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Blueberry Lemon Crumb Cakes

Fluffy, soft lemon cakes with blueberries, crumb topping and lemon cream cheese icing
Course Breakfast, Brunch, Dessert
Servings 6 4-inch crumb cakes

Ingredients
  

Crumb Topping

  • ¾ cup (96g) all purpose flour
  • cup (66g) granulated sugar
  • 2 tablespoons (25g) packed brown sugar
  • teaspoon fine sea salt
  • 4 ½ tablespoons (64g) cold, unsalted butter, cubed

Crumb Cakes

  • 1 ¼ cups (159g) all purpose flour, sifted
  • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
  • teaspoon fine sea salt
  • 6 tablespoons (85g) unsalted butter, softened
  • ¾ cup (150g) granulated sugar
  • Zest of 2 medium-sized lemons
  • 1 large egg, room temperature
  • 1 large egg yolk, room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • ½ teaspoon pure lemon extract
  • cup (78ml) whole milk, room temperature
  • ¼ cup (57g) sour cream, room temperature
  • 1 cup (170g) blueberries
  • 1 teaspoon all purpose flour for blueberries

Cream Cheese Icing

  • 1 tablespoon (14g) cream cheese, softened
  • 1 tablespoon (14g) unsalted butter, melted
  • ¾ cup (85g) powdered sugar, sifted
  • 1 pinch fine sea salt
  • 2-3 tablespoons (30-45ml) fresh lemon juice

Instructions
 

Crumb Topping

  • In a medium-sized bowl, whisk the flour, sugar, brown sugar and salt together until well blended.
  • Work the butter into the flour mixture with your fingertips until it looks sandy with no large pieces of butter remaining. Press the mixture together to form chunks. Set aside in the refrigerator until ready to use.

Crumb Cakes

  • Preheat the oven to 350ºF (180ºC). Line a 6-serving shallow jumbo muffin pan* with jumbo muffin liners.** Jumbo muffin liners will fit by pressing them around the inside bottom edges.
  • In a medium-sized bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt until well blended.
  • In a large bowl, cream the butter, sugar and lemon zest with an electric mixer on medium speed, until pale and fluffy. Beat the egg and egg yolk into the butter mixture in 2 separate additions, making sure each addition is well incorporated. Beat in the extracts until combined.
  • In a small bowl, whisk the milk and sour cream together. With the mixer on low speed or by hand, mix the flour mixture into the batter in 2 additions alternating with half of the milk mixture after each addition. Mix just until combined.
  • Transfer the batter to the prepared baking pan, evenly distributing the batter and filling the cups about half full.
  • In a medium-sized bowl, toss the blueberries with 1 teaspoon of flour and place them into the cups on top of the batter, about 1 ounce (28g) in each. Top each one with crumb topping.
  • Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cakes comes out clean, about 25-30 minutes. Let the cakes cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then transfer them to a cooling rack to cool completely.

Cream Cheese Icing

  • In a medium-sized bowl, whisk together the cream cheese, melted butter, powdered sugar, salt and 1 tablespoon (30ml) of lemon juice. Add additional lemon juice, a little at a time until your desired consistency is reached. Drizzle over the cooled cakes.

Notes

*To find the muffin pan I used, click here.
**To find jumbo muffin liners, click here.
To find 4-inch cake pans, click here.
Keyword blueberry lemon, cake