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Tried and Tested: Blueberry Crumb Cake

August 3, 2014 by Susan Leave a Comment

Today’s tried and tested recipe comes from Smitten Kitchen, which is fast becoming one of my regular blog reads.

I’m normally way behind the curve, normally trying recipes 6+ months down the line by the time I have ‘re-found’ them, it takes me ages to remember where recipes came from, which is why I should use Pinterest more regularly! However, this recipe for Blueberry Crumb Cake was too good to pass as a dessert for today’s Sunday lunch.

Blueberries are in season just now, and one of my favourite berries. The pairing of them with lemon in the cake, then topped with a sugary, cinnamony struesel type topping, was just too good to resist!

The recipe can be found via the link above and I’ve included some pictures of my endeavour. The only alteration I made was to not include the walnuts (remember Mr B’s recent misadventure with a small piece of peanut?) – otherwise I followed the recipe to the letter even using cups/spoons for the quantities of ingredietns. Now I’m still happy with my finished result as it looks like a yummy homebaked cake, but it doesn’t quite look like the pics on Smitten Kitchen -the blueberries sank and the cake almost bubbled up around the edges of the struesel topping. Thankfully I don’t mind sharing with you when my baking doesn’t quite end up like the master version  – what do you think went ‘wrong’?

The ingredients ready to go
The spoons
and the cups

The finished struesel topping
Batter in the tin
then covered with the struesel

See how the cake rose above the struesel?
To be served with extra blueberries, and a choice of custard or creme fraiche

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