Southern Cherry Cobbler

🧂 Ingredients

• 8 cups cherries

  pitted, halved
• 1 tsp. lemon juice
• 1 tsp. almond extract
• 2 tsp. cornstarch
• 1/4 cup brown sugar

  packed
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 2 cups UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour

  (bleached flour toughens baked goods)
• 1/2 cup brown sugar

  packed
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. sea salt
• 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter

  cold (3/4 cup or 12-tbsp.)
• 1/3 to 1/2 cup boiling water
• 3 tbsp. granulated sugar

Instructions

• 1 Preheat oven to 400°.
• 2 Halve cherries and pit.
• 3 Place in a large mixing bowl.
• 4 Add sugars, corn starch, lemon juice and almond extract and stir to combine.
• 5 Spray a 9x13” glass baking dish with cooking spray.
• 6 Pour cherry mixture into prepared baking dish.
• 7 Bake for 10 minutes.
• 8 Remove from oven.
• 9 Meanwhile, prepare topping.
• 10 Dollop topping over top of hot cherries.
• 11 Sprinkle with Sugar Topping.
• 12 Bake an additional 30-40 minutes or until cherries are cooked through when
  tested with a fork, and topping is golden brown.
• 13 Mix flour, sugars, baking powder and salt with a wooden spoon until well
  combined.
• 14 Cut in butter with a pastry blender until coarse crumbs form.
• 15 Add boiling water and stir just until moistened. (Add only enough boiling water
  to moisten ingredients).
• 16 (This mixture is moist. It is not like a crumb topping).
• 17 Dollop topping over top of hot cherry mixture.
• 18 Sprinkle with Sugar Topping.
• 19 Bake at 400° an additional 30-40 minutes or until done.
• 20 Sprinkle sugar topping evenly over regular topping before baking.

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