Blueberry-Crunch Coffee Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
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12
ingredients
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Praline Crunch
- 118.29 ml light brown sugar, packed
- 78.78 ml unsifted all-purpose flour
- 2.46 ml ground cinnamon
- 78.78 ml unsalted butter, softened
- 78.78 ml pecans, finely chopped
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Cake
- 118.29 ml unsalted butter, softened
- 59.14 ml granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 473.18 ml unsifted all-purpose flour
- 9.85 ml baking powder
- 2.46 ml salt
- 177.44 ml milk
- 9.85 ml vanilla extract
- 354.88 ml frozen blueberries
- confectioners' sugar, for dusting
directions
- Mix together milk and vanilla extract; set aside.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees; grease 9-inch springform pan.
- Coat inside evenly with flour; tap out excess flour.
- Praline Crunch: In small bowl, stir together brown sugar, flour and cinnamon.
- Add butter; using a rubber spatula or your fingers, mash in butter until well blended.
- With fork, stir in chopped pecans.
- Cake: In large bowl, with electric mixer on high speed, beat together butter and sugar until creamy, about 2 minutes.
- Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, until blended.
- Continue to beat 2-3 minutes, until light and fluffy.
- In small bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt.
- With mixer on low speed, alternately beat flour mixture (in fourths) and milk mixture (in thirds) into butter mixture until well blended.
- Spread two thirds of the batter in prepared pan; crumble 1/3 cup Praline Crunch evenly over batter.
- Scatter frozen blueberries evenly over top.
- Carefully spread remaining batter over berries (batter will just barely cover).
- Crumble remaining Praline Crunch evenly over top.
- Bake 65-70 minutes, until a wooden pick inserted into center comes out clean.
- Let cake cool completely in wire pan on wire rack.
- Remove sides and bottom of pan; place cake on platter, top side up.
- Dust top with confectioners' sugar.
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Reviews
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I have been looking for this exact recipe for a very long time...I found it originally in the March, 2001 issue of McCall's magazine which is no longer in circulation. Thank you Lainey 6605 for posting this here! This is the BEST coffee cake recipe every using blueberries...when I make it, I double the praline crunch. Thank you again!
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Carnegie, Pennsylvania
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