This easy breakfast cake is brimming with blueberries, flavored with vanilla and lemon, and mildly sweet.
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Have plans for the first day of the year? We do. We try to make it as special as New Year’s Eve by doing outside activities we love, seeing people we love and eating food we love.

Of course, we don’t want to spend much time cooking, so I look for recipes that come together quickly, like this breakfast cake. Once the ingredients are assembled, it takes about 10 minutes to get it in the oven, and you can make it a day before serving. Brimming with blueberries, flavored with vanilla and lemon, and mildly sweet, it makes the morning meal shine.

Blueberry breakfast cake

Make in an 8-inch shiny metal springform pan. Adjusted for altitudes of 7,000 feet and above.

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Cake ingredients

• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1 1/2 cups plus 3 tablespoons unbleached all-purpose flour, spoon and level
• 3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon granulated sugar, preferably superfine
• Slightly less than 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 generous teaspoon grated lemon zest
• 2 large eggs, room temperature
• 1/4 cup plus 3 tablespoon sour cream, Greek yogurt or whole milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla paste or vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups fresh blueberries
• Powdered sugar, optional

Glaze ingredients, optional

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• At least 1/3 cup powdered sugar
• At least 2 tablespoons cream or milk
• Lemon juice or lemon oil, to taste

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees with a rack in the center position. Grease your pan with a baking spray that contains flour and set it aside. Unlock your springform pan, flip over the bottom so the lip faces down, and relock the pan. This will make it easier to cut the cake once it’s baked.

Cut the butter into small pieces, place them in a microwave-safe bowl or 2-cup measure and heat in a microwave oven at low-medium temperature until melted. Set aside to cool slightly. While the butter cools, put the flour, sugar, baking …….

Source: https://www.summitdaily.com/opinion/columns/high-country-baking-blueberry-breakfast-cake/