(Upside Down by Accident) Blueberry Buttermilk Cake
Who doesn't love the Smitten Kitchen? She's amazing and always come up with the most delicious dishes.
When I saw her Raspberry Buttermilk Cake, I knew I had to make it. I love breakfast and tea cakes. I just don't like frosting...I've been peeling it off since I was a little kid!
Also, I bought the mammoth box of California blueberries from Costco and have to come up with 10 ways to use them. :)
So, like the saying, "when life gives you a cake with blueberries on the bottom, turn the damn thing over," I served it as an upside down cake, and dusted it with some powdered sugar.
The bottom had a nice crunch because the sugar topping was on the bottom! :)
Recipe: From Smitten Kitchen who got it from Gourmet. Use either one.
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You suck. I am going to buy you a LEGALIZE FROSTITUTION shirt.
Yay frosting!!!
Going to have to make this tomorrow!!! The hubs was just saying I needed to make something with berries in it :D
Nice save, this looks great! I buy the Costco blueberries as well, so this recipe will get made soon.
Ha it s a great idea and afterall it looks great ! Delicious too. Pity I don t find bleuberries here :(
I loved it! What lovely colours! :)
That looks fantastic! I think the blueberries look gorgeous at the top/bottom.
YUM!
Mine did the same thing - looked just like yours. Must be the consistency of the dense BBs? Regardless, it tastes SO good.
Beautiful pics, too!
Ohhhhhhh that looks so good!
Wow looks so so yumm.
Wow...it must have taken so much pastry-chef skill to get those blueberries from sinking! Your cake is just perfect. (Oh, was I supposed to READ something? I was too busy looking at the pictures...sorry, not time!)
I'm a wholehearted supporter of your new proverb...it really really looks good.
Way to make lemonade!! I think it looks delicious and so pretty as an upside down cake...how about just a drizzle of glaze?
Looks yummy just the way it is!
Seriously? You don't like the frosting? Wow.
This cake looks fantastic. I saw it over on SK and a friend made it and raved about it. I definitely want to give it a try.
I think it looks so pretty though! At least they all fell and not bits of blueberry everywhere. Everything you make always looks amazing!
Looks yummy! As a single person with no car, I am sadly unable to purchase Costco blueberries...which is depressing, since I love them. I resort to buying absurd numbers of them when they go on sale at the local QFC :P But I also am not the hugest fan of frosting - high five! Love your blog :)
I haven't looked at the recipe for this yet (need to run in two seconds) but there's a blueberry coffee cake recipe I've made a few times that calls for you to add the blueberries midway (or so) through baking, which ends up with the blueberries nicely splattered on top.
Looks delicious. Wish blueberries were available here!
Haha way to salvage the cake! I bet it tastes amazing even if the blueberries did sink.
love it upside down! my next post is a smitten kitchen recipe too :)
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I have the same container of blueberries waiting to be used. I may freeze them though.
This looks delicious!
What a creative solution! It looks wonderful.
I hear blueberries are going to be an excellent bargain this summer. I love that you just flipped it around. I think it looks very pretty. I am mixed on frosting. Sometimes I love it, other times, not so much.
I don't like raspberries, so I immediately thought of blueberries when I saw this recipe on SK! Great job here, it looks so moist and delicate, perfect for coffee or tea!
This is gorgeous!
I'm going to try and make this with all those raspberries I picked up.
Oh, yes! So happy to see this here as I have raspberries blackberries AND blueberries that need to be used up.
Btw, very cool serving it upside down! :)
~ingrid
Just wanted to let you know that I think your photography is (as always) amazing.
Yumm looks delicious! I think it's cool that they completely sunk to the bottom.
Wonderful looking recipe, especially right now when blueberries are coming into season. Thanks for the inspiration!
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Wow, lovely. Definitely will need to make this one.
Looks awesome! What a happy accident!! I love buttermilk cakes to begin with, but the addition of blueberries is just right up my alley. How awesome! I wish I could have a slice of this gorgeous tea cake for breakfast. Sorry I've been away for the past week; I had a good friend in town and wasn't able to do much on the computer. I'm back now, though :)
I didn't read the original recipe, but in many recipes I've read involving blueberries in baked goods, it usually suggests to toss the blueberries in some corn starch first. This supposedly keeps them from sinking.
It might be worth trying.
Beautiful cake though, the layering looks really neat. It might be better of with the blueberries sinking.
I don't like frosting either. So there.
So, like the saying, "when life gives you a cake with blueberries on the bottom, turn the damn thing over"Haha! The cake came out beautiful and tasty just the way you did it. I can imagine the little crisp sound when you bite the bottom.
And you're right - who doesn't love Deb? She rocks.
That looks awesome and delicious! I just made a strawberry rhubarb upside down cake.
Even if the blueberries sank to the bottom, it's still a stunning cake! I would love a big, fat slice :-)
If you're looking for more blueberry ideas, how about a blueberry buckle? I made one a few years ago and it was so good, been meaning to make it again.
So, so, so good! I made this but with the raspberries and it was gone in less than 24 hours. Such a great recipe.
i absolutely must try this!!! this looks fantastic to make!
I Just made this, but with raspberries, since that's all I had. yeah those little suckers sank. But the cake was so so good I ate it all by myself in one day. Cause I have no self control.
OK, I have serious blog envy now. Such gorgeous pictures, amazing. It looks soooooo good to.
Looks fantastic. My grammie has a recipe I've made every year since she passed... trick to keeping the blueberries from sinking (aside from picking your own or finding the rare small ones I remember from my childhood) flour the blueberries before folding them into the batter : )
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