The Best Vegan Cherry Crumble Cake

🧂 Ingredients

• 3 ⅓ cup flour

  all-purpose, spelt or gluten-free brand
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 pinch of salt
• ¾ cup sugar
• ½ tbsp vanilla sugar

  or 1-2 tsp vanilla extract
• 8.5 oz vegan butter

  cold & diced
• 24.7 oz canned cherries*

  pitted and drained
• 500 ml cherry juice

  from the cherries
• 10 tbsp cornstarch

  or vanilla pudding powder
• 4 tbsp sugar
• 4 tbsp slivered almonds

Instructions

• 1 Lightly grease the sides of a 10.2-inch (26 cm) springform pan and line the
  bottom with parchment paper.
• 2 In a bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt, sugar and vanilla sugar. Add
  the cold diced vegan butter and knead briefly with your hands (or with the dough
  hooks of a food processor or hand mixer) until you have a crumbly dough. Press
  about ⅔ of the dough evenly into the prepared baking pan, forming a high rim
  (this is most easily done with the back of a tablespoon as shown in the video).
• 3 Then place the baking pan and the bowl with the remaining crumble dough in the
  refrigerator and prepare the filling in the meantime.
• 4 Drain the cherries in a sieve, reserving the juice. Bring 400 ml of cherry juice
  to a boil in a saucepan. In a measuring cup, stir the remaining 100 ml of cherry
  juice with the cornstarch until smooth. Once the cherry juice in the pot comes
  to a boil, briefly turn off the heat and stir in the cornstarch mixture with the
  sugar. Turn the stove on and bring the mixture to a boil again, stirring until
  it thickens. Then remove from the heat, fold in the cherries and let the compote
  cool a bit.
• 5 In the meantime, preheat the oven to 356 °F (180 °C).
• 6 Take the baking pan with the dough out of the refrigerator. Prick the bottom a
  few times with a fork. Spread the cherry compote on top and smooth it out.
  Sprinkle the rest of the crumble dough on top, and optionally some slivered
  almonds and a little brown sugar. Bake the cake for 45-50 minutes, until the
  crumble topping is lightly browned (if the cake gets too dark, cover the top
  with parchment paper. I cover it after 20 minutes).
• 7 Remove the cake from the oven and let it cool completely on a cooling rack.
• 8 Once the cake has cooled completely and is set, you can cut it into pieces and
  dust with powdered sugar as desired and/or serve with a scoop of vanilla ice
  cream or a dollop of yogurt.
• 9 Enjoy!

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