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.
Nutrition Information per Serving
I have also dreamed of many “midnight acquistions” of others’ fruit, but decide against them, for fear I will be caught. Love the photo; wonderful purple and red tones.
A Chocolate Cherry Crisp recipe is looking simple and yummy.
Love this post! You had me smiling picturing your wife as a “fruit thief”! Learning so much from you both, recipes & photography are wonderful, thank you! Hope to attend one of your seminars one day.
this looks delicios!
I’m a sucker for cherries – your food photography really does them justice!
What a sweet love letter to Diane. It also doesn’t hurt that it’s about cherries, crisp, and obsession with sweet fruit (a handful of my favorite things)! Thanks for sharing that sweet, behind the scenes fruit-stealing story about Diane. Lovely.
I must express a different opinion : while the dessert looks as enticing as they come it’s not always cool to poach fruit. We have a peach tree that is prolific. But we have only had the pleasure of cooking or giving away the peaches once in over 15 years. The fruit is stolen every time – the tree stripped. It might be a thrill to the poachers, but it feels mean spirited. If someone would ask most likely we’d offer up a handful. But taking someones harvest is nothing to crow about.
How I wish I had a HUGE bag full of cherries right now so that I can bake this!!
Looks perfect… I love the colours and cherries with chocolates sounds divine!
Growing up, we had several prolific fruit trees and they were always attacked by the neighborhood kids each summer. It wasn’t quite a pleasant experience, especially when they’re climbing over the chain link fence to get at our plums. If they had asked, we would have been glad to give them a bucketful since we really did get a ton every year but they seemed to like trespassing and destroying our tulips. Nowadays, I’m older and much more charitable (what can you do when they’re just little kids?) but at the time, I was very vexed and more than a little freaked out by the intrusion.
On a brighter note, I actually live in on the Oregon side of the Columbia Gorge and the cherries have finally ripened here! It’s always such a delight to get cherries as gifts from friends since we don’t have any trees of our own. Or when they invite us over to pick as many cherries as we like — that’s also quite awesome.
I love cherries and I love chocolates. What better way to enjoy them both at the same time than with chocolate cherry crisp recipe.
Diane the fruit burglar! Great story telling, Todd!
Prior to my most recent move, my neighbor had bushes of blackberries along his driveway. I asked him if he was nervous about people taking them since they were in his front yard. He said that is why he kept him there. I think Diane would have loved his sharing approach to his fruit.
Love your photos! The BEST!
I confess. I admit to fruit thievery (at times and when possibly appropriate). I even have specified seasonal routes through my neighborhood to hit up various seemingly abandoned fruit trees that ripen in certain months and just “happen” to overhang a fence into what might be construed as a public place. When no ones looking of course 🙂
hahaha i wish i was brave enough to steal amazing looking fruit every time i see it! 🙂 this looks stunning and worth the risk of getting caught. who wouldn’t love the addition of chocolate!?! yum!
This looks so delicious! Bet it would so tasty as toppings for oats. Any single day 🙂