Blueberry Crumb Coffeecake

By draingal

This is delicious all by itself. However, if you want to be naughty top the warmed coffeecake with vanilla ice cream or sweetened whipped cream.

Ingredients

• Crumb Topping:
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
• 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) cold unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
• 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp. ground cardamom
• Coffeecake:
• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/4 tsp. baking soda
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. ground cardamom
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1/3 cup milk
• 1 cup blueberries

Details

Servings 12

Preparation

Step 1

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9x9x2 inch square baking pan with aluminum foil, with foil overhanging pan on two sides. Coat the aluminum foil with non-stick vegetable oil cooking spray.
Make crumb topping - combine flour, brown sugar in small bowl. Cut cold butter into 1-inch pieces and add to bowl. With pastry blender mix butter into flour and sugar until mixture is the texture of coarse meal. Stir in walnuts, cinnamon and cardamom until combined.
Make coffeecake - stir together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cardamom in a medium sized bowl. Using an electric mixer, beat together the room-temperature butter and granulated sugar in a large bowl at medium speed until the mixture is smooth and creamy, for about 2 minutes. Add the egg and vanilla, beating until smooth. On low speed, alternately beat in the dry ingredients and milk, beginning and ending with the addition of the dry ingredients. Mix just until all ingredients are blended.
Spread batter evenly in the prepared pan. Sprinkle blueberries over batter in an even layer. Sprinkle Crumb Topping evenly over the blueberries.
Bake at 350 degrees for 50 to 55 minutes. Transfer the pan to a wire rack to cool coffeecake slightly. Carefully grasp foil edges to lift from pan with coffeecake. Cut cake into squares; remove from foil. Serve warm.