Recipe Review: Sour Cherry Coffee Cake from Lottie + Doof

We may have mentioned that we have ten pounds of sour cherries burning a hole in our fridge. We've been whittling away at them with weekend clafoutis, sour cherry pancakes and baked cherries with hazelnut crumble, but we were resolved to save the rest for a Big Project. Until, that is, we spotted this sour cherry coffee cake at Lottie + Doof.

We are big fans of Lottie + Doof; we enjoy Tim's writing and recipes so much. In fact, he even wrote a guest post for The Kitchn. So when we stumbled across this recipe for sour cherry coffee cake right before we had a guest due for dinner, we felt it was fate.

This is a good basic coffee cake recipe. It comes together just like a cake: cream the butter and sugar, mix in the dry ingredients, and bake with a streusel on top. The sweet batter was a great complement to the tart, juicy cherries, and the cake's crumb and texture turned out tender, moist, and soft. The streusel was everything a streusel should be: crisp and sugary. We did punch up the spices a little, adding a flurry of nutmeg and an extra pinch of cinnamon.

Great recipe! If you are so lucky as to have some cherries or even cranberries, strawberries, or blueberries around, give this one a try. It would make a lovely weekend breakfast.

• Get the recipe: Sour Cherry Coffee Cake at Lottie + Doof

(Images: Faith Durand)

I'm really jealous, we had sour cherry trees when I was a kid and my mom did some amazing things with them. The pies were just incredible, I don't really like other cherry pies because I can't help compare them to a really good sour cherry pie. And the jam she made was unbelievably good. We weren't allowed to open a new jar on our own, we had to ask. Otherwise all the jam would have been gone by September. I plan to plant at least one sour cherry tree when I buy a house in the nearish future, it's the one fruit that's worth taking care of.

posted by Pencils on July 30th 2009 at 10:05am
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I have made this twice and it is fantastic. Just haven't had time to get it up on my blog yet but some pictures are up on my Flickr site.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitneyinchicago/3757335297/

posted by WhitinChi on July 30th 2009 at 10:43am
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