Treat everyone to a dessert of comfort food—warm tart cherries drizzled with amaretto and topped with fluffy dumplings. A scoop of vanilla ice cream is the perfect finishing touch.
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PREP: 15 MIN. • COOK: 7 3/4 HOURS • MAKES: 6 SERVINGS
2 cans (14 1/2 ounces each) pitted tart cherries
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup cornstarch
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup amaretto or 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
DUMPLINGS
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon grated lemon peel
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup 2% milk
3 tablespoons butter, melted
Vanilla ice cream, optional
1. Drain cherries, reserving 1/4 cup juice. Place cherries in a 3-qt. slow cooker.
2. In a small bowl, mix sugar, cornstarch and salt; stir in reserved juice until smooth. Stir into cherries. Cook, covered, on high 7 hours. Drizzle amaretto over the cherry mixture.
3. For dumplings, in a small bowl, whisk flour, sugar, baking powder, lemon peel and salt. In another bowl, whisk milk and melted butter. Add to the flour mixture; stir just until moistened.
4. Drop by tablespoonfuls on top of the hot cherry mixture. Cook, covered, for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center of dumplings comes out clean. If desired, serve warm with ice cream.