Cherry Coffee Cake Recipe

This Cherry coffee cake recipe is made with sweet cherry pie filling, sugar, egg whites, butter, and milk and finished with a crumb topping. Serve for brunch, breakfast, or dessert.

Try this delicious cherry coffee cake recipe for breakfast or brunch this weekend and enjoy the compliments!

Whipped egg whites give the coffee cake volume and keeps the cake light and fluffy. This recipe is quick and easy because you use canned cherry pie filling. You can also use any other fruit flavor of pie filling for this recipe such as blueberry or apple.

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Serve the cake warm with ice cream or sweetened whipped cream for a fun dessert.

This cherry coffee cake recipe is from my Grandmother’s recipe box collection.

Cherry Coffee Cake Recipe

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Cherry Coffee Cake with Crumb Topping

A cherry coffee cake made with sweet cherry pie filling.
Prep Time30 minutes
Cook Time50 minutes
Total Time1 hour 20 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cherry coffee cake
Servings: 6
Author: Laura Warnke

Ingredients

  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 2 egg yolks beaten
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 2 egg whites beaten stiff
  • 1-21 ounce can cherry pie filling

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Grease a 9" square or 7" x 11" pan.
  • Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
  • Soften butter and cut in to flour mixture until crumbly. A pastry cutter works well for this. Reserve 1/2 cup of mixture for topping.
  • Separate the eggs into two different small bowls.
  • Combine the 2 egg yolks, beaten and milk. Add to remaining crumb mixture and beat with a wooden spoon until smooth.
  • Beat the 2 egg whites until stiff. Carefully and slowly fold into batter mixture.
  • Spread mixture into a greased baking pan or dish.
  • Over this mixture, evenly spread the cherry pie filling.
  • Top with the remaining 1/2 cup of crumbs.
  • Bake 45-55 minutes until lightly golden brown and set in the center. Let cool slightly.
  • Top this coffeecake with sweetened whipped cream if desired, and serve warm.

Notes

You can also substitute any other flavor of pie filling instead of the cherry in this coffee cake recipe.

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