Cherry Crumble

Elena Butuc

I like fruit pies a lot, but most of the times I don't have time to make the batter and to assemble everything into a pie. In this case, my solution is the crumble recipe, a sort of quick cake, with a crumbly dough and oat flakes (a big plus for us), you can eat it with the spoon and it's so, so good. I loved the combination of crumble and cherries, it can also be combined with sour cherries, jut be careful that they are not that sweet, so you'll need more sugar.

We served this cherry crumble with Greek yogurt, vanilla ice cream is another possibility, but the kids chose to have it as such. I liked it best when it was warm, about an hour after it was removed from the oven. Of course, served cold from the fridge the next day is not bad at all.

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Ingredients

Metric US

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Pitted cherries

800 g

after pitting about 1 kilo of cherries

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Sugar

100 g

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Lemon

1 piece

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White flour

70 g

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Quick oats

70 g

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Butter

80 g

cold, from the fridge

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Vanilla Extract

1 tsp

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Cornstarch

1 tbsp

optional

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Salt

0.25 tsp

Step by step

First of all, pit the cherries and place them in a big bowl.

Add 30g sugar (about 2-3 tbsp), vanilla extract and the juice from a lemon. I recommend also adding 1 tbsp cornstarch to the fruit, this will thicken a bit the juice from the cherries and so the crumble will have the best consistency.

Mix everything with a spoon.