Cherry Crumb Cake

I was experimenting with a new cake recipe this week. I wanted to use some fresh cherries in a cake and I ended up deciding to make a cherry crumb cake. I already had a recipe I liked for a blueberry crumb cake. I changed the recipe a little and I really like the way it came out. I added an extra egg to the original recipe. Not because of some intuitive idea of how to improve the recipe. I just thought it had two eggs in it to begin with. Turns out I like the recipe with the extra egg.

So here is the cherry crumb cake recipe. I loved it and think you will, too. I used sweet cherries, because that is what I had. Sour cherries would also work well in this cake.

Cherry Crumb Cake

For cake batter:

2 c. flour

2 t. baking powder

½ t. salt

½ stick (¼ cup) butter, softened

¾ c. sugar

2 eggs

½ c. milk

2 c. pitted cherries, coarsely chopped

For topping:

½ c. sugar

¼ c. flour

½ t. cinnamon

½ stick (¼ c. butter, chilled and cut into bits)

Combine dry ingredients and set aside. In mixing bowl with electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and milk. Add flour mixture gradually until just mixed in. Fold in cherries. Grease and flour an 8 or 9-inch pan and add prepared batter. Combine topping ingredients until they resemble coarse crumbs. Sprinkle over batter in pan and bake in a preheated 375-degree oven and bake for 35-45 minutes. Use toothpick to test.