Better Buttery Blueberry Buckle Recipe
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Dole’s Frozen Fruit Single-Serve Cups are an easy, healthy way to score frozen fruits for later. I found the blueberries locally in the freezer case an used them for the recipe (below), and they’re terrific! Each cup of fruit has no sugar added and is frozen using a patent-pending technology to minimize texture-loss during defrost. The blueberries I sampled have a perfect, fresh appearance, taste and texture. After using slimy, frozen blueberries that didn’t defrost as I would hope they would, I am sold on this product.
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I have always wanted to make a blueberry buckle, so what better opportunity than when I had Dole Blueberries in my freezer. I simply thawed the fruit and used both cups to make an amazing batch of what I can only describe as a flavor-filled romp through the land of blueberries, cinnamon and streusel.
A buckle is essentially an old-fashioned coffee type cake with a streusel, and I wanted one yesterday to celebrate making final edits to a manuscript I’ve been toiling over for months! The aroma of this dessert made the entire house smell like heaven. The hardest part was getting my husband and daughter to leave the cake overnight so that the flavors could meld together and settle.
This recipe is vegetarian friendly, sugar-free, gluten-free, and weighs in at only 6 net carbsfor a heaping helping of flavor and texture.
| Better Buttery Blueberry Buckle Recipe |
- Cake batter:
- 3/4 cup sugar equivalent substitute
- 1/4 cup melted butter
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup heavy white cream
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup almond flour
- 1/2 cup unflavored protein powder
- 1/2 cup coconut flour
- 2 cups blueberries
- Streusel:
- 1 cup nut meal
- 1/2 cup sugar equivalent substitute
- 1/4 cup melted butter
- Glaze:
- 1 tsp heavy white cream
- 1/4+ cup powdered sugar equivalent substitute
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
- To make the buckle, in a large mixing bowl combine butter and sugar equivalent substitute. Add egg, cream, and water. Next, mix in salt and baking powder. Incorporate almond, coconut and protein powder. Add blueberries and mix them in. Batter will be thick.
- Smooth evenly into a buttered 9X9″ cake pan or casserole dish.
- To make the streusel, combine nut meal, sugar equivalent substitute and butter. Sprinkle over batter. Press lightly.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes or until cake has raised slightly and the top has browned. Let rest overnight.
- Prepare glaze by combining sugar equivalent substitute with heavy white cream until a thick glaze drops from the spoon in a semi-thick drizzle. Let rest overnight in the refrigerator to allow sweetener granules to break down in the liquid, forming a thicker liquid.
- Drizzle glaze over squares of buckle as served.
- Refrigerate or freeze remaining portions.
I use three kinds of flour in the form of powdered almond flour, coconut flour and unflavored whey protein powder because they work together better than on their own.
You can sub flax in place of the protein powder (try 3/4 of the amount).
I use the Ideal/Kroger co-brand of sweetener in the purple bag. It measure cup-for-cup like sugar and gives me the best results.
I bake at a high altitude here in Denver, so what takes me a shorter time to cook might take you slightly longer. Be sure to check your times and check for browning.
Use powdered sweetener for the glaze. Again, I use the Ideal/Kroger co-brand, but you can powder erythritol or xylitol for similar results.
Let this dish rest overnight to allow flavors to meld and the texture to reach perfection.
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Price: $2.49-2.79 for 2 single-serve cups
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Could you just use all almond powder instead of using coconut flour? My husband is severely allergic to coconut and I would love to try this. If not, do you know of another substitute for the coconut flour?