National Cherry Popover Day

National Cherry Popover Day celebrates the cherry popover, a light, airy pastry made from an egg batter and baked with cherries or served with a cherry filling. Popovers rise above the edge of a muffin or popover tin as they bake, creating a crisp exterior and a hollow center. The holiday is observed annually on September 1.

Popovers are often described as an American variation of British Yorkshire pudding. Their earliest known written reference is generally placed in an 1850 letter, while a popover recipe appeared in M. N. Henderson’s Practical Cooking in 1876. The exact origins of National Cherry Popover Day—and the identity of its creator—remain undocumented. Holiday Insights also found no congressional record or presidential proclamation confirming the day as an official national observance.

How to Observe National Cherry Popover Day

Celebrate by baking cherry popovers at home in a popover pan or muffin tin. You can also enjoy them with cherry preserves or a cherry topping; The Nibble’s cherry popover recipe offers one way to prepare the fruit mixture. If you would rather not bake, look for popovers at a local bakery, then share them with friends or family.

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