Recipes Ingredients Fruit Blueberry Recipes Classic Blueberry Crumb Cake 5.0 (3) This buttery, fruit-studded cake is just right for breakfast, snacking, or after dinner. Prep Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Servings: 12 Yield: 1 9-inch cake Jump to recipe Our classic blueberry crumb cake is moist, buttery, and incredibly tender. A sweet, crumbly topping adds a welcome textural contrast to the pillowy soft cake, while fresh blueberries and sour cream combine for a tangy lift. Speaking of blueberries, you’ll find them in the cake itself as well as in the topping, ensuring a burst of juicy fruit in every bite. You’ll need an electric mixer to cream the butter and sugar, as well as a 13-by-9-inch pan for baking the cake. Serve it after dinner, for a sweet brunch treat, or alongside a cup of coffee for a midday pick-me-up. 23 Blackberry Recipes That Celebrate Summer’s Juiciest Fruit Credit: Jake Sternquist Crumb Cake Vs. Coffee Cake Both coffee cake and crumb cake feature a buttery yellow cake topped with a sweet streusel and can be cinnamon-forward or include fruit, like in this blueberry version. Where they differ is in the amount of topping itself. In a coffee cake, the streusel is merely an accent to the larger proportion of cake, whereas crumb cakes feature a nearly equal ratio of cake to crumb. Top Tips for Making Blueberry Crumb Cake Let your butter soften: Before creaming the butter and sugar, it’s important to let your butter warm to room temperature. This is best done by letting it sit on the counter for about an hour (or less, if your kitchen is quite warm). Cutting it into small pieces will speed up the process, or you can place the butter in a small bowl and set that in another bowl of warm water if you’re in a time crunch. Spoon your flour: When measuring the flour for this recipe—and all other baking recipes, unless specified otherwise—it’s best to spoon your flour into the measuring cup rather than scoop the cup into the flour container. Scooping can cause the flour to pack too tightly, which can throw off the amount that ends up in your recipe. Don’t overmix: You’ve likely heard this one before, and for good reason. Over-mixing can develop excess gluten in your batter, which leads to a tough cake. To avoid this, stop mixing as soon as the dry ingredients are incorporated into the batter, then use a spatula to fold in the blueberries. Directions Credit: Jake Sternquist Preheat oven and prep pan; sift dry ingredients: Preheat oven to 350°F and butter a 13-by-9-inch baking pan. Into a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Credit: Jake Sternquist Cream butter and sugar: In the bowl of electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream butter and granulated sugar until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Credit: Jake Sternquist Add eggs, then vanilla: Add eggs, one at a time, until well combined. Add vanilla, and beat until combined. Credit: Jake Sternquist Add flour mixture and sour cream;fold in berries: Add reserved flour mixture and the sour cream, and beat just until well combined. Fold in 2 cups blueberries. Credit: Jake Sternquist Transfer to pan; toss remaining berries with crumb topping: Spoon batter into prepared pan. Toss remaining cup blueberries with the crumb topping. Sprinkle crumb topping over cake. Credit: Jake Sternquist Bake; let cool: Bake until golden brown and cake tester comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes. Let cool completely. Dust with confectioners' sugar before serving. Credit: Jake Sternquist How to Store Blueberry Crumb Cake This buttery cake can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days. For longer storage, wrap the cooled cake tightly in plastic wrap, then in a large freezer bag, and freeze for up to 3 months. (Cut the leftover cake in half before wrapping if needed, so it fits in the freezer bag.) Variations Greek yogurt: In place of sour cream, you can use an equal amount of Greek yogurt. Different pans: If you don’t have a 13-by-9-inch pan, you can divide the batter and crumb topping between two 8-inch round or square pans. 5 More Crumb Cake Recipes to Try Rhubarb Crumb Cake New York Crumb Cake Sour Cherry Crumb Cakes Snickerdoodle Crumb Bars Plum-Jam Crumb Cake Updated by Esther Reynolds Esther Reynolds Esther Reynolds is an experienced recipe developer, recipe tester, food editor, and writer with over a decade of experience in the food and media industries.