Raspberry Cream Cheese Coffeecake

 Ingredients:

- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sugar, divided
- ¾ cup margarine or butter
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup light sour cream
- 1 teaspoon almond flavoring
- 2 eggs, divided
- 8 ounces Neufchatel cream cheese
- ½ cup raspberry  preserves
- ½ cup almonds , sliced

 

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Grease a 10-inch springform pan.

Combine the flour and ¾ cup sugar. Cut in the margarine or butter. Reserve 1 cup of the dry mixture. To remaining dry mixture, add the next 6 ingredients, plus 1 egg, and mix.

Spread mixture over bottom of the pan. Combine cream cheese, ¼ cup sugar and remaining egg. Spread over the crust mixture. Spoon preserves over top. Add sliced almonds to the reserved crumb mixture and sprinkle over the preserves. Bake for 50 minutes.