 Hey y'all, I'm Tammy and this is Collard Valley Cooks. Today we're making one of my favorites, a good old coffee cake. Nothing's better than a cup of coffee and a fresh coffee cake. Today we're going to make a cherry one. Okay, we're going to start by opening our cherry filling, can of cherry filling. Going to need a white cake mix, some all-purpose flour for this and you'll also need some warm water and a pack of yeast, pack of yeast. And then for the topping you're going to need some sugar, some butter, and you're going to use part of your cake mix. I'm just going to reserve a half cup. Now if you get a white cake mix, you get more cake mix, but the Pillsbury does. It has more ounces in it, so if you can, buy the one that has 15.25 ounces in it and that way you'll get a little bit more cake batter. If not, it's fine. Just put in a half cup. Now after you reserve that, you're just going to put your cake mix in the bowl, open a pack of yeast, put in a cup of all-purpose flour. This is not a cake, it's a bread, so that's what gives it that bread texture and you're just going to, I'm going to whisk that together a little bit first. It's going to be good. Super simple, y'all. Now we're just going to put in two eggs, two-third cups of water. We're going to mix it up. Now you can use a blender if you want to. I'm just going to use this whisk. Let me get out my dough whisk. Probably be a good time to use it. Yeah, that's much better because it's more like a bread dough. Now what you're going to do is get the batter off your fingers and spray the pan. So we're going to spray the pan with some baker's joy. You can graze and flour it if you want to. This is a 13 by 9 by 2 standard baking pan and now what we're going to do is put our batter in here and spread it out evenly. Make sure I get it all. We're just going to spread it in here good. Remember this is a coffee cake, so not going to be quite as sweet as a cake because of the cup of flour that we put in there, but boy it's going to be delicious. It's even going to have that yeast in there so it'll just taste so good. So just do your best at spreading it in there evenly. The oven needs to be preheated to 375 degrees. All right, so now we're going to take our cherry filling and we're going to dollop it on the top and I know a lot of y'all are going to want to know, can I add cream cheese? Well, of course you can. So if you love coffee cake like I do, oh my gosh, it's my weakness. I'd rather sit down and have a cup of coffee and have a piece of coffee cake than eat dinner any day. So this is going to be a fun recipe for you. It's easy and it's going to be absolutely delicious and much fresher than what you would get if you went in a store and got it. If you're wanting to know how to add the cream cheese, I'm going to go ahead and tell you that it's super sweet with all that cherry filling on the top. I personally would just cut it up in little squares and drop them on top of the coffee cake and let it bake in there with it. That's what I would do. But now if you want to, you can mix it up just a little bit of sugar and then dollop it on the top. All right, if you want to know how much, eight ounces, with about a quarter cup of sugar, mix it with your mixer and dollop it on the top. So I'm going to set this right here and now what we're going to do is take that cake mix that we reserved. We're going to put in five tablespoons of butter. Let's just put a half a stick in there. It's a quarter cut. I think that'd suffice plenty. And now we're just going to use a blending fork and blend this in with our cake mix until it's crumbly. It's a lot of butter. So a half a cup of cake mix, I'll do it. Just use the rest of the cake mix in your batter. Now I'm going to take two tablespoons of sugar and sprinkle in here and just try to beat it up a little bit. That's for streusel. We're going to take this and sprinkle it on there. Don't that look good? Looks amazing. Now whether you dollop the cherries on there or make little rows like I did, it'll be good. That's all there is to it. Let's get it all in there. Then we're going to slide it in the oven and bake it. And it should bake in about 30 minutes. Our coffee cake is ready. And boy, it is starving me. It smells so good. I had my oven on convection. So it got really brown because you bake it at 375. We're going to make some glaze and put on it and cut us a piece where it's going to be so good. So I'm going to bring y'all up close so y'all can watch me make the glaze. All right. For the glaze, a tablespoon of water. This is a cup of powdered sugar and they're telling us to use a tablespoon of corn. I'm just going to pour it in there. I'm going to mix this up for our glaze and the glaze is optional. I'm going to put in some more water. It's another tablespoon of water. So we'll make it two tablespoons. We're just going to mix this up really good. Try to get it smooth. It said if it's lumpy, you can set it, but I didn't want to. Now, I did get a little brown because my oven was on convection. So the next time I'll make sure it turned down the temp 25 degrees. Okay. Now we're going to get us a bite. Good. That is absolutely delicious. And I'm going to be honest with you, it'd be even better with a little cream cheese. So put some on there. All right. This is the first time I made this recipe. And so I do think I would add a little cream cheese on the top. If you don't like cream cheese, then of course, leave it off. We just thank you so much for watching Collar Valley Cooks where we cook like our momma's dad. Y'all come back and see us down here in Georgia. Love you. Bye.