Recipe for Cherry Oatmeal Crisp
We picked up a big bag of Rainier cherries at the farmer’s market on Saturday. They are sweet and juicy. I have been mixing them into my Greek yogurt this week. I also made individual cherry crisps for dessert.
I love making mini or individual desserts. Everyone feels special because they get their own and it is great portion control. I used our little white ramekin dishes. I pitted the cherries and made an easy oat topping-old fashioned oats, flour, cinnamon, brown sugar, a pinch of salt, and butter. The little crisps bubbled up in no time. I served them with a dallop of vanilla frozen yogurt.
We ate our cherry crisps outside on our patio. Summer, I love you!
Oh and I pitted the cherries by hand-the old school way. I really need to invest in a cherry pitter. Does anyone have one? Do they work well?
Makes 3 individual crisps-we used small ramekins. You can double or triple it for one large crisp or more individual ones.
About 1 1/2 cups Rainer cherries, pitted and halved
2 T sugar
1 T flour
3/4 cup old fashioned oats
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
Pinch of salt
2 T. flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 T. cold butter-cut in small pieces
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray ramekins with cooking spray.
2. In a small bowl sprinkle the cherries with the 2 T of sugar and flour. Mix well. Let sit while you make the oat topping.
3. In a small bowl add the oats, cinnamon, salt, flour, and brown sugar. Stir.
4. Add the butter to the oat mix. Mix with your hands until you have a crumbly mixture.
5. Pour sugared cherries into the sprayed ramekins. Make sure each one is even. Add the oat topping.
6. Place ramekins on a baking sheet and bake for 20-30 minutes. Until they are bubbling.
7. Cool for a minute and serve. We added a dallop of vanilla frozen yogurt:)
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I love crisps! This looks delicious and such a fantastic photo!
A delicious crisp! Today, I made something very similar…
Cheers,
Rosa
Ow! I love individual desserts too- they do make everyone feel special
I LOVE Rainier cherries! I just tried them for the first time at MIL's house this past weekend, and I am hooked!
I still remember the taste of Rainer cherry when I worked as a cherry picker 3 years ago in BC.
A cherry pitter was such a good investment as far as I'm concerned. I pitted 8 cups of cherries for jam last week & it made much quicker work of it.
This is the first year I've made cherry crisp & now I'm seeing them everywhere, so good
I love these blush cherries you used. It's a good as you described.
Cherry pitters…buy a really good one as any of the ones I bought broke quickly.
Yummy! Love fresh cherries like that!
They do work well, my family canned them when we were growing up.. all kinds, vans, royal annes, bing & pie…. I can find out for you what my mom has, because she just used it last week!..
I love individual desserts. These sound delicious!
Yes, with ice cream, this is for me! Perfect!
A mini crisp eaten outside = heaven.
What a delicious treat these are with fresh cherries, yummy!
Yum! This looks great! I have an OXO brand hand-held cherry pitter and love it! It really cuts down on the time it takes to prep cherries!
WHat a lovely way to enjoy fresh cherrys! I think these look so pretty!
These look delicious! I hand pitted cherries for my apple cherry pie since I wasn't at home and it made me remember how useful it is to have one. I def recommend getting one!
These look so good! Which Farmer's market did you go to?
Thanks everyone! Glad some of you have cherry pitters and like them. I will have to purchase one.
Frieda-I go to the market at Pioneer Park, downtown SLC. It is my favorite!
I am obsessed with this… I think I might have to make an apple crisp tonight!
This looks amazing!! And I'm absolutely going to have to check out those oatmeal cookies below!
Fruit crisps are the best. Your cherry version looks yummy!
I love that last picture with the little cherry sitting on top! Nice recipe. Crisps are the best for summer enjoyment.
My family and I are going to SLC this weekend and Lagoon! Any nice good and cheap restraunts you might recommend!
I so often want to make cherry desserts, but I don't have a cherry pitter and never want to do the hard labor! Kudos to you! That looks great!
wow those are some gorgeous photos! you should enter them in my best foodie foto contest. details are here http://heywhatsfordinnermom.blogspot.com/2009/07/answers-prizes-and-another-20-minute.html
Oh, these look incredible! I need to pick up some rainier cherries! I love the little ramekins!
oxo handheld cherry pitter is the best! we have a ranier cherry orchard here in calif (2000 trees). we've already harvested in may so next year i will have to try your crisp it looks yummy!
i love crisps. i love cherries. the trouble with your individual portions is that it probably wouldn't be enough to sustain me and all my love for crisps and cherries. they look just lovely, and good for you for doing it all by hand.
LOVE crisps (I have one up on my blog right now!) and cherries are my favorite summer fruit — I'll have to try this!
I love how you make just enough. I need to learn to do that. When I was growing up my mother always said, if your gonna heat up the oven, you might as well double the recipe. It's hard to get her voice out of my head and I'm only cooking for 3. (sigh)
your crisp looks wonderful. I love cherries!
I'm a big fan of fruit crisps. This one looks delicious.
Cherry pitters cost 10-20 bucks and are SO WORTH IT. I picked up 7 or so pounds of bing cherries for canning a few weeks ago… we spent 10 minutes and canned about 10 cherries and then decided to walk to the grocery store for a cherry pitter. Definitely worth it.
I've never made a cherry crisp! That looks so good! I've also never tried Ranier Cherries. I always see them. Maybe I'll pick some up tonight!
delicious! I ve never seen cherries that colour. they re nice. I don t have a cherry pitter but I was so tempted to buy one this year.
I love Rainier cherries. Gorgeous crisp!
I just saw some of these cherries in the store today and wondered how they tasted! They are so pretty!
I made some cherry sorbet the other day, so so good!! I was wondering the same about the cherry pitter…my fingers were stained after pitting so many!
This looks delicious! My favorite type of dessert!
oooh oooh yum!!
aaah, cherries!!! personal size is awesome
I'm on a cherry kick right now, I can't stop buying (and eating!) them. Your crisp looks phenomenal, Maria!! Rainier cherries are especially wonderful.
I have a cherry pitter (OXO brand), I think it's definitely worth it when you're working with large quantities of cherries.
I just bought a big bag of Bing cherries that I need to use up. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow. Why did I buy a big bag? Because I just bought a cherry pitter from The Prepared Pantry (dot com). They've got great stuff there. They had free shipping (probably don't now), but I'm really liking the pitter. They seem hard to find in stores, but Amazon and everywhere else online has them.
This looks absolutely delicious! I love cherry crisp!
Yes we will be staying in down town SLC. We only have two full days so any good palce to eat you know of would be great! I heard of a place called Smooches that was on the Food Network.
Lovee all crisps and cobblers. I made a huge apple cobbler tonight. I know it is not apple season, but we do so love a good cobbler.
Gosh you are so sweet .
Thank you so much for all of the great information! I went to Tony Caputos Deli a few years ago and LOVED it. Im sure we will go there again!
And… Ha ha I did mean to say Mooches not Smooches!
So many choices, I will let you know where we go!
Your crisp looks great. I have a cherry pitter (little hand held thing that shoots the pit across the room). I highly recommend one. We have two and my sons shoot the pits at each other. It's a royal mess, but easier than me hand cutting up cherries!!
That looks so good! I love the mini crisps. I have an OXO Good Grips cherry pitter, I like it.
What cute little mini cherry crisp, they look delicious, I love Rainer cherries!
Wowowowow it looks so great!!! I should try to bake more often with cherries: the problem is that I cannot control myself and I eat them before I have the time to bake!
Cherry crisp sounds really delicious! About the cherry pitter, I don't why I don't have one. Maybe because I don't really bother to pit the them. I just use them whole with the pit.
You pitted the cherries by hand? I have a cherry pitter but have yet to use it. It was on sale.
~ingrid
Oh dear, do get a cherry pitter! Lovely crisps, I bet the oats and cinnamon were great with the sweet cherries!