Apple Blueberry Coffee Cake
This homemade Apple Blueberry Coffee Cake is love at first bite! It's a light, tender cake filled with sweet apples (that taste like homemade apple pie filling!) and it is topped with a brown sugar crust!
Servings: 8 slices
Ingredients
Cake
- 1/4 cup oil
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 3/4 cups sugar
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp all spice
- 1/2 Tbsp lemon zest
- 3/4 cup chopped apples, whatever you have on hand is fine, however the firmer the better
- 1/2 cup blueberries
Topping
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 Tbsp flour
- 2 tsp. cinnamon
- 2 Tbsp melted butter
Icing Drizzle
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1 Tbsp milk
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees and grease a 9" circular cake pan or an 8x8 square baking pan.
- In a small bowl, mix together flour, sugar, lemon zest, baking powder, cinnamon, all spice and salt.
- In a separate mixing bowl, lightly mix together oil, egg, vanilla extract, and milk.
- Make a well in the center of dry ingredients, and pour wet ingredients into it. Stir gently, as to not over stir the mix.
- Once just combined, fold in chopped apples and blueberries. Pour into your pan and set aside.
- In a small bowl, mix together the topping ingredients until combined. Sprinkle evenly over the top of the batter in the pan. Use a rubber spatula to swirl the topping.
- Bake for 25 minutes or until your cake tester comes out clean.
- While the cake is cooling, make the icing by stirring together the powdered sugar, vanilla extract and milk. Drizzle over the top of the coffee cake.
- Serve warm, or cool.