Blueberry Buckle Recipe | My Baking Dependancy

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Blueberry buckle is a frivolously spiced, dense blueberry espresso cake topped with a candy and crunchy streusel. Serve this cake for breakfast, dessert, or a day snack. 

I don’t learn about you, however I like all excuse to eat cake for breakfast.

I imply, I nonetheless know that it’s cake. However calling it espresso cake provides you an excuse to splurge each now and again, proper?

Whether or not it’s my simple espresso cake made with baking combine, apple espresso cake, or chai espresso cake, I like all of them.

So after all I like this blueberry buckle as properly! It’s an outdated household recipe that also holds up in any case these years. And I believe you’ll find it irresistible as a lot as we do.

WHAT IS A BUCKLE?

Again when Eric and I had been nonetheless courting, I had an opportunity to raid his grandmother’s recipe assortment. There’s simply one thing so particular and nostalgic about handwritten recipe playing cards – I kind of really feel prefer it’s a misplaced artwork that completely must make a resurgence.

I don’t know why her recipe for blueberry buckle caught my eye, however I do know that the truth that it had the phrase “buckle” within the identify type of intrigued me.

Seems, a buckle is an old style dessert and simply refers to a single-layer cake with berries or fruit within the batter. When it bakes up, the highest has a “buckled” (indented) look.

Buckles additionally typically have a streusel topping, so it’s not all the time simple to identify the indents within the high, however they’re there!

Discover some similarities between that and cinnamon espresso cake and even Bisquick espresso cake? That’s as a result of buckles can positively be thought-about a kind of espresso cake! And who doesn’t like an excuse to eat cake for breakfast?

After all, over time I’ve added a few minor tweaks to Eric’s grandmother’s blueberry buckle recipe as a result of I’ve a difficulty with leaving properly sufficient alone. However the essence of this recipe continues to be completely hers, and may completely be in your must-try listing.

HOW TO MAKE MY BLUEBERRY BUCKLE

Like many old style recipes, like old style apple dumplings or date cake, it is a fairly simple recipe with out numerous frills.

However there’s a motive the classics are so common – as a result of they’re scrumptious!

Components you’ll want

Yow will discover just about all of what you’ll want for this blueberry buckle recipe in most baking pantries:

All-purpose flour: Ensure you know the way to measure flour accurately in order that this cake seems good each time.

Baking powder: This cake is leavened with baking powder. Ensure you use baking powder, not baking soda!

Salt: A bit salt helps to stability out the sweetness of the cake.

Cinnamon: A bit cinnamon helps to taste the cake and pairs surprisingly properly with the blueberries!

Unsalted butter: The unique recipe requires shortening, however I want to make use of butter as a substitute. You possibly can positively use shortening if it’s what you may have and what you want, although!

Egg: An egg helps to bind the cake and supplies a little bit of elevate.

Vanilla: You should utilize your favourite model of vanilla or use home made vanilla extract.

Milk: I sometimes use entire milk, however reduced-fat milk or perhaps a milk different would work positive.

Recent blueberries: The batter for this cake could be very dense, so odds are good that a number of the blueberries will break up as you combine them in. Due to that, I don’t essentially advocate utilizing frozen blueberries. Should you do, do NOT thaw them and know that they nonetheless would possibly discolor the batter a bit.

The streusel topping makes use of a number of of those identical substances, plus brown sugar. 

Making this recipe

Seize your favourite 9-inch cake pan and spray it with nonstick cooking spray.

In a bowl, combine collectively the flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.

In a separate bowl, use an electrical mixer to cream collectively the butter (or shortening) and sugar till the combination is mild and fluffy. This takes about 3 minutes. 

Add the egg and the vanilla, then cut back the pace of the mixer. Add half of the dry substances, all the milk, then the remainder of the dry substances, ensuring to combine after every addition.

Fold the blueberries into the batter. The batter shall be fairly thick, so attempt to fold the berries in as gently as you may.

Unfold the batter into the ready pan, then combine collectively the streusel topping and unfold it evenly excessive of the batter.

Bake for about 40-45 minutes. I like to recommend letting the cake cool for no less than 10-Quarter-hour within the pan earlier than turning it out onto a wire rack. 

STORAGE

I don’t assume anybody might argue that there’s nothing higher than a chunk of cake contemporary from the oven, and this blueberry buckle isn’t any exception. But it surely’s scrumptious the subsequent day as properly!

Retailer any leftover cake properly wrapped at room temperature for as much as 3 days.

You may also reduce the buckle into slices, wrap every one in plastic wrap, place them in a zip-top freezer bag, and freeze for as much as a month.

To thaw and reheat the blueberry buckle, unwrap a frozen slice and microwave it for 30-60 seconds.