Recipe: Versatile coffee cake can start the day or end it
This delicious coffee cake can be made with just about any fresh fruit. (Photos: Debbie Arrington)
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It's almost May, which means cherries will soon be rolling in.
This old-fashioned cherry coffee cake is sort of like a cobbler but with more spring and softness to the dough. The top mounds of batter expand and connect while still allowing bright cherry filling to bubble through on the edges.
Although traditional sour pie cherries will work, sweet cherries are absolutely luscious in this coffee cake. Bing cherries, America's favorite, arrive later in summer, but there are loads of early-harvest cherries that would be equally delicious in this breakfast pastry that doubles as dessert. Have a slice of it to start the day or to top it off (or any time in between).
Look for the early cherries at farmers markets and farm stands (or your own cherry trees).
Also try this recipe with chopped peaches, nectarines, apricots, apples, pears or blueberries. Adjust the cooking time for the filling as needed.
Cherry coffee cake
Makes 9 servings
Cook the fruit filling on top of the stove.
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Filling bubbles up around the edges of this cherry-packed cake. |
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Garden Checklist for week of May 5
Survey your garden after the May 4 rainstorm. Heavy rain and gusty winds can break the neck of large flowers such as roses. Also:
* Keep an eye on new transplants or seedlings; they could take a pounding from the rain.
* Watch out for powdery mildew. Warmth following moist conditions can cause this fungal disease to “bloom,” too. If you see a leaf that looks like it’s dusted with powdered sugar, snip it off.
* After the storm, start setting out tomato transplants, but wait on the peppers and eggplants (they want warmer nights). Pinch off any flowers on new transplants to make them concentrate on establishing roots instead of setting premature fruit.
* Trim dead flowers but not leaves from spring-flowering bulbs such as daffodils and tulips. Those leaves gather energy to create next year's flowers. Also, give the bulbs a fertilizer boost after bloom.
* Pinch chrysanthemums back to 12 inches for fall flowers. Cut old stems to the ground.
* Mulch around plants to conserve moisture and control weeds.
* From seed, plant beans, beets, cantaloupes, carrots, corn, cucumbers, melons, pumpkins, radishes and squash.
* Plant onion sets.
* In the flower garden, plant seeds for asters, cosmos, celosia, marigolds, salvia, sunflowers and zinnias. Transplant petunias, zinnias, geraniums and other summer bloomers.
* Plant perennials and dahlia tubers for summer bloom.
* Don’t wait; plant summer bulbs, such as gladiolus and tuberous begonias.
* Harvest cabbage, lettuce, peas and green onions.