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Quick and Easy Blueberry Cake

Updated on October 28, 2014
Blueberries on the bush
Blueberries on the bush | Source

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.

A cup of raw blueberries
A cup of raw blueberries | Source

Let's Make the Blueberry or Blackberry Cake

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

All four photos taken as I made the cake
All four photos taken as I made the cake | Source

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

The Electric Mixer Doing Its Thing
The Electric Mixer Doing Its Thing | Source

Now Add the Milk and Flour - and after that the blueberries

Add the milk and flour
Add the milk and flour | Source

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.

Mixing in the blueberries
Mixing in the blueberries | Source

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

The Cake Mixture Just Waiting for Its Topping
The Cake Mixture Just Waiting for Its Topping | Source
Streusel mixture
Streusel mixture | Source

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. Rub it in with your fingertips until it looks like fine 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

The Finished Cake with Streusel Topping
The Finished Cake with Streusel Topping | Source

Photographs used in the Recipe

All the photographs used in the recipe sequence above were taken by me as I made a Blueberry Cake and they are copyright.

Blackberries, ripe and unripe, on the bush
Blackberries, ripe and unripe, on the bush | Source

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

If you want a change from blueberry or apple pie, this blackberry pie will look good and be popular at any Thanksgiving celebration.

Thanksgiving Blackberry Pie - Either pick your blackberries or buy them

If you want a change from blueberry or apple pie, this blackberry pie will look good and be popular at any Thanksgiving celebration.

The Southern Pie Book (Southern Living (Paperback Oxmoor))
The Southern Pie Book (Southern Living (Paperback Oxmoor))
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