Swirl Coffee Cake

Recipe from Julie Kramer, 2025 Watkins Recipe Giveaway Winner

Ingredients

Coffee Cake

• 1 ½ cups sugar
• ½ cup margarine or butter, softened
• ½ cup shortening
• 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon Watkins Baking Vanilla
• 1 teaspoon Watkins Pure Almond Extract
• 4 eggs
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 can (29 oz.) cherry, apple, apricot or blueberry pie filling

Glaze – Optional

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1-2 Tablespoons milk

Instructions

• Heat oven to 350 degrees F
• Generously grease jelly roll pan: 15 ½” x 10 ½” x 1” pan or 9” x 13” pan or two square 9” x 9” pans
• Blend sugar, margarin/butter, shortening, baking powder, Baking Vanilla, Pure Almond Extract, and eggs in a large bowl on low speed, scraping bowl consistently.
• Beat on high speed, scraping bow occasionally, 3 minutes.
• Stir in flour
• Spread 2/3 of the batter in jelly roll pan or ½ in each square pan.
• Spread pie filling over batter
• Drop remaining batter by tablespoons onto pie filling
• Bake until lightly golden brown, about 45 minutes.
• Remove from oven and cut into squares

Optional - Glaze:

• Prepare gaze by mixing all of the glaze ingredients until a desired consistency.
• Drizzle glaze over warm coffee cake