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Quick and Easy Blueberry Cake

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Easy, Delicious Blueberry Cake Recipe

This Blueberry Cake is one of my favourite dessert or cake recipes

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 make a cake in 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 in the late summer and autumn, 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.


Picture above: Blueberry Bush
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Contents

  1. Let's Make the Blueberry or Blackberry Cake
  2. Recipe First Steps
  3. Now Add the Milk and Flour
  4. Make the Streusel Topping
  5. The Finished Cake with Streusel Topping
  6. Use Blackberries Instead of Blueberries
  7. Thanksgiving Blackberry Pie
  8. Recipe for Banana Blueberry Apple Cinnamon Rice Cakes
  9. Add Your Own Blueberry Recipe Links
  10. Baking Bargains on eBay
  11. More of My Recipes
  12. 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

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.

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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

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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.

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