Caution: Addictive Blueberry Dessert

After our annual blueberry picking extravaganza this year, I was left with 5lbs of perfect, gigantic monster blueberries. I didn't want to make a pie, because that would have used all my berries, leaving none to eat out of hand (which my kids love). So, I settled on making a blueberry buckle. If you've never tasted a buckle, it is like a streuseled coffee cake with loads of fruit. It blew my mind! So much so, that I ended up single-handedly finishing the whole thing within 3 days. +5lbs later, I decided to make another one for a parenting group that I was hosting, but with the addition of some lemon zest and a lemon drizzle at the end. Perfection! This is super-easy, and other than blueberries, all of the ingredients are in your pantry/fridge already. I'm pretty sure this can be done with other fruits, but the blueberry is divine. Just trust me on this one.




By the way, I'm sorry there are no better pictures of the whole buckle, but I ate it too fast to take any.....








Blueberry-Lemon Buckle

Ingredients For Cake:
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup room temperature butter
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup milk

2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder
pinch salt
2 1/2 cups blueberries
zest of 1 lemon

For Streusel:
2/3 cup sugar
2/3 flour
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 cup melted butter

For Lemon Drizzle (optional):
1/2 cup powdered sugar
Juice from about 1/2 lemon

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease and flour an 9x9" square or 7x11" rectangular glass baking dish.

In a large bowl, cream sugar and butter. Add the egg and whisk to combine. Add the rest of the ingredients, except for the blueberries and stir until just combined. Fold in the blueberries gently. Pour into the prepared pan.

Mix the Streusel ingredients in a smaller bowl. Sprinkle evenly over blueberry mixture. Bake for 45-50 minutes at 375 degrees.

When you pull the buckle out of the oven, it will be puffed up and golden, but will "buckle" while it cools. Mix together the lemon drizzle ingredients, adding lemon juice if necessary to get a drizzling consistency. Drizzle over the top of the buckle while it is still hot. This will melt into the streusel and be delicious. Serve warm or refrigerate and serve cold.