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Sweet Cherry and Corn Cake

Sweet cherries and sweet corn in a lightly corn-y sweet base with a corn crumble topping.

Ingredients
  

for the cake:

  • 1 1/4 cup flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ¾ teaspoon salt
  • 1/3 cup cornmeal
  • 2 large eggs
  • ⅔ cup milk
  • ½ cup canola oil
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 cups pitted and halved sweet cherries
  • one cob of corn's worth of kernels about 2/3 cup

for the crumb topping:

  • one cob of corn's worth of kernels about 2/3 cup
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 3 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • pinch salt
  • 4 tablespoons butter melted and cooled

Instructions
 

For the cake:

  • Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour a 9-inch spring form pan.
  • In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and cornmeal.
  • In a second bowl, beat together the eggs, milk, oil, vanilla and sugar until smooth and frothy.
  • Beat the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until a smooth batter forms. Fold in the corn and cherries.

For the crumb topping:

  • Place all the ingredients for the topping in a small bowl and mix with a fork until coarse crumbs formed.
  • Pour the batter in the prepared pan. Sprinkle with the crumbs in an even layer.
  • Bake for 55 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean or with a few dry crumbs.
  • Cool in pan for five minutes then release and cool completely.