Sour Cherry Streusel Coffee Cake

Coffee cake is either a cake prepared with coffee or served with coffee. Thus a coffee cake does not necessarily contain coffee. Those served-with-coffee cakes are typically flavoured with cinnamon, nuts, and different kinds of fruit and very often have a crunchy streusel topping.

	Streusel
1 kg Frozen sour cherries, pitted angiesrecipes 100 g Sugar 25 g Cornstarch 4 tbsp Water	150 g German #405 flour 100 g Brown sugar 1 tsp Ground cinnamon 1/4 tsp Salt 100 g Unsalted butter, softened 1 portion / 26cm Sweet Crust

1. Line the bottom of a 26cm springform with parchment paper. Press the sweet crust dough evenly against the bottom and sides (up to 4cm high) of the prepared pan. Generously prick crust with fork. Cover and rest in fridge for 30 minutes.
   
   
2. Preheat the oven to 200C/400F. At the same time start preparing the streusel. Mix first 4 ingredients in a bowl. Add in softened butter and rub in with fingers until coarse crumbs
   
   angiesrecipes form. Bake the crust for 12 minutes. Remove and allow to cool.
   
   
3. In large saucepan, combine cherries, sugar, water and cornstarch. Cook, stirring about one minute. Transfer filling to cooled crust. Sprinkle streusel evenly over the cherries. Bake on middle rack of oven for 45 minutes or until top is golden. Place pan on a rack and let cool.