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Blueberry Boy Bait
Aug. 1st, 2011 08:58 amTime to trot out all the recipes I've tried that use summer ingredients. Made this one last year and liked it a lot. Brian liked that it wasn't too sweet but thought it was almost a little too buttery/fatty. And since he's not such a blueberry fan anyhow, he wasn't so keen on it (even though he did eat 2 pieces). I liked eating this for breakfast or for a mid-afternoon break with tea.
Looking online, there are versions that use just 1 stick butter or 1.25 sticks butter and still reported good results. So next time I'll reduce the amount of butter. I used heaping half cups of the blueberries in both steps since I love blueberries and we had 3 pints of them. Also, for the topping portion, I ran out of sugar. I had only enough granulated sugar to fill maybe half of the 1/4 cup measuring cup. Filled in the rest (but not all the way) and then when I was sprinkling it over the top of the batter, I sprinkled enough to cover and then held back a small portion (maybe 1/4 to 1/2 tsp?). The batter had a good amount of structure and volume to it. Also, I baked it in an oven that was a little too hot. Might've been more like 375F for 40-45 minutes total. My pan is slightly larger than the specified 13 by 9-inch pan, so the resulting height of my cake isn't as tall as it might have been.
Looking online, there are versions that use just 1 stick butter or 1.25 sticks butter and still reported good results. So next time I'll reduce the amount of butter. I used heaping half cups of the blueberries in both steps since I love blueberries and we had 3 pints of them. Also, for the topping portion, I ran out of sugar. I had only enough granulated sugar to fill maybe half of the 1/4 cup measuring cup. Filled in the rest (but not all the way) and then when I was sprinkling it over the top of the batter, I sprinkled enough to cover and then held back a small portion (maybe 1/4 to 1/2 tsp?). The batter had a good amount of structure and volume to it. Also, I baked it in an oven that was a little too hot. Might've been more like 375F for 40-45 minutes total. My pan is slightly larger than the specified 13 by 9-inch pan, so the resulting height of my cake isn't as tall as it might have been.
