Cherry Rhubarb Coffee Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 4 cups rhubarb
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup cornstarch
• 20 ounces cherry pie filling
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup butter
• 2 eggs, slightly beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup butter

Recipe

• 1 in a saucepan, cook rhubarb and lemon juice over medium low heat for 5 minutes -- stirring often to prevent burining.
• 2 combine sugar and cornstarch; add to rhubarb mixture.
• 3 cook and stir 5 minutes more until thickened and bubbly.
• 4 stir in pie filling.set aside to cool.
• 5 to prepare cake:.
• 6 combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl -- cut in butter until mixture resembles fine crumbs.
• 7 in a mixing bowl, beat buttermilk, eggs and vanilla.
• 8 add to flour mixture, stir just until mixture is moistened.
• 9 spread a little more than half of the batter into a greased 13x9 pan.
• 10 spread cooled filling over batter.
• 11 drop remaining batter by tspful onto filling.
• 12 to topping, combine sugar and flour.cut in butter until mixture forms coarse crumbs.
• 13 sprinkle over batter.
• 14 bake at 350* for 40-45 minutes.