Cherry Kuchen (Pronounced Ku-Kah By My Family) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

Dough Ingredients
2 beaten eggs
3/4 cup water (105-115 degrees)
1 (1/4 ounce) package dry yeast
4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 1/2 teaspoons cardamom powder
Topping Ingredients
1 (14 1/2 ounce) can pitted tart cherries (or other any other fruit)
1/4 cup butter
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar (or splenda sweetener)

Preparation

Add water to beaten eggs and dissolve dry yeast in this mixture. Let all these ingredients rest refrigerated for 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, blend with a pastry blender or by hand flour, salt, sugar, butter and cardamom.
In a large mixing bowl, make a ring of blended flour. Pour chilled yeast mixture into the center and work it into dry ingredients. Knead until smooth, about 2 minutes. Form dough into ball and let rest, covered for about 20 minutes.
Roll out dough into 2 9x9 baking dishes. Push edges of dough up against dish to prevent fruit topping from spilling.
For topping, spread cherries over top of dough. With a pasty blender or fork, cut butter into flour and sugar until small crumbs of mixture are formed. Sprinkle crumb mixture over top of cherries.
Bake at 400 degrees for 20-25 minutes until topping begins to golden.