Description
Easy and beautiful cake to make with ingredients you have on hand. Great to take to a party or picnic. Use a cake plate that is wider than the cake; the berries and juice run down the sides, but it is gorgeous when done!
Ingredients
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 cups fresh blackberries
- ¾ cup white sugar
- 1 cup white sugar
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Melt brown sugar and 2 tablespoons butter together in a saucepan over medium heat. Add blackberries to brown sugar mixture; cook and stir until mixture bubbles
- 1 to 3 minutes. Stir 3/4 cup white sugar into berries
- crush berries slightly with a fork
- and continue cooking until berries are hot and slightly broken-down
- about 5 minutes more; remove from heat and pour into a 9-inch cake pan.
- Beat 1 cup white sugar and 1/2 cup butter together in a bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy; beat in eggs.
- Whisk flour
- baking powder
- and salt together in a bowl. Alternately stir flour and milk into butter mixture
- beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Mix vanilla into batter.
- Pour batter over blackberry mixture in the 9-inch cake pan.
- Bake cake in the preheated oven until cooked through
- 35 to 40 minutes. Let cake cool in the pan until warm
- but not completely cooled
- about 30 minutes. Run a knife along the inside edge of the pan to separate cake from the sides
- place a cake plate over the top of the pan
- and flip the pan. Lift the pan slowly to release the cake from the pan.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 45 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins
Servings: 10