Day 19 - $4.00 Blueberry Coffee Cake!!!

(This is what the bottom of the cake looks like. As soon as it was done in the oven, i flipped it out of the pan)

Blueberry Coffee Cake was on my brain! I had the most amazing coffee cake at Heinens once and  I was in the mood for one. Unfortunately this one wasnt AS good.. But it was good enough! The recipe calls for buttermilk and like most people I didnt have buttermilk, so i used 1 cup of milk and 1 Tablespoon of Lemon Juice.  I also freeze blueberries when they are in season.. So I used frozen blueberries in this recipe and it worked out fine! Another side note... If you dont have Pastry flour, by all means use regular everyday flour.

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Blueberry Coffee Cake

adapted from Cooking Light
1-1/2 cups pastry flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup granulated sugar
6 Tablespoons butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 large egg
1 large egg white
1-1/3 cups buttermilk ( 1 cup of milk, 1 tbsp Lemon juice. double it so you have the 1 1/3 cups)
Cooking Spray
2 cups fresh blueberries
2 Tablespoons turbinado sugar (coarse sugar)


In a medium bowl combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.

In a large bowl add butter and granulated sugar, beat with a mixer for about two minutes. Add vanilla, egg and egg white; mix well. Add flour mixture and buttermilk alternately to sugar mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture; mix after each addition.

Spoon half the batter into a 9-inch round baking pan coated with cooking spray. Sprinkle evenly with 1 cup blueberries. Spoon remaining batter over the blueberries; sprinkle evenly with remaining 1 cup blueberries. (Do not add extra blueberries.) Sprinkle the top evenly with 2 Tablespoons turbinado sugar. Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes on a wire rack; remove from pan by running a knife around the edges and flipping the cake onto a plate. The bottom of the cake now becomes the top, do not flip it back over.