This delicious buttermilk blueberry breakfast cake is like having the perfect blueberry buttermilk pancakes in cake form! Who doesn’t want cake for breakfast? With sweet, fresh blueberries nestled in a tender cake, this delightful dish is exactly what I crave to start my day.
Last year, I tested recipe after recipe in search of the best and most delicious blueberry muffin recipe. The kids were incredible, tasting, testing, sampling, devouring, and analyzing every single muffin. At the end of our quest, one little one said, “Why don’t you just make a blueberry breakfast cake? That way, you won’t have to spend so much time filling individual muffins.”
Truth.
And there you have it—our delicious Buttermilk Blueberry Pancake Cake was born! It captures all the yumminess of blueberry pancakes in a delightful cake form!
It all starts with rubbing sugar and lemon zest between your fingers, which blooms and enhances the lemon oils, making the flavor really pop in the cake.
Next, you’ll cream butter and sugar together, giving the cake that rich buttery flavor and fluffy texture. However, there’s a catch: while butter is delicious, it can dry out a cake. That’s why we also add oil to keep it moist, along with buttermilk to elevate it to the ultimate level of fluffiness, tanginess, and moisture.
When it comes to incorporating the blueberries, remember to fold them in gently instead of stirring—this is key to maintaining their integrity!
Ingredients for Buttermilk Blueberry Pancake Cake
This recipe has a bunch of the standard cake ingredients plus some key ingredients (that I just mentioned) to make this cake moist and fluffy. Here is your shopping list:
- Butter
- Vegetable Oil
- Sugar
- Eggs
- Lemon Zest
- Vanilla Extract
- Almond Extract
- Flour
- Baking Powder
- Salt
- Buttermilk (If you don’t have buttermilk on hand you can make a buttermilk substitute with 1 cup of milk with 1 tablespoon of lemon juice or white vinegar)
- Blueberries
The measurements for each ingredient can be found in the recipe card at the end of the post.
How to Make Buttermilk Blueberry Pancake Cake
I love a fun breakfast that is super easy to make, like our tasty buttermilk pancakes! This breakfast cake comes together like a dessert cake and everyone is going to feel like they are eating dessert for breakfast! Here are the basic steps:
- Preheat the oven and prepare your baking dish.
- Add the sugar (minus 2 tablespoons) to a bowl and add the lemon zest. Rub the sugar and zest together with your fingers. This enhances the lemon flavor.
- Whisk the butter and sugar in a standing mixer until it is fluffy. Add the oil and mix