Categories: cake

Ingredients

• Cake Batter:
• 3/4 cup sugar
• (if you want the sugar-free recipe, click here!)
• 1/4 cup soft butter (or margarine or vegetable shortening)
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cups milk (nonfat, lowfat or whole; depending upon how healthy you like to be!)
• 2 cups flour (all-purpose white, wheat, whole grain, whatever)
• 2 and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)
• 2 and 1/4 cups blueberries; fresh or frozen (without syrup)
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• Crumb topping:
• 3/4 cup sugar (if you want the sugar-free recipe, click here!)
• 1/2 cup flour (plain white, wheat, yada yada...). you can sift it, if you want...
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 cup soft butter or margarine (not vegetable shortening here)

Directions

1. eheat oven to 375.

2. Wash blueberries.

3. Combine the 3/4 cup sugar, 2 and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt (optional) and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon in a bowl and mix well!

4. Add the 1/4 cup soft butter (or margarine or vegetable shortening), the egg and using a mixer (hand, electric, or just a large spoon, whatever you have) , mix it up!

5. Add the 1/2 cups milk and mix it up.

6. While mixing, stir in the 2 cups of flour! (it’s just like making pancakes). It will end up like very thick pancake batter. You may have to finish mixing by hand .

7. Add the blueberries and gently mix it. You don’t want to crush the berries, but it won’t matter if some get crushed, either!

8. Grease and flour pans.

9. Pour batter into pans.

10. Make the topping

11. Now to make the topping, in another bowl, mix together the topping ingredients:

12. 3/4 cup sugar

13. 1/2 cup flour

14. 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

15. 1/4 cup soft or melted butter or margarine

16. Sprinkle crumb topping on batter.

17. Bake for 45 minutes.

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