Crumb Cake With Sour Cherries Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9-inch square baking dish, and dust with flour, tapping out excess.
• Make the topping: Stir together butter, flour, sugars, salt, and cinnamon.
• Make the cakes: Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. With a mixer, cream butter and granulated sugar in another bowl until pale and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Working in alternating batches, add flour mixture and buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat until just combined. Pour into prepared dish, and smooth with an offset spatula. Dot top with cherries, and sprinkle with crumb topping.
• Bake until golden and a tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Let cool before cutting.

Steps:

• For the topping stir together butter, flour, sugar, sea salt, and cinnamon. Mix using your hands or a wooden spoon until medium to large clumps form. Set aside.
• For the cake whisk together flour, baking powder, and sea salt in a bowl.
• With a mixer, cream butter and sugar in another bowl until pale and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla.
• Working in alternating batches, add flour mixture and buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat until just combined.
• Pour into a 23 cm square baking dish lined with parchment paper, and smooth with a spatula. Top with cherries, and sprinkle with crumb topping.
• Bake in the oven at 180°C for 1 hour until golden and a tester inserted into center comes out clean. Let cool before cutting.

Steps:

• Crust: Preheat oven to 375°F. Butter an 8-inch square cake pan. Line with parchment, leaving a 2-inch overhang on two sides; butter parchment.
• Beat butter with sugar on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes, scraping down bowl as needed. Reduce speed to medium-low, add flour and salt, and beat until dough forms clumps but does not completely hold together. Press 2 1/2 cups flour mixture into bottom and 1 inch up sides of prepared pan.
• Filling: In a medium bowl, stir together cherries, sugar, flour, lemon juice, and salt. Pour into crust. Crumble remaining flour mixture (about 1/2 cup) evenly over top, squeezing to create clumps.
• Bake until bubbling in center and crust is golden, about 1 hour, 10 minutes (if browning too quickly, tent top with foil). Transfer to a wire rack and let cool at least 20 minutes before slicing into squares.