This moist and yummy blueberry coffee cake recipe is full of delicious fresh blueberries with a crumbly streusel topping. A perfect dessert for summer parties and 4th of July picnics!
Blueberry coffee cake is one of my favorite desserts to make for the summer holidays. Basically it doubles as a dessert AND a breakfast dish and how many foods can you say that about!
Heck, you can even tuck a slice into your lunchbox (vintage plaid of course) and have it for lunch. Eat it all the livelong day!
It is a pretty easy dessert to whip up and if you want it to look "fancy" you can make it in a springform pan like I did.
I don't know why, but seeing the naked sides of a cake makes it extra fancy.
Seeing the naked sides of people . . . not so much.
And it's a great one to make for a picnic where you need to bring something, but you don't want to just stop at the grocery store and bring a big old tub of potato salad!
Have you ever done that, but put the store-bought potato salad in your own bowl and then acted like you had made it?
No? Just me?
OK, enough chit-chat. You probably have a picnic to go to or a weekend to start gearing up for! On to the recipe!
Blueberry Sour Cream Coffee Cake Recipe
Blueberry Sour Cream Coffee Cake
Ingredients
Coffee Cake
- 1 cup flour
- 1 ¼ tsp baking powder
- ½ cup sugar
- 6 tbsp unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1 egg
- ½ cup sour cream
- ¼ cup milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups fresh blueberries
Struesel
- ½ cup flour
- ¼ cup brown sugar firmly packed
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ cup oats (old-fashioned rolled, not instant)
- ⅛ tsp salt
- 4 tbsp unsalted butter at room temperature
Glaze (optional)
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1-2 tsp milk
- ¼ tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
Streusel Topping
- In a small bowl, combine flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, oats and salt. Cut in butter with a fork until mixture is in a crumbly state. Set aside.
Glaze
- Whisk powdered sugar, vanilla and milk in a small bowl until smooth. Set aside.
Coffee Cake
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a 9 inch springform pan with cooking spray on sides and parchment paper on the bottom.
- Add the flour and baking powder to a medium size mixing bowl, mix together well and set aside.
- Cream sugar and butter together in large mixing bowl bowl using an electric mixer.
- Add the egg and mix until well combined.
- Mix in the sour cream, milk and vanilla extract.
- Add your flour/baking powder mixture to your wet ingredients, mix well and then gently stir in blueberries.
- Pour your batter into your springform pan and top with your streusel mixture.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
- Cool for 15-20 minutes, remove from springform pan and drizzle glaze over top of coffee cake.
Notes
Nutrition
Some Coffee Cake Facts For You:
- Eat them. Often.
- No, you don't have to drink coffee when you eat coffee cake. Any wet liquid works just fine.
- No, there is no coffee actually IN the cake.
- Blueberries burn if you can't wait for the cake to cool before popping a fork full into your mouth. It's a occupational hazard of baking at times.
Any plans for the pre-holiday weekend?
There are a lot of estate sales calling my name and a front door to paint. Guess which one is getting put off if I run out of time.
Other summer recipe ideas:
Blueberry Crostata Recipe
Summer Mixed Berry Salad
Handmade Apple Hand Pies
Linda @ Itsy Bits And Pieces
Well, that sure looks yummy! Wish I could join you for a piece! Thanks for sharing!
taryterre
sure looks yummy.
Kari Wagner Hoban
This looks so good but I think I am now allergic-ish to blueberries. Long story. I will write about it probably because I am me.
Pinning in case I get un-allergic.
Jenny
I bet this would also be great with any kind of berries, pineapple, peaches...
Julie Briones
Yummy.... and you made me giggle... a lot! 🙂 (And what is with everyone one from the group posting these yummy desserts? I'm going to gain 5 pounds before Haven, instead of losing 5!) Pinned!
Rosemary Palmer
Oh my - I wish I had a slice of this right now. It looks so good. Coffee cakes are such a staple item.