Chocolate Cherry Crisp
Easy Chocolate Cherry Crisp Recipe
We love our road trips to visit fruit stands. Take a road-trip this time of year and we’re always about finding plump sweet cherries. Diane loves cherries. She gets all gushy over them in ways that is all sorts of cute. The first time we were up visiting my dad together, it took her a whole 5 seconds to spot a random cherry tree growing in the ditch turning towards Dad’s place. She immediately decided we needed to take a nighttime stroll that evening.
Every time we pass a cherry tree, Diane is immediately taking in the 411. Cherries are never the same since teaming up someone who is as obsessed with sweet fruit as the two of us are together
As with most fruit, our favorite way of enjoying cherries is to immediately eat the cherries. However, occasionally we’ll launder the goods by baking them. What better way, than with my all-time favorite country-style dessert, a crisp. A perfect topping made with brown sugar, butter, flour and oats concealing the ill-gotten gains laced with dark chocolate chips. A Chocolate Cherry Crisp to bake, share and enjoy Summer.
-Todd
Here’s a coconut milk and cherry popsicles recipe for ya.
This recipe was originally published in 2011 and re-published in 2020 for the Summer season.
Chocolate Cherry Crisp Recipe
Ingredients
Topping
- 1 cup (125g) all-purpose Flour
- 1/4 cup (55g) packed Brown Sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon (3g) Kosher Salt
- 6 Tablespoons (85g) cold, unsalted Butter , cut into small pieces
- 2/3 cup (65g) old-fashioned Rolled Oats
Filling
- 2 lbs fresh Cherries , pitted and halved
- 1 cup (180g) Chocolate Chips , preferrably dark chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup (50g) Sugar
- 3 Tablespoons (45g) Flour
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- Make Crisp Topping: In a large bowl, mix together flour, brown sugar, and salt. Pinch butter into flour, using your fingers or a pastry blender until mixture is the texture of coarse meal. Add oats and using your hands, pinch and mix in oats until they are evenly incorporated.If not making the crisp right away, keep chilled in fridge until ready to top the crisp.
- Make Crisp Filling: (If desired, set aside a handful of cherries to decorate the top of the crisp.) In another bowl, toss cherries with chocolate chips, sugar and flour. Place the filling in a 2-quart baking dish.
- Top the filling with the crisp topping. Place reserved cherries to decorate top of crisp. Put baking dish on a baking sheet pan to catch any bubble-overs when it bakes.
- Bake for 45-60 minutes, or until golden and bubbly. Let cool 20 minutes & serve warm or allow to cool to room temperature before serving.
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Great post! I can relate as I’ve been burgling blackberries all over the neighborhood lately. I can’t wait to try this recipe. I make fruit crisps all the time, but have never ventured into the chocolate territory…sounds brilliant.
I too love to surf the neighborhood for the old forgotten fruit vines, bushes and trees in the homes owned by a 3rd or 4th generation. Often, they don’t eat that fruit because it doesn’t look like the ones from the big box grocery. I love to can and just finished 24 jars of fig preserves, 12 jars of Pear Jam, 12 jars of Pear Jelly and 10 jars of Fig Jelly( Pesky little seeds!!!). Wish I had access to such plentiful cherries. Not too many of those tress here near Atlanta, Georgia.
Enjoy!!
Diane has a long-lost fruit burglar sister in Northern CA. With all the local garden shares, it feels as if I’m saving my neighbors any extra work by taking some off their hands a couple days early. Chocolate and cherry — does a better combination exist? I think not.
Brings back memories of my long departed maternal Grandmother – road trips tpically involved a pillow slip and walnuts…
Perfect timing – we just bought a pound of fresh sweet cherries. I can’t wait to make this crisp – I love how simple the ingredient list is. ๐
OHHHH That looks incredible! (and I have that same pit remover ยฟ? thing) And I also have some cherries left…
I will try this for sure.
Hugs from Spain
Too cute. I can just picture the two of you, Pink Panther music playing in the background…LOL!
I am completely mesmerised with this… it’s won my heart. We are way past cherry season here. I am tempted to try this with plums. Oh the colours … wow!
This is a great post, and I could dive right in that crisp! Yum!
This post made me laugh. i can just picture her climbing fences just to steal a piece of fruit. The dish looks delicious too!
Deaaaar goodness, I could take a nap inside that thing. YUM.
I wrote a tribute to cherries this season, too. I’m with Diane. So worth stealing. You had me at “The Fruit Burglar.”
Cherries are so delicious. If there was an abundance growing near me, they wouldn’t be safe either.
cherries n chocolate. what could be better? it’s why i’m obsessed with cherry garcia!
This looks sooo good!
I love cherries. They are summer’s magic! I always eat them as-is rather than baking with them b/c 1. they are just too good and I never actually get to needing to “use them up” by baking something and 2. I hate de-pitting them!
But oh I love me a good crumble/cobbler. This looks awesome!
And I am in Boulder! See you in the morning!
That looks amazing! And with chocolate noless! I love cherries too and have been making cherry turnovers quite frequently lately, but without the luck of the pitter. Have to get one of those tools. It would make the task so much easier!