I cannot even begin to tell you the awesomeness of this cake. It was seriously the best cake I’ve had in a long, long time.
I pulled this recipe out of a magazine just incase I ever had an abundance of blueberries that needed to get used up. It wasn’t really a recipe that made me super excited but I figured it would be a good enough. After one taste of the batter I knew it was love.
This cake is so soft, sweet but not too sweet, and the turbinado sugar on top gives it the perfect crunch. Oh ya’ll, I wish I hadn’t eaten it all the day I made it because I could really go for some more.
I’m also fascinated by how the blueberries start out on top but end up all along the bottom.
📖 Recipe
Blueberry Buttermilk Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ stick butter softened
- ⅔ cup sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 1 large egg
- ½ cup well-shaken buttermilk
- 1 cup fresh blueberries
- 1 tablespoon turbinado sugar
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 400 with rack in middle. Butter and flour a 9-inch round cake pan.
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Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
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Beat butter and ⅔ cup sugar with an with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes, then beat in vanilla. Add egg and beat well.
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At low speed, mix in flour mixture in 3 batches, alternating with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour, and mixing until just combined.
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Spoon batter into cake pan, smoothing top. Scatter blueberries evenly over top and sprinkle with turbinado sugar.
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Bake until cake is golden and a wooden pick inserted into center comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. Cool in pan 10 minutes, then turn out onto a rack and cool to warm, 10 to 15 minutes more. Invert onto plate.
Joanne says
That looks great. Tis the time for the blueberry! I’d eat it all as well.
Pam says
OH WOW — I am SO going to be making this – AND SOON! I need more blueberry recipes with my 35 pounds of blueberries recently added to my freezer! Yay!
grace says
ah yes, i’ve seen this beauty around blog land. i think my favorite thing about it is how the fruit sinks while the cake bakes up around it. looks perfect to me!
sara says
Everyone raves about this cake, I am going to have to try it soon. Yours looks fab.
pamela says
I have heard nothing but rave reviews about this buttermilk cake. And, as luck would have it, I have blueberries and buttermilk in the fridge and I want to use them up ASAP. Thanks for reminding me about this cake! Looks amazing!