Breakfast Cake - recipe

Music Mystery Series, Vol. 1

by C. M. Albrecht

Detective Steve Music is a disillusioned cop with problems. Shelly Lambert is a woman who lost her son to a predator eight years ago. Together they work to solve another child-related mystery.

Blueberry Breakfast Cake

Original recipe makes 1 9x9-inch pan Change Servings

• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  
• 1/2 cup white sugar
  
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
  
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
  
• 1/2 cup butter, melted
  
• 1/2 cup milk
  
• 1 egg

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  Topping:
   
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
  
• 1/4 cup white sugar
  
• 3 tablespoons butter, melted
  
• 1 (21 ounce) can blueberry pie filling
  
• 1/4 teaspoon lemon extract
  
• 1/4 cup fresh blueberries

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x9-inch baking pan.
2. Mix 1 1/4 cups flour, 1/2 cup white sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a bowl using a fork. Stir 1/2 cup butter, milk, egg, and vanilla extract into flour mixture until evenly combined. Pour batter into prepared pan.
3. Combine 1/2 cup flour, 1/4 cup white sugar, and 3 tablespoons butter in a bowl using a fork until mixture resembles crumbs; sprinkle half the crumb mixture over the batter.
4. Stir blueberry pie filling and lemon extract together in a bowl; spread over crumb topping. Sprinkle blueberries over pie filling; top with remaining crumb topping.
5. Bake in the preheated oven until cake is golden brown, about 1 hour.