Cobblestone Cherry Cake | Cookies and Cups

Cobblestone Cherry Cake is a moist vanilla cake, filled with tart cherries and drizzled with vanilla icing. This cherry cake recipe is just as good with a cup of coffee as it is as a sweet treat for dessert!

Why You’ll Love Cobblestone Cherry Cake

• A Unique Take On Cherry Cake! Cobblestone Cherry Cake is a cross between cherry cobbler and cherry coffee cake. Not only that you actually can eat it with your hands a lot like a cookie bar. This recipe checks all the boxes!
• Enjoy It For Breakfast OR Dessert! What we have here is kind of a danish, kind of a cherry cake, kind of a cobbler…or a beautiful combination of all of the above. The cake is a dense, but moist vanilla cake, topped with cherry pie filling and then topped with dollops of more batter giving it that “cobbler” appearance.
• Easy To Make! This is an easy recipe, with prep time only 15 minutes.
• Great For Potlucks! This is a nostalgic dessert, perfect to bring to a summer BBQ, 4th of July party, or any occasion.

Ingredients / What You Will Need

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• Butter at room temperature. I use salted butter in this recipe but you can also use unsalted if you prefer.
• Granulated sugar
• Vanilla extract. You can also use vanilla bean paste too. Or try almond extract which pairs deliciously with the cherries.
• Eggs. I use large sized eggs in this recipe as I do in all my baking recipes, unless otherwise stated.
• Dry Ingredients: Baking powder, kosher salt, and all purpose flour
• Cherry pie filling. You will use one large can of pie filling, or you can make your own from scratch. I am including the steps to do this below!
• Icing: Powdered Sugar and milk

How To Make Cobblestone Cherry Cake

• The cake batter is very easy and straightforward. You simply prepare the batter and spread about two-thirds of it into a greased 9×13 baking dish.

• Spread your pie filling on top evenly and then drop the remaining batter by the tablespoon on top of the filling.

• Bake for about 45 minutes, or until the edges are very lightly golden.
• When it’s cooled drizle the icing all over the top.

Could You Make This Cake With Other Fruit?

You can absolutely make this cake with other fillings if cherry isn’t your favorite. Here are some other options that would work perfectly. Quite frankly any pie filling could be subbed for the cherry pie filling:

• Blueberry
• Apple
• Mixed Berry
• Peach Pie
• Strawberry

Make Your Own Pie Filling (If You Want)

If you want to make this cake recipe totally from scratch you can make your own pie filling instead of using canned. Here’s how:

1. Cook 3 cups of pitted cherries, 1 cup of granulated sugar, and 1 teaspoon of lemon juice over medium heat in a saucepan. Stir continuously until the sugar is dissolved.
2. Mix 1 tablespoon of corn starch with 2 tablespoons or more of water, until smooth. Add this to the cherry mixture and cook until the mixture becomes a boil, and is thick and glossy.
3. Remove from the heat and cool.

How To Store This Cherry Cake

You can store Cherry Cobblestone Cake airtight at room temperature for up to 3 days, or freeze airtight for up to 2 months. Thaw at room temperature.

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