Chef Tell's **Coffee Cake Internationale

Patsy owned these 2 pans forever and loves this coffee cake. When she started giving her stuff away she asked me what I wanted.  I asked for these pans.  And sure enough she was right. This recipe makes an amazing breakfast cake.  I could eat the batter right out of the mixing bowl.

You will need two 9"x2" cake pans.

3/4 cup butter
1-1/2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1/2 t. almond extract
3 cups flour
1-1/2 t. baking soda
1 8oz container sour cream
1 can (21 oz) cherry fruit filling
Streusel Topping (below)
PAM cooking spray

Streusel Topping
Combine 1/2 cup flour, 1/4 cup sugar, and 1/2 t. cinnamon. Cut in 1/4 cup butter until crumbly

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Spray two 9" round cake pans with Pam.

Cream butter and sugar.  Beat in eggs until mixture is very light and fluffy.  Add extract. Combine floured soda; add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream. Divide batter evenly in pans, spreading cherry Fruit Filling on top.  Sprinkle streusel topping over cherry filling.

Bake 25-30 minutes until cake tests done.

**Chef Tell was one of the first culinary celebrities, giving cooking demonstrations on television beginning in the 1970s.  Born Friedman Paul Erhardt in Germany in 1943, Chef Tell started his culinary training at the age of 13 1/2. He had a very distinguished career as a chef in Europe before moving to the United States. In 1974, Chef Tell made his first television appearance. He then had his own segment on Evening Magazine and later his own show, In the Kitchen with Chef Tell, on public television. Chef Tell died on October 26, 2007.