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Best Sour Cherry Coffee Cake Recipe | Claire Saffitz | Dessert Person

Join Claire Saffitz as she bakes the ultimate yeasted sour cherry coffee cake layered with a buttery streusel topping and tangy-sweet cherry filling. This cozy homemade coffee cake combines frozen sour cherries, Kerrygold butter, and a tender yeast-raised dough for an elevated twist on a classic. Perfect for breakfast, brunch, or dessert, this cherry streusel cake recipe is rich, flavorful, and surprisingly easy to make.

Claire walks you step-by-step: proofing yeast in warm milk, mixing a soft enriched dough with eggs and sugar, macerating and reducing sour cherries with lemon zest and juice, and finishing with a crisp, cinnamon-spiced streusel topping. If you love coffee cake recipes, sour cherry desserts, or Kerrygold butter bakes, this one’s for you.

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Ingredients:
Yeasted Sour Cherry Coffee Cake
1 teaspoon active dry yeast
½ cup whole milk
1½ teaspoons vanilla extract
⅓ cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon Diamond Crystal kosher salt
2½ cups all-purpose flour
1 stick unsalted butter, cut into tablespoons, at room temperature, plus more for the pan
STREUSEL
1¼ cups all-purpose flour
½ cup packed light brown sugar
¾ teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon Diamond Crystal kosher salt
1 stick unsalted butter (4 oz / 113g), cut into pieces, at room temp
FILLING
1 pounds frozen pitted sour cherries, thawed (about 3 cups)
Vanilla extract
⅓ cup granulated sugar
Lemon juice
1 teaspoon lemon zest
1 Tablespoon butter
2 teaspoons cornstarch

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:34 Coffee cake
00:50 Ingredients & Special Equipment
01:55 Kerrygold
02:58 Macerate the Cherries
03:53 Make the Coffee Cake Base
08:01 Make the Fruit Filling
10:25 Make the Streusel
11:52 Assemble
14:31 Cat cam

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Video Series:
Producer/Director: Vincent Cross
Camera Operator: Calvin Robertson
Editor/Motion Graphics: Hal McFall

Animation Credits:
Character Designer/Animator/Backgrounds: Jack Sherry
Character Rigger: Johara Dutton