Cherry Almond Coffee Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup sour cream
10 ounces cans cherry pie filling
1/2 cup thinly sliced almonds (2oz)

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350\u00b0 and butter a 10\" diameter springform pan.
Beat sugar and butter together until light, then add eggs, vanilla and almond extracts.
Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt into another bowl.
Mix half of dry ingredients into butter mixture, then add sour cream, then add remaining dry ingredients.
Pour 2/3 of batter into prepared pan.
Drop pie filling by tablespoons over batter evenly.
Drop remaining batter by spoonfuls over pie filling and using back of spoon, carefully spread batter over filling.
Sprinkle with almonds and bake for 1 hour and 5 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool in pan on rack, then cut around sides of pan and remove cake from pan.