Blueberry Coffee Cake

Servings 8

Ingredients

  • ½ cup (4 ounces or 1 stick) softened unsalted butter
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • ½ cup light brown sugar
  • 3 eggs, at room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon lemon zest
  • 2 cups all-purpose unbleached flour
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • ½ teaspoon cardamom
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup sour cream (or Greek yogurt)
  • 1 cup chopped pecans or other nuts (optional)
  • 1 pint fresh blueberries, washed, carefully dried, tossed in a tablespoon of flour (tossing the fruit with flour helps it to not sink to the bottom of the pan)

Instructions

1. Heat oven to 325 degrees. Grease a 9×13 inch baking pan.

2. In a medium bowl, fork sift the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and cardamom together. Set aside.

3. In a separate large mixing bowl, using a stand or hand mixer, cream together butter, sugars, vanilla and almond extracts until fluffy and lighter in color.

4. Beat in (room temperature) eggs, one a time, mixing well after each addition. Blend in the lemon zest.

5. Add ½ of the flour mixture to the batter, beating ingredients until smooth.

6. Mix in the sour cream.

7. Add the remaining flour mixture and mix until smooth.

8. If adding pecans or other nuts to this blueberry coffee cake recipe, fold them gently into the batter.

9. Gently fold blueberries that have been lightly coated with flour into the batter.

10. Pour batter into a greased 9×13 inch baking pan.

11. Bake at 325 degrees until cake is firm and golden brown, approximately 45-50 minutes.

Recipe from Eat Splendid - https://eatsplendid.com/recipe/blueberry-coffee-cake-recipe/