This fruit cocktail coffee cake with cream cheese frosting is made with canned fruit cocktail, egg, sugar, and chopped nuts. Serve for brunch or dessert.
Prep Time15 minutesmins
Cook Time35 minutesmins
Total Time50 minutesmins
Course: Brunch
Cuisine: American
Keyword: fruit cocktail coffee cake
Servings: 6
Author: Laura Warnke
Ingredients
1Cupflour
3/4teaspoonbaking soda
1Cupsugar
1Egg
1teaspoonvanilla
18-3/4 oz. can fruit cocktail
1/4Cupchopped or ground nutsoptional
Cream Cheese Frosting
1/4cupbuttersoftened
1pkg.3 ounces cream cheese, softened
1Cuppowdered sugar(confectioner's sugar)
1/2teaspoonvanilla extract
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease and flour an 8" x 8" x 2" glass baking dish or spray with a non-stick cooking spray.
Sift together flour, baking soda, and sugar in a small bowl.
Combine the egg, vanilla, and fruit cocktail with juice in a separate bowl. Stir well.
Add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture and mix.
Fold in the chopped nuts.
Pour the batter into the prepared glass baking dish. Bake for 30-35 minutes, until golden brown.
Cream Cheese Frosting
While baking, prepare the cream cheese frosting. With an electric hand mixer, blend the butter, cream cheese, powdered sugar, and vanilla together until smooth.
Let the coffee cake sit for 10 minutes or so and then frost the cake while still warm.