Reviewed: May 27, 2012

Great recipe and very easy to alter. I had 6 C of fresh cherries on hand so I increased the ingredients by half. Also, took the advice of other reviewers and decreased the sugar and added vanilla but should have cut way back on the butter. I used a 10X13 baking dish and baked for 55 min. It came out almost custard-like but very yummy! Will cut back the butter next time around.

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Karen Weber

Cooking Level: Expert

Living In: Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA

Reviewed: May 23, 2012

Wow. My 12yo daughter called me at work to tell me she had picked cherries off the tree in our yard and wanted to make a dessert with them. I did a quick search and pointed her to this recipe -- she made it by herself and the whole family raved!!!! She didn't change a thing, and it really tasted like cobbler to me!

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taradasha

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Reviewed: May 10, 2012

Wish I read the reviews first. Definitely needs twice the cherries and half the sugar. I will try it again since we have a cherry tree brimming with fruit right now!

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Susie Q

Reviewed: Mar. 14, 2012

Here are my changes and it came out great! I work with police officers and they couldn't get enough of it! I used 5tbs of butter, 2 Cups flour, 1 1/2 Cups sugar, 2 Tsp baking powder, 2 tsp all spice, 2 tsp cinnomon, 2 Cups milk, and almost 3 whole cans of cherries. I baked it in a 9X13 pan for 1 hour 10 mins @345 but my oven runs a little hot... hope this helps for those of you wanting to cook it in the bigger pan.

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dreamlies

Reviewed: Jan. 12, 2012

Tried this recipe, and it was very good, but don't bake it that long! A toothpick inserted into a cobbler should NEVER come out clean... that's more of a fruit bar.

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Zannie

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

Reviewed: Nov. 25, 2011

i followed the recipe completely except for only adding extra cherries. after an hour and 45 minutes, it still wasn't done, but i took it out anyway. ironically, my family loved it! they had never had cobbler before, and they loved the custard-like texture. i will try again to see if i can make a "true" cobbler though in the future.

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SarahJo

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Sep. 17, 2011

I made this for dinner last night. Based on the reviews that I read and the fact that we do not like our dessert too sweet I did make a couple of changes. I doubled the cherries to 4 cups, I did 1 1/2 times the recipe for the top and cut the sugar almost in half. I added cinnamon and vanilla based on the majority of reviews that I read. The butter bubbled up around the sides of the pan, spilled out in the oven and resulted in a tough texture on the edges of the cake. This would be better defined as an upside down cake rather than a cobbler. It was just ok and I will not make this again. I bake regularly and my family felt that in comparison to what I normally bake they would rate it a 2 or a 3 out of 5.

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Colinda

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

Reviewed: Aug. 7, 2011

Very Good. Easy to make. Only used half of the sugar and it's sweet enough. Can't stop eating it!

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Cooking Level: Beginning

Living In: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Reviewed: Aug. 4, 2011

This recipe is not fool-proof, I guess. I am not sure what I did wrong, but the bottom was very hard. It was like all the sugar sunk to the bottom and then carmalized after baking. It still tasted good, just was difficult to eat without using a knife. I added vanilla extract and a little cinnamon for flavoring and used about 1/4 cup less sugar overall. I think if I made this again I would first put the cherries in the baking dish, then the cobbler part on top of them. Maybe that would help the hardness on the bottom???

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Leah

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Portage, Michigan, USA

Living In: Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Reviewed: Aug. 1, 2011

This was so simple and tasted great! I added a cup of oats and brown sugar as well. I will make this every year during Cherry season. I love fresh Michigan Cherries!

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