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    Home » Favorite Flavors & Ingredients » Cherry

    Cherry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake

    Published: Aug 30, 2021 · by Kim Lange · This post may contain affiliate links ·

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    Cherry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake

    You'll be over the moon with this delicious Cherry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake Recipe!  It has luscious cherry pie filling, a surprise layer of cream cheese filling, and an easy streusel crumb topping to die for!

    Serve this tempting cake with coffee or tea for breakfast, brunch, or dessert.  Cherries and cream cheese together are the bomb! We are super huge fans of cream cheese desserts!

    Who doesn't love cream cheese in dessert?  This coffee cake is total heaven!  Don't you agree? 🙂

    What you'll Love about this Cherry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake!

    • The cream cheese filling is swirled about the coffee cake and it's so creamy in each delicious bite!
    • Cherries and cream cheese go together so well!  Who can resist this delish combo?
    • With the streusel on top, it's even more tempting because it has a crunchy streusel texture and it's soooo good with the rest of the cake!
    • Perfect for weekends when you want to impress the fam!

    Ingredients You Need

    Streusel Topping

    • all purpose flour
    • brown sugar 
    • granulated sugar
    • salt
    • cinnamon
    • unsalted butter, melted

    Cream Cheese Filling

    • cream cheese, room temperature for easy mixing
    • sugar
    • egg

    Cherry Pie Filling

    • 1 - can cherry pie filling

    Coffee Cake

    • all purpose flour
    • sugar
    • cold unsalted butter, cut into ½ inch cubes
    • baking soda
    • baking powder
    • salt
    • Greek yogurt or sour cream
    • eggs
    • vanilla

    Cherry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake

    How to Make Cherry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake Recipe

    1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease an 8 or 9-inch springform pan and line the bottom with parchment paper. Set aside. I used an 8" springform pan and the coffee cake will bake clear to the top, because it's thicker. When using a springform pan, put a rimmed baking sheet underneath with foil wrapped around the bottom of the pan, just in case your pan leaks.

    Streusel Topping

    1. Whisk together the flour, sugars, salt and cinnamon together. Add melted butter and stir together. Mixture should like like wet sand and should have lots of big chunks. Do not smooth out, place in fridge until ready to use.

    Cream Cheese Filling

    1. Beat room temperature cream cheese until it's smooth. Add sugar and egg until it is combined. Set aside.

    Coffee Cake

    1. Combine flour and sugar together. Add small chunks of butter and cut it in using a pastry cutter, two forks or a food processor until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add baking soda, baking powder, salt and mix in well.
    2. In separate bowl, whisk together the yogurt/sour cream, egg and vanilla until well blended. Gently stir into the flour mixture until incorporated. The dough will be thick.
    3. Spread the batter into the bottom of prepared pan. Spread it out so the sides are about a half inch higher. Pour the cream cheese in the center, spreading it out, trying not to go past the border. Then add the cherry pie filling on top of the cream cheese filling. Take a knife and swirl through the mixture 8-10 times or so.
    4. Sprinkle the streusel on top of the whole coffee cake.
    5. Bake for 60-65 minutes for 8" and 50-55 minutes for 9" pan or until a cake tester or the tip of a knife inserted in the center comes out mostly clean. If the streusel starts browning too much, tent the top with aluminum foil.
    6. Let cake cool in pan on a wire rack for about 20 minutes before serving.
    7. Store leftovers in fridge

    How to Make Homemade Cherry Pie Filling 

    I used canned cherry pie filling, but you can opt and make your own if you like in this cherry cream cheese coffee cake recipe!

    • If you want to make cherry pie filling - Ingredients You Need: 1 ½ cups fresh cherries - 3 tablespoons sugar - 3 teaspoons water - 1 & ½ teaspoons cornstarch. 
      1. In a medium sauce pan, combine cherries and sugar together and cook on medium low until cherries start to release their juices. 
      2. In a small bowl, combine the water and corn starch together to make a slurry, then add it to the cherries. 
      3. Continue to cook for 5 minutes until thickened.  Remove from heat and let cool before adding to coffee cake.

    cherry cream cheese coffee cake recipe

    Coffee Cake Recipe Tips

    • If you have a food processor, this recipe is perfect for the streusel part.  If you don't, that's ok.  It will take a little longer to make the cake and the streusel, because the butter is cold and you have to cut both of the mixtures with a pastry cutter or 2 forks to get a coarse texture.
    • Make sure you bake the cake through. Sometimes when you bake desserts with fillings, it can be hard to tell. If it's too jiggly, it's not done.
    • Bake for 50-55 minutes until a cake tester or the tip of a knife inserted in the center comes out mostly clean. If the streusel starts browning too much, tent the top with aluminum foil.

    cherry cream cheese coffee cake recipe

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    Cherry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake

    Cherry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake

    Kim Lange
    You'll be over the moon with this delicious Cherry Coffee Cake!  It has luscious cherry pie filling, a surprise layer of cream cheese filling, and an easy streusel crumb topping to die for!  Serve this tempting cake with coffee or tea for breakfast, brunch, or dessert.  Cherries and cream cheese together are the bomb!
    4.34 from 6 votes
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    Prep Time 15 mins
    Course Breakfast, Dessert
    Servings 12 Servings
    Calories

    Ingredients
      

    Streusel Topping

    • 1 cup all purpose flour
    • ⅓ cup brown sugar packed
    • 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
    • ¼ teaspoon salt
    • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
    • ½ cup butter melted

    Cream Cheese Filling

    • 1 - 8 ounce cream cheese room temperature
    • ¼ cup sugar
    • 1 large egg

    Cherry Pie Filling

    • 1 - 21 ounce cherry pie filling

    Coffee Cake

    • 2 cups all purpose flour
    • ¾ cup sugar
    • ½ cup cold butter, unsalted cut into ½ inch cubes
    • ½ teaspoon baking soda
    • ½ teaspoon baking powder
    • ¼ teaspoon salt
    • 1 cup Greek yogurt or sour cream
    • 2 large eggs
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla

    Instructions
     

    • Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease an 8 or 9-inch springform pan and line the bottom with parchment paper. Set aside. I used an 8" springform pan and the coffee cake will bake clear to the top, because it's thicker. When using a springform pan, put a rimmed baking sheet underneath with foil just in case your pan leaks.

    Streusel Topping

    • Whisk together the flour, sugars, salt and cinnamon together. Add melted butter and stir together. Mixture should like like wet sand and should have lots of big chunks. Do not smooth out, place in fridge until ready to use.

    Cream Cheese Filling

    • Beat room temperature cream cheese until it's smooth. Add sugar and egg until it is combined. Set aside.

    Coffee Cake

    • Combine flour and sugar together. Add small chunks of butter and cut it in using a pastry cutter, two forks or a food processor until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add baking soda, baking powder, salt and mix in well.
    • In separate bowl, whisk together the yogurt/sour cream, egg and vanilla until well blended. Gently stir into the flour mixture until incorporated. The dough will be thick.
    • Spread the batter into the bottom of prepared pan. Spread it out so the sides are about a half inch higher. Pour the cream cheese in the center, spreading it out, trying not to go past the border. Then add the cherry pie filling on top of the cream cheese filling. Take a knife and swirl through the mixture 8-10 times or so.
    • Sprinkle the streusel on top of the whole coffee cake.
    • Bake for 60-65 minutes for 8" and 50-55 minutes for 9" pan or until a cake tester or the tip of a knife inserted in the center comes out mostly clean. If the streusel starts browning too much, tent the top with aluminum foil.
    • Let cake cool in pan on a wire rack for about 20 minutes before serving.
    • Store leftovers in fridge

    Notes

    • Make sure you bake the cake through. Sometimes when you bake desserts with fillings, it can be hard to tell. If it's too jiggly, it's not done.
    • If you want to make cherry pie filling - 1 ½ cups fresh cherries - 3 tablespoons sugar - 3 teaspoons water - 1 & ½ teaspoons cornstarch.  In a medium sauce pan, combine cherries and sugar together and cook on medium low until cherries start to release their juices.  In a small bowl, combine the water and corn starch together to make a slurry, then add it to the cherries.  Continue to cook for 5 minutes until thickened.  Remove from heat and let cool before adding to coffee cake.
    Keyword brunch, cake, cherry, coffee cake, cream cheese, filling
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    Hi! I'm Kim! As you may know, I'm cookie, brownie and chocolate obsessed! You'll find hundreds of decadent and healthy dessert recipes to choose from here! So, let's bake something easy and never forget the chocolate!

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    1. Katherine | Love In My Oven says

      September 03, 2021 at 12:03 am

      YUM Kim! What a great looking cake. I love the cherry filling...my fave! Plus that streusel...sign me up for a big piece!

    2. Teresa Ambra says

      August 31, 2021 at 11:11 am

      This looks so scrumptious!

    3. Ben | Havocinthekitchen says

      August 31, 2021 at 6:29 am

      Kim, this cake looks phenomenal - so luscious and mouthwatering, rich yet fresh. I love the ratio of the filling to the dough, not to mention the addition of streusel and cream cheese.

      • Kim Lange says

        August 31, 2021 at 9:16 am

        Agree! Thank you Ben!

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