Jam Swirl Coffee Cake

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 9
• 2/3 cup butter
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 2 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 2 eggs
• 2/3 cup buttermilk
• 1/3 cup seedless raspberry preserves or 1/3 cup strawberry preserves or 1/3 cup boysenberry preserves

Recipe

• 1 in a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar; add 3/4 cup of the flour and blend until mixture resembles crumbs; remove 2/3 cup for topping; reserve.
• 2 to the remaining crumb mixture add baking powder, salt, soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and eggs; beat until smooth add remaining 1 1/4 cup flour alternately with buttermilk, beating after each addition just until blended.
• 3 spread batter in a greased 9-inch-square baking pan.
• 4 drop teaspoonfuls of the berry preserves over the top of the batter; cut through the batter with a knife to marble the preserves through the cake.
• 5 work reserved mixture between fingers until it resembles coarse crumbs.
• 6 sprinkle over the top of the batter.
• 7 bake in a 375° oven for 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.