Cherry Coffeecake

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Mix together in a large bowl:

  • 1 ¼ cups all purpose flour
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • ¼ tsp baking soda

Stir in with a spoon:

  • ½ cup butter, melted
  • ½ cup milk
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Mix with a fork in a small dry bowl until crumbly:

  • ½ cup flour
  • 2 TBS sugar
  • 2 TBS melted butter

Pour on the batter:

1-21oz. or 22oz. can cherry pie filling with added 1/4 tsp. lemon extract (optional)

Procedure:

  1. Mix first four ingredients
  2. To flour mixture, add ½ cup melted butter, milk, egg and vanilla.
  3. With a spoon, beat until well mixed then pour batter into a greased and floured 9 in. round or square pan.
  4. In small bowl with fork, combine ½ cup flour and 2 TBS. sugar and 2 TBS. melted butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
  5. Sprinkle half of crumb mixture evenly over top of batter in pan.
  6. Stir lemon extract (optional) into cherry-pie filling and spread on top of the crumbs in pan.
  7. Sprinkle the rest of the crumbs on top of the cherry-pie filling in the pan.  Bake in 350°F – 1 hour (golden top)