Blueberry Coffee Cake!!!

It's finally Saturday!!! Last night I fell asleep thinking about blueberry coffee cake! When I awoke I couldn't wait to start on the project! I have made several coffee cakes before, but never this recipe and never a blueberry one.

What caught my interest about this recipe (besides that it was coffee cake with blueberries) was that it contained cream cheese. It made me wonder if it'd resemble a cream cheese danish, which meant I definitely had to try it! What also peaked my curiosity was that it didn't contain brown sugar. The other coffee cakes I've made contain brown sugar in the crumbly topping, so I wasn't quite sure how a coffee cake without brown sugar would turn out. With these two things grabbing my attention, I decided to give the recipe a try!

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... The coffee cake turned out fluffy, creamy, and absolutely fabulous! It had just enough blueberries to add zing, but not enough to be overwhelming. It was sweet, but not too sweet. The combination of cream cheese, feathery cake, juicy berries, and crunchy topping created the perfect variety of textures!

The cake was soft and springy with pockets of cream cheese and blueberries. The topping, without brown sugar, created a thin layer of crust--which added a slight crunch and held in the warmth.

This recipe is definitely a keeper!

After stirring in the blueberries and cream cheese cubes

After sprinkling the topping in an even layer over the cake batter

The top layer becomes a thin crust after it's baked

Pockets of cream cheese and blueberries

The perfect combination of textures!

TIP:
- Promise half of your cake to friends, neighbors, or coworkers if you're in the baking mood but don't want a whole coffee cake calling your name every time you open the fridge.



What I'll do differently next time:
- I'll add more cream cheese and/or I'll make the cubes smaller. I'll also make sure to stir them in one at a time so they'll distribute more evenly and so they don't clump together. The goal being to have cream cheese in more bites.







Still to come:
- I also made some soups today, but I will post those later this week.
- Thanksgiving food!
- Make your own pizza!