New Hampshire Blueberry Cake Recipes

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to the creamed mixture alternately with sour cream, beating well after each addition. Fold in blueberries., Spoon half of batter into a greased and floured 10-in. fluted tube pan. In a small bowl, combine the brown sugar, pecans if desired, and cinnamon. Sprinkle half over the batter. Top with remaining batter; sprinkle with remaining brown sugar mixture. Cut through batter with a knife to swirl the brown sugar mixture., Bake at 350° until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean, 55-60 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. Just before serving, dust with confectioners' sugar.

Steps:

• 1. Cream the butter until light, then add sugar and continue creaming until fluffy. beat in egg.
• 2. Mix flour and soda and add alternately with the sour milk, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients. The batter will be very stiff but it MUST be to support the load of blueberries now to be added.
• 3. Pat blueberries dry on paper toweling and stir into the batter. Spread batter in a well greased 9 x 9 inch baking pan. Bake in a moderately slow (325) oven 45 to 50 minutes or until cake is nicely browned on top and has pulled from sides of pan. Or until, as the old recipe says, "The cake begins to smell good." Cool cake upright in its pan on a wire rack to room temperature before cutting. Makes one 9 x 9 inch loaf cake.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle. Line bottom and sides of a 9-inch square baking pan with heavy-duty foil, leaving an overhang on 2 sides. Butter bottom and sides of pan, then dust with flour, knocking out excess.
• Make streusel topping:
• Stir together flour, sugars, cinnamon, and a pinch of salt in a large bowl. Blend in butter with your fingertips or a pastry blender until mixture forms large clumps.
• Make cake:
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.
• Stir together sour cream and vanilla in a small bowl.
• Beat together butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add egg and beat until well blended.
• At low speed, mix in flour mixture in 3 batches, alternating with sour-cream mixture and mixing until just combined.
• Gently fold in blueberries.
• Spoon batter into pan, smoothing top (preferably with an offset spatula). Crumble half of topping evenly over batter.
• Bake 25 minutes, then remove from oven and crumble remaining topping evenly over cake. Bake until a wooden pick inserted into center comes out clean, about 25 minutes more. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Lift out cake using foil and cool completely on rack.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13-inch baking dish.
• Sift 2 1/2 cups flour, 1 1/2 cup sugar, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl. Add milk, vegetable oil, eggs, and vanilla extract; mix into a semi-thick batter.
• Toss blueberries with about 2 teaspoons flour in a separate bowl; fold into batter. Pour batter into prepared baking dish.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cake is lightly browned, 25 to 30 minutes. Brush melted butter on top of cake and sprinkle with about 2 tablespoons sugar. Continue to bake until golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 5 to 10 more minutes.