Blueberry Orange Coffee Cake

This Blueberry Orange Coffee Cake is packed with refreshing citrusy flavours and many fresh blueberries and topped with crunchy cinnamon streusel —just a perfect dessert for your summer gathering.

About This Recip

• This delicious coffee cake is super tasty and easy to prepare.
• The ingredients are simple, and you probably already have them in your pantry! Well, you might need to buy some fresh blueberries.
• This Blueberry Orange Coffee Cake can have the plane top like the above picture or be topped with a delicious streusel topping.
• If you go for the streusel topping, we will need two sets of ingredients—one batch for the streusel and one for the cake.
• Streusel has simple components, such as flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, and butter. Streusel creates a crunchy topping on cakes or muffins, adding flavour and texture.
• All the flavour in this coffee cake comes from citrus fruit, which could be either orange or lemon or even a combination of the two.
• Another point I would like to mention is the blueberries. I am sure you have seen other bakers say you can use frozen or fresh blueberries. I prefer using fresh blueberries because they will not bleed into the cake. However, if you have to use frozen ones, do not thaw them.
• If baking the Blueberry Orange Coffee Cake with the streusel, you cannot flip the cake over the cooling rack because all the topping will fall off. Instead, bake this cake in a springform pan. Covering the bottom of the pan with foil is a good idea to avoid oil leaking out of the pan into your oven.

How To Make The Blueberry Orange Coffee Cake

Streusel

• Prepare the streusel by mixing all dry ingredients, then add the chopped cold butter to the dry ingredients and rub the butter into the flour mixture. Try to create clusters from the mixture, not blend the butter into the flour. Set this mixture in the fridge until later.

Cake

• Whisk all dry ingredients, and set aside.
• Use the paddle attachment and beat the sugar and butter until smooth and fluffy.
• Add the eggs one at a time, along with vanilla extract and beat well after each egg is added.
• Mix the oil, milk, and orange/ lemon juice in a measuring cup.
• Add the dry ingredients alternating with wet ingredients in three passes.
• Fold in the blueberries and gently mix.
• If using streusel topping, Cover the bottom of the springform pan with foil, and pour the batter into the pan. Cover the top with the streusel and bake.
• If not using the topping, pour the batter into an 8-inch pan and bake. You can place a few blueberries on top before baking.

See more recipes using fruits;

Blueberry Orange Bundt,

Lemon-Glazed Cookies,

Lemon Crackle Cookies,

Strawberry White Chocolate Cheesecake

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