Saturday, April 14, 2012

Blueberry - Sour Cream Coffee Cake

Coffee Crumb Cakes are Awesome. Enough said! The crumbs aren't even that difficult to make. :)
For an 8" cake, here's what you'll need.




For the Cake

Bowl 1
  • 1 and 3/4 cup all purpose flour
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 tbsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tbsp baking soda
  • 1/4 tbsp salt
Bowl 2
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1 tbsp vanilla extract

And then a cup of Blue Berries (or) Raspberries

For the Topping
  • 1/2 cup all purpose flour
  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • lemon zest
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter (chunk 'em up)

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 F
  2. Grease and flour a spring-foam pan. (Spring Foam Pan is one where you can pop out the base of the cake pan). A regular pan works too, but then keep a constant watch on the cake as it bakes and take it off the oven as soon as the cake is 95%up done. You end burning the base of the cake, otherwise.
  3. Mix bowl 1 ingredients and set aside
  4. Mix and beat bowl 2 ingredients. Pour bowl 1 ingredients into bowl 2 and mix well until smooth.
  5. Pour into the prepared pan
  6. Now, arrange the blue berries on the batter in a pattern and set aside.  
To make the crumbs, chunk up the butter into small cubes. Add in the flour and sugar in proportions mentioned atop and use a fork to mix them roughly. When you use the fork to do this, the process is very uncomfortable, but it gives the crumbs the semi-mixed texture.
Sift this mixture on top of the cake and then place the pan in the oven



Bake for 35-40 mins or until the crumbs begin to turn brown
 
Voila! It's done and serve warm or at room temperature
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6 comments:

  1. SwethaApril 16, 2012 at 2:36 AM

    I was expecting some coffee essence in it. :).
    But Nivi, i usually use 2 eggs, for 1 3/4 cups, 8 inch cake. 3 eggs is fine is it?

    I dont get frsh blueberries here :(, i am going to try something simliar with stawberry and coffee essence and crumbs next week!! :). Lets see how it comes out

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  2. SwethaApril 16, 2012 at 2:37 AM

    The cake looks so good,blueberries and crumbs makes it look so yummy and tempts you so much. :)

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  3. NApril 16, 2012 at 4:54 AM

    Thanks Swetha! Typically just the coffee flavor can render the cake tasting very intense. Shd try it while making flan or something!
    Lemme know how yours turns out, will try it out here.

    Strawberries or Raspberries should work well too

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  4. NApril 16, 2012 at 5:04 AM

    3 eggs worked fine as I did not use butter. The sour cream n 3 eggs, gives the cake a spungy texture. You can try it with 2, but the batter may be hard to beat.

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  5. SwethaApril 16, 2012 at 6:11 AM

    ah, yea, dint notice the no-butter/oil part. Here you don't get sour cream either , so i substitute with buttermilk to get that moistness in muffins and cakes. Let me try the strawberry + coffee flavor to see how it works. :)

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  6. NApril 16, 2012 at 6:29 AM

    I sometimes substitute eggs with yoghurt, n that works well.
    A friend of mine, who is a vegan tried the banana nut muffins without eggs and added condensed milk instead. She said it tasted great! You could try that too.

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