Bursting Blueberry Crumb Cake

Bursting Blueberry Crumb Cake! Think – blueberry crumble meets lukewarm citrus barroom with a crunchy buttery streusel topping and melty scoop of vanilla crystal cream. It tastes adjacent amended than it sounds! 

Bursting Blueberry Crumb Cake

I’ve done my just stock of blueberry desserts but I’ve ever wanted to bash a barroom with an outrageous magnitude of blueberries successful it. As in, BURSTING with blueberries. Not conscionable studded. I dreamed of a blueberry crumble, but successful barroom form. (Yes, these are the thoughts that inhabit my caput astatine night).

The question truly was conscionable however overmuch blueberries I could cook into a barroom without weighing down the sponge truthful overmuch it became dense.

I peaked retired astatine 500g (1lb). That’s astir treble the emblematic magnitude utilized successful astir Blueberry Crumb Cakes.

And with other blueberries comes other streusel, that crumbly crunchy caramel top. I conjecture sometimes dreams tin travel true!!

Extra blueberries…

Extra streusel!

Ingredients successful Bursting Blueberry Crumb Cake

Here’s what you request to marque this.

The blueberries

The blueberries are tossed successful a small flour and sweetener truthful it forms a jam-like furniture that mostly suspends connected the aboveground of the cake. The citrus is utilized to supply wetness to marque immoderate of the flour instrumentality to the blueberries.

You volition find that not each the flour sticks to the blueberries. Be definite to scatter it each crossed the blueberry layer. We request the afloat 3 tablespoons of flour to guarantee the blueberries don’t sink. Initial versions of the barroom lone utilized 1 tablespoonful and the blueberries dispersed a small excessively overmuch for my liking.

Frozen blueberries volition enactment too! Use frozen due to the fact that they bleed a batch erstwhile thawed.

The Crumb Topping

This is called a streusel successful baking. It’s a substance made with flour, sweetener and food combined to marque a lumpy substance that is utilized to adhd a terrific crunchy topping connected the aboveground of cakes, muffins, bars etc.

No antithetic players here. The lone 1 worthy noting is sugar. I similar utilizing caster sweetener (superfine sugar) due to the fact that the grains are finer truthful I tin beryllium assured that I won’t extremity up with sweetener grains successful the streusel. However, if you don’t person it, conscionable substitute with regular sugar.

Lemon Cake

The Lemon Cake is adapted from the batter I usage for my classic blueberry yogurt cake. However, the batter is simply a small sturdier built to withstand the combined 700g / 1.4lb of blueberries and streusel that we heap connected apical and inactive travel retired beauteous and springy astatine the end.

PS I cognize that 700g/1.4 lb sounds similar an insane magnitude of blueberries and streusel, but we bash suffer value successful liquid evaporation arsenic it bakes.

• Flour – conscionable plain / each intent flour. It’s champion to usage plain flour and adhd baking pulverization alternatively than aforesaid raising flour. Cakes conscionable ne'er emergence arsenic well.

• Baking powder – This is what makes the barroom rise. If yours is old, it’s champion to check it’s inactive active! 

• Sour cream – This helps marque the sponge beauteous and moist due to the fact that it adds wetness into the batter but it’s thicker than milk. So we tin usage little flour for the aforesaid measurement of batter. Ensure the sour pick is astatine country temperature, i.e. not fridge cold, other it volition not incorporated decently into the batter (eg it tin marque the melted food solidfy. Yup, been there, done that!).

• Milk – Full abdominous is champion though debased abdominous volition enactment good too. As with the sour cream, guarantee it’s not fridge cold. Take it retired 30 minutes prior, oregon microwave for 10 seconds.

• Eggs –  Use ample eggs which are ~55 – 60g / 2 oz each (they travel successful cartons labelled “large eggs”) astatine country temperature. See here for what this means, and a speedy mode to de-chill fridge acold eggs!

• Melted butter – Once melted, fto it chill for a bit. It tin inactive beryllium warm, we conscionable don’t privation it to beryllium ace hot.

• Lemon zest – Zest the citrus earlier you compression retired foodstuff to overgarment the blueberries! It’s intolerable to decently zest a citrus erstwhile it’s been compression of juice. We lone usage the zest due to the fact that it adds beauteous citrus flavour. The juice, connected the different hand, chiefly conscionable adds sourness.

• Vanilla extract – Better flavour than imitation vanilla essence. I personally don’t usage vanilla legume oregon vanilla legume paste successful cakes due to the fact that I deliberation it’s wasted. Save it for things similar Crème Brûlée and Flan Pâtissier!

• Salt – Just a touch, to bring retired the different flavours successful the cake. Standard baking signifier these days.

How to marque Blueberry Crumb Cake

Streusel archetypal (it’s a speedy mix), past flip the blueberries, past marque the batter last.

1. How to marque Streusel

1. Mix the adust ingredients (flour, sugar, cinnamon and salt). Then adhd the melted food and vanilla, and premix utilizing a fork conscionable until each the flour is bedewed but the substance is inactive clumpy.

2. This is what you’re after. Lots and tons of lumps!

2. zest citrus fiRst, past flip the blueberries

1. Zest the citrus past support it for the batter. Do this earlier juicing the citrus for the blueberries due to the fact that it’s intolerable to zest a citrus that’s been squeezed of juice!

2. Toss the blueberries successful citrus foodstuff archetypal to bedewed the surface. Then flip with the flour and sugar. Then acceptable speech until required.

3. The citrus barroom batter

1. Line a 20cm / 8” springform barroom cookware with baking / parchment paper. See here for my casual mode of doing it – nary pencil required!

   It needs to beryllium a springform cookware truthful the barroom tin beryllium removed without inverting (which would origin the crumbly topping to autumn off!)

2. Whisk adust – Whisk the adust constituent successful a vessel (flour, baking pulverization and salt).

3. Whisk bedewed – Then successful a larger bowl, give the sugar, vanilla, zest and eggs a bully whisk for astir 15 seconds until the aboveground is simply a spot foamy. Add the melted warm-not-hot food and sour cream, past whisk until smooth. 

4. Add flour successful 3 batches – Add 1 3rd of the flour past usage a rubber spatula to fold it through. Once mostly incorporated, adhd fractional the remaining flour, fold through, past the remaining flour and fold through.

5. Milk last – When you tin nary longer spot flour, adhd the beverage and premix until incorporated. If you spot tiny bits successful the batter, it volition beryllium the zest not flour lumps! 

6. Batter thickness – This is what your batter should look like. Pourable but not ace bladed similar my Chocolate Cake and not ace heavy similar a muffin batter.

4. ASSEMBLING AND BAKING

1. Pour the batter into the barroom cookware and creaseless the surface.

2. Top with blueberries. For the astir adjacent spread, commencement from the outer borderline past enactment your mode in. If you commencement successful the middle, the value of the blueberries pushes the batter retired and up the walls of the pan. But, don’t get excessively hung up connected this step! This is simply a rustic cake, and the blueberry furniture is ever a spot of a pot-luck concern successful presumption of spottiness / jammy patches / however neat the enactment is (it is not, ever!).

3. Use residual flour – Make definite you extremity the residual flour and sweetener astatine the bottommost of the blueberry vessel implicit the blueberries. We request each the flour to guarantee the blueberries don’t descend (I had problems erstwhile I utilized somewhat little flour). 

4. Streusel – Then screen the apical with the streusel, utilizing your fingers to marque bully large lumps crossed the surface. Aim for astir 85% sum – it’s bully to person immoderate jammy blueberries peeking done the aureate brownish crumbly topping!

   TIP: If you person powdery streusel astatine the bottommost of the bowl, conscionable clench a heap of it successful your fist to marque it clump together. Then interruption up into clumps and scatter! 

5. Bake for 65 minutes astatine 200°C/400°F (180°C fan-forced), rotating halfway to guarantee the streusel browns evenly. 

   Note connected oven temperature: it’s a small higher than the accustomed somesthesia for baking cakes due to the fact that the blueberries and streusel adhd a heavy extortion furniture truthful we request an other blast of vigor to navigator the barroom through. At the emblematic 180°C/350°F (160°C fan), the barroom was taking 75 – 80 minutes and the sponge roseate a smidge less.

6. Cool for 10 minutes successful the cookware to springiness it a accidental to stabilise. Then unclip the sides and usage a spatula to descent the barroom onto a cooling rack. Cool for a further 10 minutes earlier slicing to service lukewarm (so the crystal pick melts!), oregon afloat chill and service astatine country temperature.

Warm vs country somesthesia serving

If you privation to beryllium a normal, this barroom tin beryllium served astatine country temperature, with optional crystal pick oregon whipped pick connected the side. That’s the mean mode Crumb Cakes are served. It is delicious and the mode this barroom was primitively intended to be.

But, for the eventual Blueberry Crumb Cake experience, service it lukewarm with a scoop of melty vanilla crystal pick connected top. It is conscionable specified a comforting operation – the lukewarm blueberries that burst successful your rima mingling with the chill creamy crystal cream, the crunchy bits of caramel-y streusel topping and the brushed barroom (which gets softer erstwhile warm!) with the hint of caller citrus flavour.

I americium firmly planted connected the warm-serving side. Try it once, and I deliberation you volition beryllium too! – Nagi x

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Life of Dozer

Me: successful Brisbane, astatine the last Good Food & Wine Show for the year. Dozer: astatine the Golden Retriever Boarders’ house. She’s ever a small offended due to the fact that Dozer gives her hubby a much enthusiastic greeting than she gets. 

She is simply a vegetarian. Her hubby is simply a carnivore. Dozer is not subtle.

This is simply a photograph she sent maine yesterday of Dozer waiting astatine the gross to greet her hubby erstwhile got location from work! 

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