Blueberry Coffee Cake

January 10, 2018

This week Wine & Dine Wednesday Mister Sive is at the helm with his always popular blueberry coffee cake recipe. He made this the past week and I have been savoring every little morsel. We enjoy this for a breakfast treat with coffee, but also in the eve as dessert.

Cake is far too wonderful an invention to limit it to dinner! Breakfast, too, is followed by dessert. The following is a fairly simple recipe, good with a range of berries. This version highlights some fab blueberries that seemed just the bright sweet thing for a winter treat this week. The yoghurt is a great mix with the tang of the berries, the sweet dough, and the crunchy hearty cinnamony crumble. 

For the cake: 1 ½ cup flour, 1 cup white sugar, 3 teaspoons baking powder, 1 cup of whole milk yoghurt, 2 eggs, 1 cup blueberries

For the crumble topping: ¾ cup flour,  ½ cup butter, ½ cup of oatmeal, ½ cup of chopped walnuts, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 ½ teaspoon cinnamon

Prepare the topping by adding all the ingredients to bowl, and mushing/massaging together with your finger tip until there’s a mix of larger and smaller crumbles. Set aside.

Preheat the oven to 350. Combine the flour, sugar, and baking powder with a fork. Beat the yoghurt and eggs and until mixed. Add the flour mix to the wet mix and beat until just smooth. Don’t overbeat. Spoon the dough into a buttered 9×9 pan.

Spread the blueberries evenly on top of the dough, and lightly push in, keeping the blueberries toward the top of the batter. (Don’t mix the blueberries in the batter, as that will break the skins.) Lightly spread the crumble over the top. Bake for 35 or so minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean.

Serve with piping hot coffee and remind yourself that since it’s got oatmeal and walnuts, it’s really healthy.