Dried-Cherry Crumb Cake

Categories: Breads

Serves: 12 Servings

Ingredients:

3 tb All-purpose flour
1 1/2 tb Sugar
1 1/2 tb Brown sugar
1 1/2 ts Margarine
1 1/2 c All-purpose flour
2/3 c Sugar
1/2 c Dried pitted tart cherries
1 1/2 ts Baking powder
1/4 ts Baking soda
1/8 ts Salt
1/8 ts Ground nutmeg
1 c Nonfat buttermilk
1 ts Grated orange rind
3 tb Vegetable oil
1 ts Vanilla extract
2 Egg whites
Vegetable cooking spray

Instructions:
Combine the first 3 ingredients in a bowl; cut in margarine with a pastry
blender until mixture resembles coarse meal. Set streusel mixture aside.

Combine 1-1/2 cups flour and next 6 ingredients in a bowl; stir well, and
set flour mixture aside.

Combine the nonfat buttermilk and next 4 ingredients in a large bowl; stir
well with a wire whisk. Gradually add flour mixture, stirring just until
dry ingredients are moistened.

Pour the batter into a 9-inch round cakepan coated with cooking spray, and
sprinkle streusel mixture over batter. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes
or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Yield: 12
servings (serving size: 1 wedge).

Per serving: 166 Calories; 4g Fat (22% calories from fat); 3g Protein; 29g
Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol; 120mg Sodium

Serving Ideas : Serve warm.

NOTES : Dried, pitted tart cherries are available at specialty-food stores
and large supermarkets, or they can be mail-ordered from American Spoon
Foods Inc., 800/222-5886. You can substitute raisins, chopped prunes, or
dates for the dried cherries.

Recipe by: Cooking Light, Jan/Feb 1995, page 66

Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #423 by igor@digex.net on Jan 28, 1997.

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