No-Bake Cherry Crisp

Name: No-Bake Cherry Crisp
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 3/4 cup, sliced almonds; 2/3 cup (3 1/3 ounces; 94 grams), all-purpose flour; 1/4 cup packed (1 3/4 ounce; 50 grams), light brown sugar; 1/4 cup (1 3/4 ounces; 50 grams), granulated sugar; 1/2 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1/4 teaspoon, ground cinnamon; 1/4 teaspoon, salt; 6 tablespoons, unsalted butter, melted; 1/3 cup (2 1/3 ounces; 66 grams), granulated sugar; 1 tablespoon, cornstarch; 2 pounds (907 grams) frozen, sweet cherries; 1 tablespoon, lemon juice; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1/2 teaspoon, salt; 1/4 teaspoon, almond extract; 2/3 cup, dried cherries

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Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2014

Desserts or Baked Goods

Fruit Desserts

To speed up and streamline our cherry crisp, we had to think outside the oven.

SERVES6

TIME45 minutes, plus 30 minutes cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Most fruit crisps are baked in the oven, but versions of this sweet cherry crisp either had stodgy, sticky fillings, or boiled over the topping, making it soggy. After testing various methods, we found that the best was actually the easiest...

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