Thank you everyone for your generous compliments and requests to share my recipe for the Blueberry Pudding Cake.  I have to confess that I didn’t do it alone.  In fact, I’m a newbie to pudding cakes.  I was guided by a recipe by Soon Kim and the Test Kitchen Team published in the August issue of the Canadian Living magazine.   Here is the recipe and I hope you’ll enjoy making it as I did.

Blueberry Pudding Cake

3 c.      blueberries                750 ml

1/3 c.  granulated sugar     75 ml  

In greased 8-inch (2L) glass baking dish, toss blueberries with sugar; set aside.

Only had a 9 X 13 (3L) glass pan so 1 ½ times the quantities.  Easier to calculate with the metric measurements.

 

 

Cake Topping

 

¾ c.     granulated sugar     175 ml

2          eggs                           2

1 tsp.   grated lemon rind    5 ml

½ tsp.  vanilla                                    2 ml

In large bowl, beat butter with sugar until light.  Beat in eggs, one at a time.  Beat in lemon rind and vanilla.  I couldn’t find my beater so had to use a whisk hence the batter was not smooth or light. J

 

 

1 ¼ c.  flour                            300 ml

1 ½ tsp. baking powder                  7 ml

½ c.     milk                             125 ml

In separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt.  Add to butter mixture alternately with milk, making 3 additions of flour mixture and 2 of milk.  More or less.  Scrape over blueberries, smoothing top.  Covering the berries was more difficult than I thought.  Set aside.

 

 

¾ c.     water                                     175 ml

¼ c.     lemon juice               50 ml

1/3 c.  granulated sugar     75 ml

In a small saucepan, bring water, lemon juice and sugar to boil; pour over batter.  Not having made a pudding cake before, this looked really odd.  I was sure that I had messed up but had no time to start over. Luckily, it worked out fine. 

 

Bake in centre of 350°F (180°C) oven until bubbly around edges and cake is firm to the touch, 50 to 55 minutes.  Since I was running late, I use the convection bake at 350°F for 45 min and added 5 min for the extra volume.   Let cool slightly before serving.