Cherry Muesli Crumble

Cherry Muesli crumble is an easy to prepare eggless baked dish, that falls in the category of a breakfast as well as a dessert. This is an absolutely tasty with fresh fruits and a bit of a cinnamon kick as well as with a crunchy muesli topping. You could prepare this before hand and use it for parties as well as to save time for making breakfast on busy days. Really simple quick and doesn't require any fancy ingredients to make this dish feels like a breeze while making this dish.
I have already shared Cherry Pudding (Clafoutis) recipe, Cherry Ice Cream, Cherry Banana Oats Smoothie recipes in my blog 2 years back at my first blog anniversary. Refer them too and make all these yummy summery cherry recipes at this season!

Cherry Muesli Crumble

Prep time

10 mins

Cook time

20 mins

Total time

30 mins

Author: Eliza Lincy
Cuisine: American
Category: Dessert, Breakfast, Baked desserts

Yields: 4 ramekins (or) 1 big pot

Ingredients

• Cherries, pitted- 250 gms
  Apple| pears, peeled- 1/2 (optional)
  Cinnamon powder- 1/2+ 1/2 teaspoon
  Honey| brown sugar- 1+ 2 tablespoons
  Whole Wheat Flour| atta- 2 tablespoon
  Muesli |Oats, rolled- 3 tablespoons
  Almonds, Chopped| flaked- 10 nos
  Butter| Coconut oil - 2 tablespoons

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 180 degrees for 10 minutes.
• Pit the cherries and roughly chop them. Peel the apple, core it , chop them into small pieces and keep them together in a bowl.
• Add a tablespoons of honey or brown sugar, cinnamon powder and mix well.

• In another bowl add the whole wheat flour, muesli, chopped almonds, cinnamon powder, honey, butter or coconut oil and knead with hands to combine well. This mixture should not be too crumbly or too wet. It should be mildly wet.

• In 4 ramekins or on a large baking pot fill the cherry mixture and then sprinkle the muesli mixture.

• Keep the ramekins or pots inside the preheated oven and bake them for 20-25 minutes till the top of the muesli starts to brown and crisp.

Notes

• You could make this crumble before hand , refrigerate and reheat and use it on the next day breakfast or dessert for parties. 
• Or serve chilled with whipping cream or topped with ice cream.
• Adding apple or pears in this recipe is optional but it adds volume to this dish.
• Add chopped nuts of your choice.
• Whole wheat flour could be replaced with all purpose flour.
• You could replace honey with regular sugar, brown sugar or maple syrup.

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Cherry Ice cream (Egg less)

       Cherries are now in season and it is a tasty versatile  fruit fits for almost all dessert recipes. I love these to eat it as such and it is a very pretty fruit used generally used for cake  and other desserts garnishing. It has so many preserved forms Maraschino sweetened cherries are made from dark coloured cherries and the Colored sweet cherries are made from light colour varieties.

       I used the dark variety to make this colorful ice cream. Here i have made the eggless easy version. You can try this ice cream with eggs too. Really an easy to make ice cream with no pain. A real colourful home made dessert perfect for summer.

INGREDIENTS:
Cherries- 1½ cup
Sugar- 1/4 cup
Condensed milk- 1/4 cup
Whipping cream- 500 ml

PROCEDURE:

• Wash the cherries and remove the seeds. If you do not have the pitting equipment you can cut and remove the seeds.
• In a pan add the cherries with sugar and cook. The sugar starts to melt and sweeten the cherries. With in 5-10 minutes you will get a thick sauce.

• Using masher slightly mash the pulp if needed.
• Remove from flame and allow to cool and puree the cherry sauce in a blender; set aside
• Chill the whipping cream before hand and the whipping vessel and the whisks.
• Transfer the condensed milk and the whipping cream into the chilled bowl and whip it till you starts to get stiff peaks; set aside.

• Stain the sauce to remove pieces falling in the ice cream. You can add as such but the ice cream will not get a uniform colour. If you donot strain the sauce you will get purple dots here and there in ice cream.

• Now add the strained cherry sauce and mix well using a whisk or electric beater.
• Transfer the cream mixture into a 500 ml capacity freezer safe tub. You could use ice cream tubs.
• Close it tightly and allow to freeze for an hour inside the freezer.

• Then remove the tub from freezer and whip it once again and close the tub and keep inside the freezer.
• Again remove the tubafter 1 hour from freezer and whip it and close the tub and keep inside the freezer.(This step prevents ice cream becomes hard and gives smooth texture to the ice cream)

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Cherry Banana Oats Smoothie/ Cherry Smoothie

        Cherry Banana Oats smoothie is a filling healthy breakfast drink. Can be prepared without much effort. So colourful and delicious drink. Banana adds sweetness to this drink. So you can prepare this drink without sugar also.

       Kids love this drink because it has a vibrant pink colour. I have prepared this smoothie using low fat yogurt. You can prepare with full fat if you want to. Healthy as well as easily digestible. Better way to start a day with light breakfast and keep active through out the day. Try this light and tasty breakfast drink and stay Healthy!!!

INGREDIENTS:

Cherries, pitted/ cut- 1/2 cup
Banana-1 big
Rolled oats/ Instant oats/ Quick cooking oats- 2 tablespoons
Thick yogurt/ curd- 1/2 cup (I used low fat)
Sugar- 1 teaspoon(optional)

PROCEDURE:

• Grind the oats in a blender as a fine powder.
• Keep the cherries inside the blender jar and blitz for a two to three times to grind coarsely to avoid big pieces.

• With this add the chopped banana pieces, powdered oats, chill yogurt and sugar; blend well till frothy and mixed well.

• Serve chilled.
• Notes: Using sugar in this recipe is optional.
• You can use low fat/ full fat yogurt for this recipe.

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Cherry Clafoutis/ Cherry Clafouti

Clafoutis (or) Clafouti is a Baked French Fruit based or Dessert traditionally made with Cherries covered a thin pancake like batter. It is a kind of pudding made with Flour or Almond meal and baked till golden brown top and Served warm with powdered sugar on top. It is otherwise called 'Cherry Pudding' or 'Cherry sponge pudding'.

 It is a seasonal dessert prepared when cherries are in season especially at summer. Super easy baked dessert prepared without much effort. Made with pitted/ cut fresh cherries. I am making this dessert for my Blogs First Anniversary.

INGREDIENTS:

Fresh Cherries, pitted/cut- 1/2 cup
Eggs- 2
Sugar- 1/2 cup+6 teaspoons to sprinkle
Salt- pinch
Milk- 1 cup
Vanilla extract- 1/2 teaspoon
Melted Butter- 3 tablespoons
Butter, to grease- 1 teaspoon
All purpose flour- 1/2 cup
Corn flour- 1/2 teaspoon

PROCEDURE:

• De seed the cherries by pitting or cutting them by make a slit all around the cherry and twist them and remove the seed using a knife.
• Break two eggs and beat them using a balloon whisk till fluffy and add sugar and salt mix well.

• Add the milk and vanilla extract and melted butter; mix well.
• Mix All purpose flour and corn flour and sift/sieve the flour well to mix evenly.
• Add the flour mixture a tablespoon at a time and mix well without any lumps.

• Now the batter will be thin similar like a pan cake batter.
• Take six small tart tins or two medium sized tart tins and apply butter and add sprinkle some sugar at the bottom as a even layer.

• Spread the cut cherries evenly and arrange the tart tins in a tray and pour the batter three fourth of the tart tin. If you use medium or large tins keep the cherries arranged tins inside the oven and pour the batter on top.

• Bake them on 180 degree till the claufoutis becomes light brown on top around 20 to 25 minutes.
• Sprinkle some icing sugar on top and serve them warm.

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