Huckleberry Coffee Cake

My boyfriend Cy, is from Montana and he introduced me to huckleberries and lets just say it changed my life.  I'm like a kid in the candy store when I'm in Montana because everything is flavored with huckleberries!  Last summer Cy took me to the farmers market in Missoula where I got to try my first piece of Black Cat Bake Shop's Huckleberry Coffee Cake.  I have never been a huge coffee cake fan but let me just say it was the best piece I ever had in my life still to this day.  Cy brought me back some huckleberries on his last trip he took there this summer and I wanted to try and replicate their coffee cake for us.  I got the vote of approval from Cy and it turned out delicious!  I'm sure if you don't have huckleberries you can use blueberries and it would taste wonderful.

Also on a side note, you see that vase in the picture above?  Cy has gotten into making vases from stumps of wood and he taught me how to make one and viola, our creation, isn't it beautiful?!

Ingredients

For the Topping:

5 Tbsp Flour

1/2 Cup Sugar

1 Tsp Cinnamon

4 Tbsp Cold Butter

A little bit of salt

For the Cake:

1 3/4 Cups and 3 Tbsp of Flour

2 Tsp Baking Powder

1/2 Tsp Salt

4 Tbsp softened Butter

3/4 Cup Sugar

1 Egg

1 Tsp Vanilla

2-3 Cups of Huckleberries

1/2 Cup Whole Milk

Directions

1.)  Heat oven to 375.  Butter a 9 inch round pan and dust with a little bit of flour.  Line it with a parchment round on the bottom

2.)  Prepare the streusel topping by mixing the flour, sugar, cinnamon and salt.  Cut the butter into little squares and using your fingertips or pastry blender cut the butter into the flour mixture until it looks like crumbs.  

3.)  In a bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder and salt together.  In another bigger bowl, beat the butter and sugar together until its fluffy.  Add the egg and vanilla and beat until its all combined.  

4.)  Beat in 1/3 of the dry mixture until just combined.  Follow by adding 1/2 the milk.  Add another 1/3 of the flour mixture and beat until combined.  Follow with the rest of the milk.  Finish by beating the remaining flour mixture into the dough until just combined.  The batter will be thick but trust me the cake will be moist.  

5.)  Fold in the huckleberries until they are even all around.

6.)  Spoon the cake batter into the pan and smooth it down until its flat.  Sprinkle with the streusel topping.  Bake in the oven for about 40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.  

7.)  Cool in the pan for about 20 minutes.  Flip it out onto a cooling rack, remove the parchment paper lining and flip back onto a plate.  Dust with powdered sugar to make it even more stunning.  

Happy Sunday everyone!  

"In so many relationships and circumstances in life, we must live with differences. Where vital, our side of these differences should not be denied or abandoned, but as followers of Christ we should live peacefully with others who do not share our values or accept the teachings upon which they are based. The Father’s plan of salvation, which we know by prophetic revelation, places us in a mortal circumstance where we are to keep His commandments. That includes loving our neighbors of different cultures and beliefs as He has loved us. As a Book of Mormon prophet taught, we must press forward, having “a love of God and of all men" (2 Nephi 31:20)." Elder Oaks - General Conference October 2014