Raspberry Almond Coffee Cake

Name: Raspberry Almond Coffee Cake
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 80 min
Ingredients: 1 cup All-Purpose Flour; 3/4 cup packed Light Brown Sugar; 1/2 tsp Kosher Salt; 1/2 cup Slivered Almonds, toasted, chopped; 6 Tbsp Unsalted Butter, chilled, and cut into 1/4-inch cubes; Nonstick Spray; 1 1/2 cups All-Purpose Flour; 1 Tbsp Cornmeal; 1/2 tsp Baking Powder; 1/2 tsp Baking Soda; 1/4 tsp Kosher Salt; 3/4 cup plus 3 tablespoons Sugar, divided; 6 Tbsp Unsalted Butter, room temperature ((3/4 stick)); 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract; 2 large Eggs; 1 cup Buttermilk; 1 Tbsp Ground Cinnamon; 2 cups Raspberries ((fresh or frozen will work))

Published: May 14, 2013 · Modified: Apr 16, 2021 · by Jess Smith · Jump to Recipe · 35 Comments · This post may contain affiliate links.

Raspberry Almond Coffee Cake is topped with tart raspberries and a crumb made with toasted almonds, making it perfect for breakfast or a tasty snack.

Before this, I thought that I wasn’t really a coffee cake person. It’s not that I dislike it – I mean, who doesn’t like cake for breakfast? There were just so many things I would like to have for breakfast even more. But Frank and I have fallen into a tea routine – we both drink tea like it’s going out of style. It was with all this tea drinking that made me want a cake like this one – with a light, sweet base that hints of cinnamon, tart fruit, and crumbly topping piled high.

It’s called a “coffee” cake, but it’s perfect with tea. With the sweet/sour flavor of the raspberries and the crunch in the topping, I couldn’t get enough of it.

I loved it thinly sliced with fruit on the side for breakfast, but we found ourselves sneaking oddly shaped slivers of this cake for nearly a week. It got better every day.

I’ve been thinking lately about how important it is to surprise ourselves from time to time. I gravitate so much towards routines, but it’s when I break out of them that things get interesting.

Having lived in Bangkok for two and a half years now, there’s hardly as much surprise on a daily basis as there was in the beginning. Anyone who has traveled knows that unique combination of exhaustion and energy that comes from an environment in which every sight, smell and experience is new. For the first months in Bangkok, every day surprised me.

These days, some things about Bangkok feel very familiar. Much of my life has been surrendered to routine. But from time to time I manage to surprise myself. I have a conversation with a taxi driver or order a bowl of noodles in just exactly the way I like it or I gat caught in a rainstorm while the whole city gets painted streaky shades of green.

This is the part of the expat experience that is most thrilling. Because when you’ve live in a place that is so very different from “home”, you are both satisfied when you get to know it well and continually amazed by its foreignness. Most moments are shinier somehow.

It feels a bit like summer camp – the stories you’ll tell for years about snakes in bunkhouses and staying up all night under the stars that only the handful of people who were there can ever really “get”.

Maybe that’s how I should start to think about life in Bangkok. Extended summer camp. With longer work days and fewer snakes.

Simultaneously a break from real life, and real life personified.

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