Blueberry Cake aka Blueberry Buckle!

This cake is family favourite! We would make it every summer whenever we had some fresh blueberries! It’s a soft buttery cake layered with blueberries and cinnamon streusel! the blueberries burst into the cake while it bakes making a delicious layer of blueberries and cinnamon in the middle! So good!

ALL the blueberries!

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Blueberry Cake

Recipe courtesy of my mama Patty Lotecki

Yield: one 9”x13” pan

Preheat your oven to 350*F

Streusel:

• 1/4 cup Butter

• 1 cup Brown Sugar

• 1 Tablespoon Cinnamon

Blueberry Layer:

• 2 cups Blueberries

• 1/2 cup Sugar

Cake:

• 3/4 cup soft Butter

• 3/4 cup Sugar

• 1/4 teaspoon Salt

• 1 teaspoon Baking Soda

• 1 teaspoon Baking Powder

• 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

• 2 Eggs

• 1 cup buttermilk (or sour cream, or yogurt, or 1 cup milk plus 1 teaspoon vinegar)

• 2 cups Flour

1. In a bowl combine your streusel ingredients (butter, brown sugar and cinnamon) by rubbing them together with your hands until combined. Set aside.

2. In a bowl combine your blueberry layer ingredients - blueberries and sugar. Toss to combine. Set aside.

3. In the bowl of a mixer place your butter, sugar, salt, baking soda, baking powder and vanilla. Whip until light and fluffy.

4. Add eggs one at a time, mixing between each egg until they are combined. Then give your bowl a scrape down and whip for a few more minutes or until light and fluffy.

5. Slowly add about 1/3 of your flour to the butter mixture, once it’s almost fully combined add half of the buttermilk, then continue alternating the buttermilk and flour until it’s all used up. I usually do 3 portions of flour and two of buttermilk. Then scrape your bowl down and mix for about 20 seconds until the batter is nice and combined.

6. In a greased 9”x13” pan put about 2/3 of your cake batter and smear so it covers the entire base of the pan.

7. Next, layer all of your blueberry mixture, spreading it evenly on top of the cake batter.

8. Then layer all of your streusel topping on top of the blueberry layer as evenly as possible.

9. Now dollop spoonfuls of the remaining batter randomly on top of the streusel layer so you can still see the streusel peeking through.

10. Bake in a preheated 350*F oven until golden brown and comes out clean when stabbed with a toothpick.

11. Let it cool then devour!

Delicious buttery vanilla cake layered with blueberries and cinnamon streusel! It's so delicious!