We sure hope you are having a terrific day and your day will be even better if you have something delicious in order to satisfy your craving for something sweet. All you have to do is whip up this fabulous cherry and cream cheese coffee cake. This tantalizing dessert will certainly delight you, your family and your friends every time. It is so good as a dessert. But often people even like to eat it for breakfast, because it is so temptingly scrumptious.

Our helpful tips for making this cherry and cream cheese coffee cake even better

You can really elevate this fine dessert when you decide to place some fresh cherries or frozen cherries on top of the batter prior to placing it to bake in the oven. This will result in an even more defined cherry taste that is utterly magnificent.

Then a wonderful method to really make this dessert extra fantastic is to create a crumble topping for it. You will simply combine ⅔ cup of oat flour, ¼ cup of honey and ¼ cup of melted butter and then place the mixture on top of the batter prior to placing the cake in the oven.

Maybe you do not have cherry pie filling on hand. That is no problem due to the fact that you can use any other type of pie filling for this recipe, such as blueberry pie filling, pear pie filling, lemon pie filling, apricot pie filling, strawberry pie filling, etc.

You can even use any type of jam that you have on hand instead of pie filling. Perhaps try it with rhubarb jam, orange marmalade jam or even black current jam. Raspberry jam would be sensational as well. Be sure to let us know what flavors you tried for this recipe. We are eager to hear of your creative outcomes.

Variations for this decadent cherry and cream cheese coffee cake

If you love chocolate, then you will truly enjoy the chocolate version of this coffee cake. Just add ? cup of melted chocolate to the batter. Also, you can opt to include chocolate-flavored cream cheese rather than simply using cream cheese that is plain.

Do you love the taste of lemon? Then that would be a wonderful addition to this great coffee cake. All you have to do is add your desired amount of lemon zest to the batter. We suggest about 1 ? teaspoons. Also, you can make this amazing dessert have an even zingier lemon taste if you replace the regular cream cheese with the usage of lemon-flavored cream cheese.

Great items to serve with this dessert

You can serve this dessert with lemon sorbet, cherry ice cream or even some creme fraiche on the side. Furthermore, it goes sublimely with a steaming cup of hot chocolate, tea or coffee.

Items that you will need to make this recipe

⅓ cup of mascarpone cheese

⅔ cup of butter

⅓ cup of sour cream

⅓ cup of plain vanilla Greek yogurt

? cup of honey

1 ¼ teaspoons of baking powder

¼ teaspoon of cream of tartar

? cup of all-purpose flour

? cup of oat flour

⅓ teaspoon of salt

1 egg and 1 extra egg yolk

⅔ cup of cream cheese

2 tablespoons of chia seeds

1 cup of cherry pie filling or more if desired

Directions

To start, you should set the oven to a temperature of 350 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 175 degrees Celsius if your oven is in Celsius.

Then it is time to grease your cake pan to prevent the cherry and cream cheese coffee cake from sticking to the pan. In order to do this, use some butter to grease the pan. Next, you will add a light dusting of flour to the pan. It is ideal to use a round pan that is 9 inches in size for this particular dessert.

Combine the mascarpone and the butter well in a bowl, but do this gently. In another bowl, combine the yogurt and the sour cream. Then add this mixture to the mascarpone and butter that you already combined together.

Use a small bowl to blend the egg yolk and egg until frothy. Add the honey to the egg mixture.

Then transfer the egg and honey mixture into your main mixture of the other ingredients that you already combined.

In a separate bowl, combine the all-purpose flour, the oat flour, the baking powder and the cream of tartar.

Once those dry ingredients are well combined, pour them into your wet mixture and mix everything well.

In a bowl, mix the chia seeds and the cherry pie filling. Then spread the cherry pie filling and chia seed mixture on the base of the pan that you have already greased.

Now it is to place the main batter on top of the cherry pie filling and chia seed mixture.

Next, you will add the cream cheese to the batter. You can use a fork to help with blending the cream cheese into the batter. Or use a knife if you find that would be better for you.

Furthermore, you can add fresh or frozen diced cherries on top of this layer according to your desired amount for extra cherry flavor if you desire.

Finally, another nice option to elevate this fabulous dessert even more is to add a topping, which you can do by mixing ⅓ cup of oat flour, ¼ cup of honey and ¼ cup of melted butter and then placing it on top of the dessert. Enjoy!