either the night before and refrigerate before baking in the morning or make it up and bake in the morning. I always add lowfat cream cheese in columns or spread as a layer after the dough is in the bottom of the pan, before the pie or fruit filling of my choice. This year I layered coffee cake crumble before the cream cheese, then cherry butter and sliced maraschino layer before the final spoons of dough on top and topped that off with a tiny bit of the crumble as well. AWESOME! (Don't overbake. The baking time should reflect the time it is removed from the oven when ingredients are still baking and firming. If you nderestimate the bake time by 6 minutes checking with a cake tester each 2 minutes more so you can figure in time to cool/dry. You don't want uncooked gooey batter in the middle either, but too much time in the oven and you get a very dry yucky cake :-(

Just made the half batch version with 1 tsp of lemon extract instead of using vanilla and almond extract, due to a nut allergy. I also used 3/4 of a can of lemon filling. It was done in about 23 minutes and came out delicious. The cake alone would be dry, but the filling takes care of that.

Needs extra cherry filling - and of course, cream cheese!!!!

Possible goofs on this...a 15" baking pan??? I used a 12 x 9-3/4 casserole pan. Plus,no way one can of pie filling would handle this....common sense - 4 c. Bisquick to 1 can of filling??? Well, I'm glad I had a huge jar of tart cherries in juice. I drained and added them to a can of pie filling. Thank goodness! I believe your photo must have been taken using the 9" pan with 1 can of filling....not your suggestion of preserves! Also, had to spray my hand with cooking spray in order to spread the bottom layer of batter. I will probably only make this again if I need a take along or perhaps do the 9" next time instead. Hubby who loves anything cherry and not overly sweet, loved it. It was just ok to me.

This is a poor excuse for coffee cake. Is it possible that the ingredients are listed incorrectly. The "batter" is more like a thick dough and difficult to spread. The resulting coffee cake is dry and not terribly inviting to eat. Would not make this again.