Streusel Topped Fruit Brunch Cake Recipes

CHEX® AND FRUIT BRUNCH CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Spray with cooking spray or grease 8-inch square pan. In large bowl, stir together 2 cups cereal and the orange juice; let stand about 2 minutes or until cereal is soft. Stir in oil, bananas and egg. Stir in flour, sugar, raisins, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Spread in pan.
• Bake about 45 minutes or until top springs back when touched lightly in center. Meanwhile, coarsely crush 1/2 cup cereal. Mix with remaining streusel topping ingredients until crumbly; sprinkle evenly over warm cake.
• Set oven control to broil. Broil cake with top about 5 inches from heat about 1 minute or until bubbly. (Watch carefully to avoid burning.) Serve warm.

STREUSEL-TOPPED FRUIT BRUNCH CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Heat oven to 350°. Grease bottom and sides of square pan, 9 x 9 x 2 inches, with shortening. Mix cereal and orange juice in large bowl let stand about 2 minutes or until cereal is soft. Stir in oil, egg and bananas. Stir in flour, sugar, raisins, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Spread in pan.2. Bake about 45 minutes or until top springs back when touched lightly in center. While cake is baking, make Streusel Topping.3. Set oven control to broil. Sprinkle topping evenly over warm cake. Broil with top about 5 inches from heat about 1 minute or until bubbly (watch carefully to avoid burning).Streusel Topping: Coarsely crush cereal. Mix cereal and remaining ingredients until crumbly.A NOTE from DR. GHOSHDid you know that breakfast cereals, like Chex®, are a great source of iron? We need iron for proper oxygen transfer in our blood to keep us healthy."Close friends make coffee cake and bring it over it makes all of us feel great. I get to enjoy tasty food, and they really are doing me an important favor. My family loves the treats, too." -Anne R.NUTRITION FACTS: High in iron1 Serving: Calories 255 (Calories from Fat 65) Fat 7g (Saturated 2g) Cholesterol 25mg Sodium 270mg Potassium 180mg Carbohydrate 46g (Dietary Fiber 2g) Protein 4g % DAILY VALUE: Vitamin A 2% Vitamin C 8% Calcium 4% Iron 20% Folic Acid 10% Magnesium 6% DIET EXCHANGES: 1 ½ Starch, 1 ½ Fruit, 1 FatFrom "Betty Crocker's Living with Cancer Cookbook." Text Copyright 2005 General Mills, Inc. Used with permission of the publisher, Wiley Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

STREUSEL TOPPED TRIPLE BERRY COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, stir together flour, sugar, baking powder and cinnamon.
• In a small bowl, mix egg, melted butter, milk and vanilla.
• Stir liquids into dry ingredients just till blended.
• In a buttered 9-inch square pan, spread half of dough.
• Top with berry mixture and spoon remaining dough over berries.
• In a separate bowl combine brown sugar, flour, cinnamon and nuts.
• Stir in melted butter until mixture resembles moist crumbs.
• Sprinkle this over top of dough and press in lightly.
• Bake in a 375° oven 40 minutes or until topping is golden brown.

BLUEBERRY STREUSEL CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle. Line bottom and sides of a 9-inch square baking pan with heavy-duty foil, leaving an overhang on 2 sides. Butter bottom and sides of pan, then dust with flour, knocking out excess.
• Make streusel topping:
• Stir together flour, sugars, cinnamon, and a pinch of salt in a large bowl. Blend in butter with your fingertips or a pastry blender until mixture forms large clumps.
• Make cake:
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.
• Stir together sour cream and vanilla in a small bowl.
• Beat together butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add egg and beat until well blended.
• At low speed, mix in flour mixture in 3 batches, alternating with sour-cream mixture and mixing until just combined.
• Gently fold in blueberries.
• Spoon batter into pan, smoothing top (preferably with an offset spatula). Crumble half of topping evenly over batter.
• Bake 25 minutes, then remove from oven and crumble remaining topping evenly over cake. Bake until a wooden pick inserted into center comes out clean, about 25 minutes more. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Lift out cake using foil and cool completely on rack.