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Happy National Cherry Popover Day!

Typically taking the form of a fluffy, hollow muffin-sized bread, popovers rely upon liquid-heavy base ingredients (milk, eggs, butter and flour) to create the intensive steam that leavens the batter into its fluffy texture. Baked in muffin pans or specialized, deeper popover pans, the baked goods take their name from the batter's ability to expand and "popover" the edges of the molds.

While today's food holiday focuses on cherry-flavored popovers, they can be flavored with anything from herbs and spices to cheese or fruit. For a quick and easy recipe -- which uses a pan for added simplicity, like the photograph pictured above -- check out Real Simple's Dried Cherry Popover recipe -- it will even adapt to a popover pan if you'd like individual servings.

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Believe it or not, there are actually greeting cards to celebrate this day. Amazing.

It's National Cherry Popover Day, the day when we all eat blueberry muffins. Oh, just kidding. But I'm actually having trouble finding a recipe for cherry popovers, even on the internets (I can't even find a picture of one). I've found several for popovers in general, but none for cherry.

Do you have a cherry popover recipe you can share with us, or maybe a fruit-filled popover recipe where we could substitute cherry? Let us know in the comments.