Cherry Vanilla Breakfast Cake

Ingredients:
- 2-1/2 cups All-purpose Flour
- 1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
- 1/2 teaspoons Salt
- 3/4 cups Granulated Sugar, Plus Extra To Sprinkle On Top
- 2 whole Eggs
- 1 whole Vanilla Bean, Seeds Scraped Out (Or Extract)
- 1 cup Buttermilk
- 4 Tablespoons Melted Butter
- 1 cup Sweet Cherries, Pitted And Halved

Directions:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Butter and flour a 9-inch baking pan.
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Whisk together well then set aside.
- Beat the eggs until foamy, add the vanilla bean seeds (or extract), buttermilk and melted butter. Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and mix until combined. Batter will be thick; be careful not to over-mix.
- Spread batter into baking pan and sprinkle cherries over top, pressing in gently. Sprinkle an additional tablespoon of sugar over the cake and bake for 30-35 minutes, or until golden and the sides begin to pull away from the pan.