The Story:
My grandmother loved to bake when I was younger. But she wouldn’t make cookies or cakes, she always made pies and cobblers. Her cherry cobbler was what I remember most. The combination of the sweet cherries and the almond extract always seems to bring back a flood of memories. Granted, the memories include family reunions in the wilderness where dirt infiltrated everything except the food, but warm cherries just bring a sense of comfort.
Me and cobblers don’t get along too well, but muffins and I are best friends.
1 can cherry pie filling
1 teaspoon lemon juice
½ teaspoon almond extract
1 ½ cups flour
1/3 cup sugar
1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon soda
¼ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cinnamon
1 egg
2 tablespoon butter, melted and cooled
1 ¼ cups buttermilk (or milk and lemon juice)
½ cup cinnamon sugar
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Separate 1 cup of cherries from cherry pie filling. Mix in lemon juice and almond extract.
3. In a separate bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
4. Whisk together egg, butter and buttermilk in another bowl.
5. Mix together wet and dry ingredients. Do not over mix.
6. Fill greased muffins tins or muffins cups half full. Place 2-3 cherries on top and then cover with more batter.
7. Spoon cinnamon sugar over of muffins.
8. Bake for 20-25 minutes.
* If you don’t have buttermilk (which I didn’t), you can use 1 tablespoon lemon juice and just short of 1 ¼ cup of milk.
My grandmother always made cherry cobbler too. I can't wait to try these.
Thanks!
I tried these last night and we couldn't stop eating them. They were so yummy, and easy to make. My 4 year old and 2 year old loved putting the cherries in the middle. Thanks for the recipe!
Do you think I could use strawberries instead of cherries? Your blueberry pancake cupcakes are the only “muffins” my daughter will eat! We’re trying to see if she’ll eat another one of your wonderful creations
Yes, you can use strawberries. But use small ones of slice them into the batter. You don’t want them to fall to the bottom of the batter when they bake, so just make sure they aren’t too heavy.
Thank you
I appreciate you taking the time to reply!
My grandmother always made peach cobbler…and I am positive these muffins would work well with canned peaches instead of cherries…however I adore cherries, and cherry cobbler, (actually any kind of cobbler )…. so I will have to make both!!!! ^.^
So you don’t use the filling, just the cherries right?
Right!!!
I have a can of raspberrie filling. Any thoughts if they would work?
yes, that will work to mix in
So, I do not use the filling, just the cherries and I add them to each muffin as I fill the cups?