Blueberry Crumble Loaf - the hummingbird bakery

Sometimes you just need to bake at 11pm.

I wanted to make every cake in this book but I went for the Blueberry Crumble Loaf.

Ingredients
(One 8.5 x 17.5cm/3.5 x 7in loaf tin with 7.5cm/3in sides)

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 170 C (325 F), Gas mark 3, then grease the loaf tin with butter and dust with flour. (It doesn't have to be a loaf tin - I used a normal round cake tin)
2. Crumble topping- In a bowl, rub flour and butter with your fingers until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar, cinnamon and chopped pecans, and set aside.
3. Sponge- Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Break the eggs in one at a time, mixing well.
4. Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt and ground cinnamon, then add in three stages to the creamed butter and eggs, pouring in the milk after the second batch has been added.
5. Continue mixing until the batter is smooth and even, then add the blueberries and chopped pecans, stirring them into the batter and making sure they are evenly distributed. Pour the batter into the prepared tin and sprinkle the crumble mix over the top.
6. Bake in the oven for 50-60 minutes or until the sponge feels firm (and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean with no cake batter on it). Allow it to cool down before turning it out of the tine on to a wire rack to cool fully, then serve! 

Now, I didn't have my mixer with me as I haven't got room for it in my new house, so I had to use a bit of elbow grease! It turned out just as light- just took a little longer!

The pink whisk is from Waitrose, and the bowl is from Laura Ashley 

My little helper, ready to catch any falling cake mix ;)

With added crumble on top, ready to go in the oven.

Incredibly cute oven mit - Lesley Gerry

The finished product! I was hoping it would have gone nice and brown on top but I didn't want to leave it in any longer..

I forgot to take some pictures of it out the tin as it was eaten pretty quickly! It was very yummy though.. Here is the picture from the book instead :P

Sophie x