BLUEBERRY CHEESE COFFEE CAKE BY NOR

Blueberry Cheese Coffee Cake By Nor image

I have my own blueberry bread recipe. I decided to switch it up a bit. I tweaked the recipe, and added a different crumble topping too. It came out beautiful. The coffee cake is truely delicious! Enjoy!

Provided by Nor Mac @Adashofloverecipepage

Categories Cakes

Number Of Ingredients 23

Ingredients

3/4 cup(s) sugar
4 tablespoon(s) softened butter
1/2 cup(s) plus 2 tb milk skim whiole or other
1 - egg
2 cup(s) all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon(s) salt
2 teaspoon(s) baking powder
1 teaspoon(s) cinnamon
1 teaspoon(s) vanilla extract
1 teaspoon(s) orange zest
2 cup(s) blueberries fresh or frozen
1/2 cup(s) chopped walnuts
CHEESE CAKE CENTER
8 ounce(s) softened cream cheese
1 - egg
1/4 cup(s) sugar
1 teaspoon(s) vanilla
1 teaspoon(s) fresh orange juice
1/2 teaspoon(s) orange zest
CRUMB TOPPING
1/2 cup(s) granulated sugar
1/2 cup(s) flour
5 tablespoon(s) softened butter

Steps:

Preheat oven to 350°. Grease and flour a tube pan set aside.
In a large bowl. Beat the sugar and butter together.
Add the milk to the butter mixture. Beat well. Add in the egg, and vanilla. Continue to beat until well until Incorporated.
Into another bowl. Sift the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt together .
Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture. Mix well. Do not over to beat.
With a spoon fold in the blueberries walnuts and or zest. Mix well. Set aside.
Make the cheese filling. Beat all of the ingredients together until fluffy. Set aside.
Place half of the blueberry batter by spoonfuls evenly on the bottom of the tube pan . Spread with spoon evenly .
Top the bottom batter with the cheese filling. Drop by spoonfuls around the center of the batter evenly. Smooth filling with spoon.
Drop spoonfuls of remaining batter on top of the cheese filling. Gently even out the batter the best you can. It's not that important. (It will be covered with crumb mixture.)
Make crumb topping. Mix all ingredients together with your hands squeezing to form a dough like ball. Crumble the ball so that there are large crumbs.
Crumble over the top of the coffee cake batter.
Place in 350° oven. Bake for approximately one hour or until no crumbs show on a toothpick when tested.
Cool for about 10 minutes. Run a knife around the center of the cone., and outside of cake. Lift center cone and pull cake with cone out of pan. Continue to cool.
When the cake is cool. Gently loosien cake from bottom and inside circle with a knife. Invert onto a platter. Turn right side up nd serve .