Sour Cherry Cobbler Coffee Cake Recipe

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Grab a fork and dig into this luscious Sour Cherry Cobbler Coffee Cake! You love coffee cake recipe and if you love cherries, so why not combine them together for an amazing dessert that everyone will love, right?

Sour Cherry Cobbler Coffee Cake is the perfect way to satisfy a sweet tooth while also enjoying the unique flavor of sour cherries.  More cherry love? You’ll enjoy these Easy Cherry Cheesecake Cookie Cups, Cherry Cheesecake Poke Cake and Cherry Cheesecake Swirl Brownies!

If you are looking for the perfect summer-time recipe that is sure to please even the pickiest of eaters, look no further than our Cherry Coffee Cake recipe!

This beloved recipe is the perfect blend of warm, comforting coffee cake combined with tart and juicy sour cherries – a unique flavor combination sure to tantalize your taste buds.

This coffee cake is sure to become a favorite family dessert!  Pssst…I’m infatuated with yummy coffee cakes for breakfast and afternoon snacking!  Are you like me?  Drawn in like a butterfly to the flame?

And I was thinking…who isn’t happy when they hear someone has coffee cake and they offer to share  it with you?  It’s like the best thing ever and kick-starts the day off on a happy note for sure.  Happy Day — Woohoo!

Remember what I said about grabbing a fork?  Enjoy savoring just the right balance of the red tart cherries, resembling a cherry cobbler inside coffee cake and topped with a buttery, cinnamon crumb topping, with a vanilla creme glaze on top!

So, pour yourself a cup of ambition or as some would say “coffee”…although you won’t need much ambition at this point and get ready to indulge.

Perfect sweet and sour fruity brunch or breakfast sweet side and of course there’s snacking time and tea-time!

About Sour Cherries

Most sour cherries taste too tart for pleasant eating out of hand, but they are good when sweetened for pies or preserves and other baking or cooking uses.

Morello and Montmorency are two well-known varieties. Fresh Sour cherries are hard to find fresh in the markets, but you can get frozen cherries in stores and online.

Check out Williams Sonoma’s “All About Cherries” article for more information about selecting, storing and preparing them and Choosecherries.com too.

So for this recipe, I found that the frozen sour cherries work really well in this coffee cake!  I love sour cherry!

If you love sweet and sour desserts, check out this Red Tart Cherry Crumble Pie, this OMG Apple Crumb Cream Cheese Coffee Cake, these Best Lemon Bars and these Awesome Strawberry Rhubarb Oatmeal Bars.

Ingredients You Need

Streusel Crumb Topping

• granulated sugar
• all purpose flour
• cinnamon
• unsalted butter

Coffee Cake with Cherries

• eggs, room temperature
• canola oil of oil of choice
• Greek yogurt
• lemon juice
• granulated sugar
• all-purpose flour
• baking powder
• salt
• fresh or frozen sour cherries, add 1 tablespoon flour/1 tablespoon sugar to coat cherries, if cherries are fresh, rinse and then coat in flour/sugar mixture before adding to cake

Vanilla Creme Glaze

• powdered sugar
• vanilla extract
• almond milk or milk of choice or cherry juice for Cherry Creme Glaze.

How to Make Sour Cherry Coffee Cake

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 9×9 baking pan with non-stick spray or line with parchment paper and spray with non-stick spray for easy removal. Set aside.

Make the Streusel Crumb Topping

1. In a medium bowl, using a pastry cutter, cut through the sugar, flour, cinnamon and butter until you get small, coarse crumbs. You can also use a food processor. Set aside.

Making the Coffee Cake Batter with Cherries

1. In a large bowl, add the eggs, oil, Greek yogurt, sugar, lemon juice: optional and mix together well with a whisk.
2. Add the flour, baking powder salt to the wet mixture and continue whisking until just combined.
3. Add 1 tablespoon flour/1 tablespoon sugar to coat cherries, if cherries are fresh, rinse and then coat in flour/sugar mixture before adding to cake).
4. Add to cake batter and fold in cherries about 3-4 times. Too much folding will over-mix cherries into batter.
5. Transfer cake batter to prepared baking pan and sprinkle the crumb mixture evenly on top of the cake.
6. Transfer to oven for 44-55 minutes, check for done-ness.

Drizzle a Simple Vanilla Creme Glaze On Top

1. Glaze if desired. Mix together the powdered sugar, milk and vanilla and drizzle over cake after it’s cooled.
2. Cake is awesome warmed up in the microwave for 20 seconds or so. Heavenly!

More Fruit Options

Don’t be limited by just cherries!  Feel free to substitute any fresh or frozen fruit, with something more seasonable or convenient for you, like blueberry or peach!

Especially, if cherries aren’t your thing or you don’t have them on hand, but you want to make this coffee cake now!

Summery, delightful, delicious Sour Cherry Cobbler Coffee Cake! Microwave it for 20 seconds to get it right out of the oven bakery fresh.  The flavor is amazing.

To take it over the top for after dinner, add some whipped cream or a huge scoop of vanilla ice cream. YUM!

More Comfort Food Delights!

• Easy Very Berry Biscuit Cobbler
• Peanut Butter Chocolate Cherry Bars
• Sour Cream Banana Bars
• Easy Peach Cake Cobbler
• Fluffernutter Apple Nachos
• Awesome Butterscotch Blondies
• Southern Peach & Raspberry Cobbler {for 2}
• Easy Cherry Cheesecake Dessert
• Best Fresh Strawberry Cobbler
• Homemade Blueberry Cobbler

Love apple? Give this Apple Cream Cheese Tart a try!

Sour Cherry Cobbler Coffee Cake

Kim Lange

Summery, delightful, delicious Sour Cherry Cobbler Coffee Cake! Microwave it for 20 seconds to get it right out of the oven bakery fresh.

4.43 from 117 votes

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 45 minutes mins

Course Breakfast, Brunch, Dessert, Snack

Cuisine American

Servings 12 Servings

Calories

Ingredients

 

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Streusel Crumb Topping

• 1 cup granulated sugar
• ½ cup all purpose flour
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• ½ cup unsalted butter

Sour Cherry Coffee Cake:

• 2 large eggs room temperature
• ¾ cup canola oil of oil of choice
• ¾ cup Greek yogurt
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 & ¾ cups flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 2 cups fresh or frozen sour cherries add 1 tablespoon flour/1 tablespoon sugar to coat cherries, if cherries are fresh, rinse and then coat in flour/sugar mixture before adding to cake

Vanilla Creme Glaze

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 to 3 teaspoons almond milk or milk of choice or cherry juice for Cherry Creme Glaze.

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Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 9x9 baking pan with non-stick spray or line with parchment paper and spray with non-stick spray for easy removal. Set aside.

Streusel Crumb Topping

• In a medium bowl, using a pastry cutter, cut through the sugar, flour, cinnamon and butter until you get small, coarse crumbs. You can also use a food processor. Set aside.

Sour Cherry Coffee Cake

• In a large bowl, add the eggs, oil, Greek yogurt, sugar, lemon juice: optional and mix together well with a whisk.
• Add the flour, baking powder salt to the wet mixture and continue whisking until just combined.
• Add 1 tablespoon flour/1 tablespoon sugar to coat cherries, if cherries are fresh, rinse and then coat in flour/sugar mixture before adding to cake).
• Add to cake batter and fold in cherries about 3-4 times. Too much folding will over-mix cherries into batter.
• Transfer cake batter to prepared baking pan and sprinkle the crumb mixture evenly on top of the cake.
• Transfer to oven for 44-55 minutes, check for done-ness.

Vanilla Creme Glaze

• Glaze if desired. Mix together the powdered sugar, milk and vanilla and drizzle over cake after it's cooled.
• Cake is awesome warmed up in the microwave for 20 seconds or so. Heavenly!

Keyword breakfast, brunch, cheesecake, cherry, coffee cake, sour cherries

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