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Strawberry-Almond Cornmeal Cake

"Equal parts fruit crumble and coffee cake, this not-too-sweet dessert starts out bright pink but bakes to a toasty golden brown."
Course Desserts

Ingredients
  

Strawberry Crumble

  • ½ cup raw skin-on almonds
  • 2 ounces freeze-dried strawberries
  • cup ¾all-purpose flour
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
  • ½ cup chilled unsalted butter cut into pieces, 1 stick

Cake and Assembly

  • Nonstick vegetable oil spray
  • 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • cup ⅓cornmeal
  • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon kosher salt
  • 6 ounces almond paste
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • ¾ cup unsalted butter room temperature, 1½ sticks
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 pound strawberries hulled, half halved, half quartered
  • Powdered sugar for serving

Instructions
 

Strawberry Crumble

  • Pulse almonds in a food processor until about the size of grains of rice. Add strawberries and pulse to a coarse powder. Add flour, sugar, and salt and pulse just to blend. Add butter and process until no dry spots remain.

Cake and Assembly

  • Preheat oven to 350°. Coat pan with nonstick spray. Whisk flour, cornmeal, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Using an electric mixer on medium speed, break up almond paste in a large bowl until crumbly. Add sugar and butter and mix until blended, about 2 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well to incorporate after each addition. Increase speed to medium-high and beat until mixture is light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Reduce speed to low and mix in dry ingredients.
  • Scrape batter into pan; scatter strawberries over top, followed by clumps of crumble. Bake cake until top is golden brown and a tester inserted into the center comes out clean, 80–90 minutes. Let cool in pan before unmolding. Dust with powdered sugar just before serving.

Notes

Do Ahead: Cake can be baked 2 days ahead. Store tightly wrapped at room temperature.
Recipe courtesy of Bon Appetit.
Keyword almond, Cake, cornmeal, strawberry
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