Grab a fork and dig into this luscious Sour Cherry Cobbler Coffee Cake recipe! 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 Cherries
I personally like to use frozen cherries or berries a lot of times, because you get the excess cherry juice after they have thawed, and you don't get that from fresh fruit, unless you macerate them or cook them down, which is an additional step if you want juice.
You can use the the cherry juice to incorporate into sauces, syrups, glazes, flavoring and frostings, etc. Check out Williams Sonoma's "All About Cherries" article for more information about selecting, storing and preparing them and Choosecherries.com too.
But depending on the recipe, sometimes I prefer fresh berries, but either one will work for this coffee cake!
Don't be limited by just cherries! Feel free to substitute any fresh or frozen fruit, with something more seasonable or convenient for you. Especially, if cherries aren't your thing or you don't have them on hand, but you want to make it now! or sooner than later! So worth it!!
If you love sweet and sour desserts, may I suggest 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
Sour Cherry Coffee Cake:
- eggs
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
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
- Sour Cream Banana Bars
- Easy Peach Cake Cobbler
- Fluffernutter Apple Nachos
- Awesome Butterscotch Blondies
- Southern Peach & Raspberry Cobbler {for 2}
Love apple? Give this Apple Cream Cheese Tart a try!
Sour Cherry Cobbler Coffee Cake
Ingredients
Streusel Crumb Topping:
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ cup unsalted butter
Sour Cherry Coffee Cake:
- 2 large eggs
- 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 teaspoon 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.
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.
- 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.
- 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!
Kim Lange says
That is wonderful to hear Lunette! I am so happy it worked out for you and you're having it for Christmas breakfast too! Makes my day!
Lunette Fleming says
I was surprised at how difficult it was to find a recipe for coffee cake using whole cherries and not cherry pie filling. Thank you for posting this one. I make it today on a cold fall morning using frozen cherries. Even my husband who is very strict about eating anything with sugar in it had two pieces. I guess we needed something sweet, delicious and cheery. I substituted sour cream for the yogurt, but it is the only change I made. I think I will serve this for Christmas breakfast this year.
Kim Lange says
I'm so happy to hear you enjoyed it Cindy! Thank you so much for your review, you are so sweet! Happy baking! xo
CINDY says
The Sour Cherry Cobbler Coffee Cake turned out great! It was the right combination of sweet and tart!
Patricia Farano says
My husband and I enjoyed this. The cake is very tender and the amount of fruit was just right.
I only had vanilla yogurt which worked fine; I did add a smidge of almond extract as I like almond with cherry.
I had frozen cherries which I thawed in the refrigerator overnight; tossed with a little flour before adding to the batter.
And, because my husband has diabetes, I chose to use half as much streusel and only a little glaze. For us, that was plenty.
I set this up the night before by making the streusel and storing in the refrigerator overnight. I combined the wet ingredients in a larger covered container in the refrigerator and stored them overnight; removed while oven was preheating. I stored the combined dry ingredients in a covered container on the counter. Whisked wet ingredients, added dry and proceeded with the recipe as written. It made getting it into the oven for a warm coffee cake very quick.
Kim Lange says
Wow! Thank you so much!! xo
Anonymous says
Amazing!my new favourite cake😊
Jennie says
My family thought this sour cherry coffee cake was divine! Mine did not rise quite as much as your picture. I used thawed frozen cherries and they had some accumulated juice from thawing. Could this additional liquid affect the height? It was still delicious, and A light coffee cake. I bought a special 9” pan just to make these and I will certainly put this pan to use with this recipe! I am looking forward to Baking more great recipes from your site.
Catherine says
Wow, this is absolutely beautiful, Kim!! I would take down that whole coffee cake in under an hour, YUM!! 😀
Ben|Havocinthekitchen says
When it comes to a "coffe cake recipe", I keep forgetting it's only the name, and I always start searching coffee as the actual ingredient haha. With or without coffee, this cake looks and sounds fantastic! I'm a huge fan of sour cherries, and they're perfectly balanced out with this sweet glaze. Excellent!
2pots2cook says
Absolutely agree to Katherine !!!! First cup of coffee to open my eyes and the second one once my eyes are opened so the first thing I see is Sour Cherry Cobbler Coffee Cake 🙂 🙂
Valentina says
I LOVE coffee cake! Your description of this one has my mouth watering. My coffee is poured!
Katherine | Love In My Oven says
This looks soooo good Kim!! I love sour cherries so much, but I've never actually baked with them. This looks like the perfect morning snack to go with that second cup of coffee!!
Laura says
Oooh that texture! It looks amazing - I just want to bite the photo. I love the cherries! Pinning!
Kelly @ Kelly Lynns Sweets and Treats says
This cherry coffee cake looks so buttery, yet tart! Perfect combo! You can never go wrong with coffee cake!!
Kelsie | the itsy-bitsy kitchen says
Coffee cake is the best! And this one looks perfect--soft and sweet with plenty of cherries. Save a slice for me!