Easy, Delicious Blueberry Cake Recipe
This is one of my favourite cake recipes because I can mix it up in about 15 minutes from getting out and measuring the ingredients right through to putting the cake in the oven. I am a very impatient person and love quick and easy recipes, particularly when I'm trying to fit making a cake into the middle of a busy day.
Another reason I like it is because I can use any berries, not just blueberries. In fact I use blackberries more often at this time of the year, rather than any other kind of berry. It's the quantity of berries that is the most important thing rather than which kind you use.
Contents
- Let's Make the Blueberry or Blackberry Cake
- Recipe First Steps
- Now Add the Milk and Flour
- Make the Streusel Topping
- The Finished Cake with Streusel Topping
- Bamboo Spatula and Other Tools
- Use Blackberries Instead of Blueberries
- Thanksgiving Blackberry Pie
- Recipe for Banana Blueberry Apple Cinnamon Rice Cakes
- Add Your Own Blueberry Recipe Links
- I Love My Kenwood Chef
- More of My Recipes
- What is your favourite way of using blueberries and blackberries?
Let's Make the Blueberry or Blackberry Cake
Here are the ingredients
Main Cake
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsps baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup vegetable oil
3/4 cup brown sugar (you can use white, if you prefer)
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
1 cup blueberries or blackberries
Streusel Topping
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup softened butter
1/2 cup white sugar
3/4 tsp ground cinnamon
Recipe First Steps
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
2. Grease and flour a 9 inch pan.
3. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt.
4. Now use a separate bowl (I use my food mixer bowl) and put in the oil, sugar and egg.
5. The reason I use the mixer bowl is because I use the electric mixer to whisk them together, using the whisk attachment.
The Electric Mixer Doing Its Thing
Now Add the Milk and Flour
and after that the blueberries
6. Beat in alternately a little of the milk and then the flour, baking powder and cinnamon, until they are both combined with the mixture.
7. Stir in the blueberries or blackcurrants. I use my favourite wooden stirrer that I've had about 20 years. It's ideal because I don't break up the fruit with it as long as I stir the berries in carefully.
The Cake Mixture Just Waiting for Its Topping
Make the Streusel Topping
It hardly takes anytime at all
8. Sift the dry ingredients for the streusel topping together into a clean bowl, then add the softened butter into the dry mixture until it looks like breadcrumbs. Sprinkle evenly over the cake mixture.
9. Bake in the centre of the preheated oven for about 45 minutes. The cake should be a golden brown when ready and a sharp, thin bladed knife should come out clean after inserting into the centre. Leave in the cake pan to cool.
The Finished Cake with Streusel Topping
Bamboo Spatula and Other Tools
I love wood or bamboo rather than metal
Joyce Chen Burnished Bamboo 5-Piece Utensil Set
I've had my wooden kitchen tools for years and I use them all the time. I prefer them because they are kind on pans and dishes. Of course, they don't make that horrible squeal on pans like metals ones do either.
When I use them for stirring sauces or cooking stir fries, they never get as hot as metal tools. The wooden spatula or stirrer is great for mixing in fruit or more delicate vegetables as it is less likely to bruise or break them up.
It seems that wood kitchen tools are harder to find now so I'd choose bamboo ones which are still wood I suppose. The only one of this set that I don't have are the tongs and, now I've seen them, I'm going to get those too.
Use Blackberries Instead of Blueberries
They are just as delicious
Here in the UK, many of us never buy blackberries. That's because they grow wild in many public spaces - on commons, in parks, in hedges lining roads and tracks, on unused land, anywhere they are not disturbed. In fact, they spring up in people's back gardens, whether they are wanted or not and it takes unceasing warfare on the part of the gardener to get rid of them. I think the seeds are spread by birds who eat the berries and then deposit the seeds in their droppings.
They can ripen anytime from the end of August onwards with the main picking time usually in September. Then people go out with baskets, plastic boxes, buckets, even plastic bags to pick them. It's done quite openly, sometimes with several pickers on the same track picking from the hedgerows.
The blackberries are taken home and made into jams, jellies, pies, crumbles and cakes. That's why I love to use them in this cake but we haven't picked any this year yet. Maybe we'll do it next weekend and then make another of these cakes.
Thanksgiving Blackberry Pie
Either pick your blackberries or buy them
This blackberry pie will look good and be popular at any Thanksgiving celebration.
Life's Little Berry Cookbook
Eating and cooking with berries has increased in popularity ever since the publicity telling us how nutritious they are for us. This book has 101 recipes for using berries and they aren't all for cakes and desserts. Recipes include Strawberry Peanut Salad, Cranberry Coleslaw, Raspberry Spinach Salad and Blackberry Pecan Pie.
Recipe for Banana Blueberry Apple Cinnamon Rice Cakes
Very Blueberry
Most of us know that blueberries are full of vitamins and antioxidants, they taste good as well. If you're getting tired of blueberry muffins, try some of the forty plus recipes in this book. Yes, you get the regular ones for desserts and cakes but there are also recipes for using blueberries in main course recipes like Goat Cheese Tart with caramelised onions.
Add Your Own Blueberry Recipe Links
and vote for your favourites
Blueberry Cobbler Recipe
Fresh Blueberry Cobbler RecipeGrab some fresh pick more...2 points
Blueberry Muffin Recipes
Delicious and sweet blueberry muffins are perfect more...1 point
Blueberry Cupcake Recipe
Very Moist Blueberry Cupcake RecipeI wanted a blue more...1 point
I Love My Kenwood Chef
It's more than 20 years old
Hamilton Beach CPM700 Commercial Stand Mixer, Silver
I can't recommend a Kenwood Chef mixer highly enough. I've used mine over 20 years. I've had it so long, I can't remember when I got it - but that might be because I'm having a senior moment!
I use it all the time. I hate beating things by hand so I always use the mixer. It's never been serviced, nor has it ever gone wrong (touch wood). It's not as beautiful now as the one pictured here. What I love about it is its reliability and it's easy to use and clean. I know from experience that it is rugged and built to last. My old mixer proves it doesn't have any built-in obsolescence. If you're going to buy an expensive food mixer, I'd suggest you choose a Kenwood Chef.
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What is your favourite way of using blueberries and blackberries?
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- LindaJM LindaJM Oct 31, 2009 @ 5:11 pm
- Great recipe! I love quick and easy blueberry baking! 5* and Blessed!
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- momto4 momto4 Sep 18, 2009 @ 10:39 pm
- I love blueberry pancakes. I'll have to try your blueberry cake recipe. It sounds really good! Great lens!
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- LakeMom LakeMom Sep 14, 2009 @ 2:53 pm
- I love blueberries! I pop them into my pancakes! I was looking for some recipes for blueberries that are in my freezer and this one sounds perfect!
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- BarbRad BarbRad Sep 13, 2009 @ 12:57 am
- The way I use blueberries most frequently is to toss a handle in my cereal in the morning when they are in season. Otherwise we use dried ones. I love blueberry muffins and have a great recipe for the best ever blueberry muffins. The only problems is that they are very fattening and contain a lot of butter, so I don't make them anymore. I also make a blueberry crisp with frozen berries that is really quick and easy and not as sinful as the muffins.
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- KarateKatGraphics KarateKatGraphics Sep 11, 2009 @ 11:30 pm
- My whole family loves berries. I like them on yogurt with granola. Also in any sort of crisp or crumble, and because your cake is "quick and easy," I think I need to try it as well! 5*
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- bdkz bdkz Sep 11, 2009 @ 8:21 pm
- I love Blueberries!
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- Stazjia Stazjia Sep 11, 2009 @ 11:34 am | in reply to Sylvestermouse
- Now I'm nervous. I hope he likes it otherwise it could spoil your anniversary. I know it's disappeared fast when I've made it though. Good luck.
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- Sylvestermouse Sylvestermouse Sep 11, 2009 @ 10:52 am
- My husband will love you for this recipe! His favorite is blueberry. I make muffins and cobbler but I have never tried a blueberry cake. I think I will surprise him with this on our anniversary.
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- sandyspider sandyspider Sep 9, 2009 @ 4:09 pm
- I'm not a blueberry fan, but I could substitute a different berry for this recipe. Nice lens!
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- 24websurf 24websurf Sep 9, 2009 @ 12:47 pm
- I love blackberries and this looks really good! I knew I smelled blueberries when I walked in the door. {Looks around} Are you hiding them? :)
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