Blueberry cake recipe
Need a delicious and easy to make morning treat? This blueberry cake recipe is a great cake, all year round!
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter room temperature
- zest from 1 lemon
- zest from 1 orange
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 large egg room temperature
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 2 cups cake flour set aside 3 tbsp to toss with blueberries
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1/4 cup coconut flakes
- 2 cups blueberries fresh and firm
- ½ cup buttermilk
- sugar for sprinkling
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F and grease a 9" square casserole with butter.
- Cream butter with powdered sugar until light and fluffy. Cream thoroughly, this is an important to make your cake fluffy. Add in the orange and lemon zest and vanilla extract then mix until incorporated.
- Add the egg and beat until combined.
- Toss the blueberries with flour, then whisk together the remaining flour, baking powder, salt and coconut
- Add the butter mix and buttermilk to the flour and mix well.
- Gently fold in the blueberries.
- Spread batter into pan and sprinkle with sugar.
- Bake for 35 to 45 minutes. Check the center with a toothpick. You may need to bake for extra 10 minutes is necessary.
- Let cool at least 15 minutes before serving. It may crumble (in which case serve using a teaspoon as I did) so you might wanna cool completely before cutting and serving.
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Nutrition
Serving: 1sliceCalories: 294kcalCarbohydrates: 40gProtein: 5gFat: 13gSaturated Fat: 8gCholesterol: 47mgSodium: 353mgPotassium: 91mgFiber: 2gSugar: 17gVitamin A: 381IUVitamin C: 3mgCalcium: 92mgIron: 1mg
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