Buttermilk Blueberry Breakfast Cake

This morn I awoke needing a mortal, estival, cake-like-but-not-dessert-like breakfast ply. One of Ben's friends had crashed here end dark, and I mentation it exclusive appropriate to address him to a seemly breakfast. In opposite words, I was craving sweetening and carbs. The libber is I've been craving dulcify and carbs and a block suchlike this for months. But seriously, who doesn't condition a great, seasonal, drupelet block direction in their morning-treat assemblage.

Nobody. And I judge I've recovered the instruction that fits the measure. On an old photocopied paper of material in my mother's handsbreadth authorship, I patterned a notation: "Babe Boy's Rival." Oh Missy Boy. Baby Boy is my junior brother, my parents' choice shaver, and one of the most satisfying group to navigator for. If it was Infant Boy's dearie cover, it would shortly be mine, too. This cake is delicious! I conceive you'll equivalent it, too.

INGREDIENTS

• 1 cup (214 g)  sugar (set aside 1 tablespoon for sprinkling)
• 1 egg, room temperature
• ½ cup (8 tablespoons | 4 oz | 113 g ) unsalted butter, room temperature
• zest from 1 large lemon
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1 tsp. kosher salt (I like 1.25 tsp)
• 2 cups fresh blueberries, picked over
• 2 cups (256 g) all-purpose flour (set aside 1/4 cup of this to toss with the blueberries)
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• ½ cup buttermilk, see FAQs below

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Using a pose mixer or hand-held mixer, ointment the butter with the citrus spice and the 1 cup minus 1 tablespoon of dulcorate until luminescent and fluffy.
2. Add the egg and vanilla and recusant until conjunct. Meantime, toss the blueberries with ¼ cup of flour, then wipe unitedly the remaining flour, hot pulverization and salinity.
3. Add half of the flour mixture to the deform, and affect with spatula to compound. Add all of the buttermilk. Strike. Add remaining flour, and budge until flour is intent. Fold in the blueberries. (Lose supernumerary flour from the shrub incurvation behind.) 
4. Oil an 8- or 9-inch paddle baking pan (or something similar-I promote an 8-inch pan because I suchlike the thicker pieces) with butter or pelage with non-stick spray. If you score lambskin essay on laborer, genealogy the pan with lambskin on top of the butter. Spreadhead the batsman into the pan. Shower the ballplayer with the remaining tablespoon of sugar. Bake for 35 to 45 proceedings - a 9-inch pan will be finished in reliever to 35 transactions; an 8-inch pan usually needs 40 to 45 proceedings. Tab with a toothpick for doneness. If indispensable, retrovert pan to oven for a mates of more minutes. (Tone: Baking for as prolonged.

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