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Published: May 5, 2020 · Modified: Jan 29, 2024 by Pam

Blueberry Crumb Cake with Cream Cheese

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This Blueberry Crumb Cake with Cream Cheese will become your go-to recipe for breakfast, brunch or dessert. Simple ingredients mean you can make it anytime you like.

piece of blueberry crumb cake on plate
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  • Why we love this crumb cake:
  • Tips for making a perfect blueberry crumb cake every time
  • Suggested toppings:
  • 📖 Recipe
  • A note about the blueberry crumb cake
  • More recipes you will love:

Why we love this crumb cake:

  • Like Brioche French Toast Casserole, it makes a great use of fresh blueberries, available year round these days
  • It is made with pure and simple ingredients, most of which, if not all, you will already have on hand
  • This Blueberry Crumb Cake is extremely versatile, being perfect for breakfast, brunch, dessert or snacking
  • It has blueberries and cream cheese!
bluerries in bowl

Tips for making a perfect blueberry crumb cake every time

  1. Tossing the blueberries in a small amount of flour ensures that they don't sink.
  2. Room temperature cream cheese always blends more easily with other ingredients.
  3. Cold butter cut into smaller pieces makes the crumb topping easiest to blend. You can also freeze the butter and grate it for fun shortcut!
  4. If you don't have buttermilk on hand use the substitute formula recommended in our 3 Ingredient Buttermilk Biscuit post. It's our top recipe!
blueberry crumb cake cut into squares

Suggested toppings:

First of all, this blueberry crumb cake is absolutely delicious just as it is with no topping. We did include chopped pecans (optional, of course) in the crumb topping because we love pecans.

Browse around Biscuits and Burlap and you'll see what we mean - Pecan Pie, Apple Pecan Cheesecake, and Spicy but Sweet Pecans are just a few of the favorites.

A great big old dollop of homemade whipped cream is a fabulous topping of course. And, if you want to make it totally decadent, a scoop of vanilla ice cream would do the trick.

blueberry crumb cake and ice cream

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📖 Recipe

one slice of blueberry crumb cake.

Blueberry Crumb Cake with Cream Cheese

Pam
A versatile crumb cake made with fresh blueberries is outstanding for breakfast, brunch, dessert or snacking.
4.93 from 14 votes
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Servings 9 people

Ingredients
  

For the Cake

  • ¾ cup sugar
  • ¼ cup butter room temperature
  • 1 egg slightly beaten
  • 1½ cups all purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ cup buttermilk
  • 2 teaspoons all purpose flour for tossing blueberries
  • 1½ cups fresh blueberries

For the Cream Cheese Filling

  • 8 ounces cream cheese room temperature
  • ⅓ cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

For the Crumb Topping

  • ¼ cup butter cold, cut into small pieces or frozen and then grated
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • ⅓ cup all purpose flour
  • ½ cup chopped pecans optional

Instructions
 

For the Cake:

  • Cream butter and sugar together in medium sized bowl. Add egg and mix well.
  • Blend 1½ cups flour, baking powder and salt in separate bowl.
  • Toss blueberries in 2 teaspoons of flour in small bowl.
  • Alternate adding and blending the flour mixture with the buttermilk into the egg mixture until well blended.
  • Gently fold in blueberries and pecans, if desired.

For the Cream Cheese Filling

  • Blend all ingredients together until smooth.

For the Topping

  • Blend sugars and flour together. Cut butter in with a pastry blender or toss with butter that has been frozen and then grated.

Assemble and Bake

  • Spread cake batter in a 9 x 9 inch square baking pan which has been greased and floured, or sprayed with baking spray like Bakers Joy.
  • Spread cream cheese filling mixture on top.
  • Sprinkle, or crumble crumb topping over cream cheese mixture.
  • Bake 40-50 minutes in a 350 degree (F) oven. May be served warm, room temperature or cold.

Notes

Butter may be cut into dry ingredients with a pastry blender or frozen for at least 1 hour and then grated for easier blending.
 
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!

A note about the blueberry crumb cake

The topping makes a moist, crusty top that we think you will love as opposed to dry crumbly topping on some "crumb" cakes.

one slice of cake on plate with another behind

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Comments

  1. Jill says

    May 05, 2020 at 11:00 am

    5 stars
    This cake looks amazingly moist and delicious. I'll have to try it soon.

    Reply
    • Pam says

      May 05, 2020 at 11:10 am

      Thanks, Jill! You're going to love it!

      Reply
  2. kim says

    May 05, 2020 at 11:10 am

    5 stars
    I loved this recipe! It was super delicious and so easy! Will definitely make again!

    Reply
    • Pam says

      May 07, 2020 at 4:13 pm

      Thanks so much, Kim!

      Reply
  3. Cindy says

    May 05, 2020 at 11:18 am

    5 stars
    Our family has been taken advantage of the extra time during quarantine. We have been searching recipes to make and the kids help select and make them. Today we made your recipe! It was a hit! We LOVE lazy brunches on the weekend but with quarantine, each day is kinda like a lazy saturday :). So we enjoyed this crumb cake today for brunch!

    Reply
    • Pam says

      May 05, 2020 at 11:23 am

      That's so awesome to hear. Thank you for letting us know Cindy!

      Reply
  4. Beth says

    May 05, 2020 at 12:01 pm

    5 stars
    This cake is so moist and fluffy! This is going on my regular rotation! Thanks!

    Reply
    • Pam says

      May 05, 2020 at 12:28 pm

      So happy you love it, Beth! Thank you.

      Reply
  5. Denay DeGuzman says

    May 05, 2020 at 12:28 pm

    5 stars
    I love blueberry crumb cake! This recipe is just like the one grandma used to make. This recipe's a keeper!

    Reply
    • Pam says

      May 05, 2020 at 1:24 pm

      Thanks, Denay!

      Reply
  6. Andrea says

    May 13, 2020 at 9:50 am

    5 stars
    This is perfect! Blueberry season is my favorite, and this cake is calling my name. I love the addition of cream cheese.

    Reply
    • Pam says

      May 13, 2020 at 9:24 pm

      Hope you enjoy! It's an undulgence, for sure.

      Reply
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