Best Buttermilk Breakfast Cake With Fresh Berries
Holy cow, when we had a bite of this berry buttermilk breakfast cake, we were floored. It’s so good and so easy to make, we couldn’t stop ourselves from a second serving. There’s everything we love in this breakfast cake: tons of fresh berries and buttermilk, soft texture, just the right sweetness. It’s not just any berry breakfast cake. Nor is it any ordinary buttermilk breakfast cake. That’s why we decided to call it the very berry buttermilk breakfast cake. It’s a whole mouth-full to say, when when you take a bite, you’ll understand why we couldn’t make the name any shorter. And best of all, we couldn’t just add one type of berry. We added three different kinds and we’re super glad we did because it truly is a very-very-berry cake filled with berries in every bite.
Video: Buttermilk Berry Breakfast Cake Recipe
Easy Buttermilk Breakfast Cake Recipe
Certainly, you can just add one type of berry. If you do, we suggest blueberries because of the rich delicious flavor that goes out of the cake when the blueberries are baked. But if you have some extra berries lying around, definitely make it the very-berry by adding raspberries, strawberries and blackberries. YUM! At this point we haven’t tried making the breakfast cake with frozen berries. The fresh berries have been so good in our local stores lately so it has been the best way to go. However if you try the berry breakfast cake with the frozen berries, we’d love to hear how it comes out.
The hardest part about this cake is that you have to be patient and wait for it to cool. It’s so good that when we made it the third time, we had to wait for the whole thing to cool before we added the whipped topping on top. But patience is key!
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This recipe was originally published in 2017 and re-published in 2019 with an updated video.
Very Berry Buttermilk Breakfast Cake
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter (113g or 1 stick) , at room temperature
- Zest from 1 large lemon
- 1 Tablespoon lemon juice (15ml)
- 1 cup granulated sugar (200g)
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (5ml)
- 1 3/4 cup flour (250g)
- 2 teaspoons baking powder (10ml)
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt (5ml)
- 2 cups fresh blueberries (12 ounces or 340g) (or other fresh berries of choice)
- ½ cup buttermilk (120ml) *see note below for homemade
- Powdered sugar for sprinkling
- Whipped topping or whipped cream (optional)
- Extra berries for topping (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375º F. Grease 9x9 inch square baking pan.
- In large bowl, cream butter, lemon zest, lemon juice and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla, beat until combined.
- In separate bowl sift together or whisk: flour for breakfast cake, baking powder and salt.
- Add the dry flour mixture and the buttermilk to the wet egg batter, mixing until just combined, don’t overmix. Fold in the berries.Spread batter into pan.
- Bake for 40 to 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Cool the cake, sprinkle with powdered sugar and dollop with whipped topping and/or more berries!
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Wendy Maxfield says
I made this for the first time a few weeks ago. Wow what a treat! We love it!! I’ve made it three times now giving one of them to a sick friend. I only had frozen blueberries and frozen raspberries so I used them. Everything came out perfectly. We’ll be eating and sharing this for years to come. Thank you.
Best Recipe Box says
Hi Wendy! Yay! So glad you enjoyed this breakfast cake. It’s definitely one of our favorites!
Jackie says
Can this be frozen in serving sizes?
Best Recipe Box says
Yes, it can! Though when it thaws, some of the fruit might release little moisture, but if you pop it in the oven for a few minutes it will become a little more firm.