Huckleberry ( or Blueberry) Coffee Cake

GaylaJ's Note:

Cooking Light published this in their book, Five Star Recipes--The Best of 10 Years, and their staff voted this as one of their top five recipes from the first 10 years. It is very, very good, either for breakfast, brunch, or as dessert, warm out of the oven with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 15 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Servings: 10

• ¼ cup stick margarine , softened (I used real butter)
• 0.5 (8 ounce) package fat free cream cheese (I used neufchatel)
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups huckleberries (fresh or frozen, unthawed(I used blueberries) or 2 cups blueberries (fresh or frozen, unthawed(I used blueberries)
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Directions:

1. Beat margarine and cream cheese at medium speed of an electric mixer until creamy; gradually 1 cup sugar, beating well. Add egg, and beat well.
2. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt; stir into margarine mixture. Stir in vanilla, then fold in berries.
3. Pour batter into a 9-inch round cake pan coated with cooking spray (I also lined bottom with parchment).
4. Combine 2 tablespoons sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over batter.
5. Bake at 350F for 1 hour; cool on a wire rack.

Reviews

[Chef #1553104]

I have been making this recipe for a couple years now, I have made it with blueberries, bananas and apples. It was moist and delicious with each one. I just posted the pic of the apple version, minus the bite I took :)

The banana and apple version ,I added a dash of cinnamon to the dough.

With all of them , I sprinkled the cin./sugar mixture over the entire top. It's one of the yummiest things I've ever eaten! One of my absolute easiest, fastet,favorite recipes.And compared to most desserts, it's pretty low fat too, but NO way does it taste like it.

Thanks GaylaJ!

[Meucci]

Very good. It does seem like alot of cinnamon/sugar on top, but no one at my house complained! 1 Tablespoon of each would work just fine though.

[sugaree]

Simple & delicious. I did cut down on the cinnamon sugar topping other than that followed the recipe exactly.