Our Family's Favorite Blueberry Coffee Cake Recipe

This Blueberry Coffee Cake has been in the family for thirty years!

I'm going to let you in on one of our family's favorite recipes...blueberry coffee cake!

You know those recipes that you instantly adopt as "worth repeating?" Well, this is one of those recipes. It's the cake that keeps on giving. Family breakfasts, brunches, neighborhood pot lucks, cake sales....you name it, you'll be making this cake!

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The cake in the picture was baked by Candy Wong from Toronto. You can find Candy at flickr.com Thanks, Candy!

Now have some fun......happy baking!

Blueberry Coffee Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 2 cups white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 5/8 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries

Ingredients for the Topping:

• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans
• 1 tablespoon confectioners' sugar for dusting

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350° F (175° C)

2. Grease and flour a 9 inch Bundt pan.

3. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

4. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the sour cream and vanilla .

5. Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt; stir into the batter just until blended.

6. Fold in blueberries.

7. Spoon half of the batter into the prepared pan.

8. In a small bowl, stir together the brown sugar, cinnamon and pecans. Sprinkle half of this mixture over the batter in the pan.

9. Spoon the remaining batter over the top, and then sprinkle the remaining pecan mixture over the batter.

10. Bake for 55 to 60 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a knife inserted into the crown of the cake comes out clean.

11. Cool in the pan over a wire rack. Invert onto a serving plate, and tap firmly to remove from the pan. Dust with confectioners' sugar just before serving.

Recipe Source: My grandmother's recipe box...probably clipped from a 1960's women's magazine, but I'm guessing here:)

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