Blueberry Streusel Coffee Cake

Happy Friday y'all,

Late this afternoon, I was invited to a Easter Brunch at the park tomorrow! I just love a good party, it gives me another opportunity to whip up something to share with my friends, and these just aren't friends they are church friends! I was so excited, I  was asked to bring a coffee cake. My first thought was something with cranberries. Y'all know I just adore those cute little red buttons of sweetness. Guess what? You can't buy fresh cranberries this time of the year at the grocery store. I wanted to use fresh fruit, not anything from a can or frozen so guess what I did right there in the store. I whipped out my handy dandy iphone and googled a recipe for Blueberry Coffee Cake. My lands, there's a gob of recipes to look at. Luckily for me and the produce man the first recipe I came upon was a Blueberry Streusel Coffee Cake. That's the one I wanna make I told him!

Since it being Easter, church friends and all I just couldn't show up with my old trusty aluminum cake pan, I wanted something pretty to bake it in. Lord have mercy, Miss Paula Deen came to my rescue right there in the middle of Wal-mart. She must have known I was in need of something springy, I found the prettiest Robin's Egg baking dish. Oh and it's scalloped all the way around!

I pulled out all my ingredients and withing minutes I had her in the oven baking away. The house smells divine! I can't wait to cut into her tomorrow... Keep your fingers crossed that she taste as good as she looks!

Blueberry Streusel Coffee Cake

Topping:
1 cup of brown sugar
1/2 cup sifted  of all- purpose flour
1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
2 teaspoons of cinnamon

Mix together until crumbly. Set aside

Batter:
3 cups of sifted all- purpose flour
5 teaspoons of baking powder
1 teaspoon of salt

Sift all of these in a bowl and set aside.

In a medium bowl mix together:

2 eggs
1 1/2 cups of sugar
2/3 cups of melted butter

Next add 1 cup of milk and 2 teaspoons of vanila. Once mixed together, add flour mixture. Mix well.

Transfer half the batter to a greased and floured 9x13 baking dish. Next, sprinkle 2- 6ounce containers of rinsed blueberries. Add remaining batter over the blueberries. I used a spatula for this. Sprinkle topping over the top. You can add if you want, 2/3 cups of pecans or your favorite nuts over the topping.

Bake 375 for 35 - 40 minutes, if by chance its getting to brown for your liking cover with a sheet of foil. That's what I did and bake away!

It's never to late in the day to try a new recipe!