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Vegan Blueberry Buckle. Blueberry Coffee Cake with streusel. Use any seasonal berries of choice! Vegan Soyfree Recipe. Nutfree, Gluten-free option. Jump to Recipe
This Berry Buckle is all things you want in a dessert. A soft vanilla cake batter, seasonal berries, topped with cinnamony streusel.
It comes together quickly and is amazing served warm with a dollop of whipped coconut cream. Berries and batters are made for each other, be it a lemony pound loaf or a cobbler. Try this blueberry buckle with a mix of wild and regular blueberries.
Ingredients you will need for this Vegan Blueberry Buckle
- Wet Ingredients include non dairy milk, applesauce or non dairy yogurt, vinegar, oil, sugar, vanilla extract and almond extract
- Dry ingredients include flour, almond flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and frozen or fresh blueberries
- I us a mix of all purpose and wheat/spelt flours. For gluten-free, see recipe not section.
- Streusel includes flour sugar, salt, vegan butter(or oil), oil and cinnamon
- Nut-free: Omit the almond flour.
How to make Vegan Blueberry Buckle with Step photos
Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl. Add the wet and mix in. Add more flour if needed to make a thick batter. Transfer the batter to a parchment lined baking dish. Top with blueberries.
Lightly fold in the berries on the top batter. Add the streusel and spread evenly. Bake until a toothpick from the center comes out clean.
MORE CAKES
- Cinnamon Swirl Cake
- Eggnog Pound Cake
- Easy Coffee Cake – Cinnamon Streusel Cake GF option
- Peanut Butter Chocolate Marble Cake
- Applesauce spice cake GF option
- Pumpkin Cake with Chocolate Pumpkin Frosting. GF option
Gluten-free
- GF Cashew Butter Chocolate Marble Cake.
- Gluten-free Cinnamon Roll Bread yeast-free.
- GF Carrot Banana Bread – Also grain-free.
- Sweet Potato Crumb Cake. GF
Vegan Blueberry Buckle
Ingredients
Wet:
- 1 cup non dairy milk such as almond, light coconut, oat or soy milk
- 1 tbsp applesauce or non dairy yogurt or more non dairy milk, applesauce or yogurt work best
- 1 tsp vinegar
- 1/3 cup sugar, , 1 tbsp more for sweeter
- 1/4 cup neutral oil, , or use 3 tbsp applesauce to make oil-free
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- a few drops of almond extract, , optional but wonderful
Dry:
- 1.5 cups of flour, , I use 1 cup unbleached all purpose and 1/2 cup wheat flour, or all unbleached all purpose, see note for gluten-free
- 2 tbsp almond flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1.5 cups frozen blueberries, , I use a mix of wild and regular blueberries, do not thaw, or use fresh. Or use mixed seasonal berries.
Streusel:
- 1/2 cup flour, (all purpose)
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1/3 to 1/2 tsp tsp salt
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 2 tbsp vegan butter or use oil
- 1.5 tbsp oil, refined coconut or other neutral like safflower
Instructions
- Line a pan with parchment with parchment hanging on the edges. Preheat the oven to 350 deg F (176 C). In a bowl, mix in the wet ingredients until the sugar is fully combined.
- In another bowl, whisk 1 1/2 cup flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. (Add spices of choice if you like.
- Fold into the wet until just about combined. Add more flour if needed 1 tbsp at a time to make just slightly thick batter. Pour into a parchment lined pan. Add blueberries on top and lightly fold some of the berries with the batter just on the top, not in the entire batter.
- In a bowl, add the dry streusel ingredient and mix well. Add the vegan butter and oil and mix it in with your fingers until well distributed and crumbly. Add a bit more oil if needed for fat crumb mixture. Spread over the cake batter.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 40 to 50 mins (depends on the pan, cake height etc). Cool for 10 mins, then remove from pan. Cool completely before slicing. Serve with whipped coconut cream, ice cream or a simple icing if you wish. Store on the counter for upto 2 days, refrigerated for upto 7 days, freeze (slices) for upto a month
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Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This looks amazing! Could it be baked in a muffin pan or mini muffin pan for easy portioning?
sure – a dozen minis will take 15-20 min
The perfect blueberry cake! Moist cake, delicious crumble, lots of blueberries – just what we were hoping for. I baked it for 32 minutes in an 8″ square glass baking dish; just right. You suggested waiting till it cools to cut it, but we just couldn’t wait = )
so sweet Karen, I couldn’t wait either!
I tried out cake with the above recipe. The cake was very soft and tasty. Thank you.
This is the absolute BEST blueberry recipe I’ve ever made. Flawless and delicious!!
wow! I’m speachless.
I have recently found you, and being a cook and baker, am sooo impressed with every recipe I’ve tried. Out of respect, the first attempts I follow to a T (except monkfruit for sugar) and loved every one! ❤️👍😋
Hi Richa, just made this cake, and as with every recipe of yours, it’s delicious!! I did have a little issue with the streusel: after I added the called for amount of oil (I used all oil because I had no vegan butter) it was quite “damp”. And pretty much stayed that way even after baking. So it didn’t really separate or get “sandy”. (Hope this makes sense!) But I lightly scraped off some and then put the cake back under the broiler for a few minutes to crisp it slightly. Still, a beautiful, light, not too sweet cake so it’s getting 5 great stars from me. Would highly recommend and will make again. Thank you!!
I followed the gluten free version exactly, it tastes good but the cake just crumbled into little crumbs. It does not hold together even a little. Any ideas what happened?
were you using any ingredients that may have been a little stale at all?
Hi, Thank you for the response.
Everything was new except my baking powder and baking soda were already open, but not too old.
Amazing amazing cake! I’m not a huge fan of fruit in my cakes, but this was the perfect balance of cake, fruit, and cinnamon-y streusel! Thank you!!!
This looks lovely. What kind of sugar do you use. I am in the UK and it gets confusing trying to work out which sugar is being used. I am going to have to get some as I only have coconut sugar.
that will work just fine =)
Hi Richa, greetings from Bulgaria! Thank you for your receipts, such an inspiration! I have made this as gluten-free version, as per your instructions. And it turned out the BEST cake i have ever made, so good! My whole family enjoyed it and is asking for more, this actually dint happen for a cake before!
awesome
good afternoon,
it’s my birthday tomorrow and i want to make this but don’t have almond flour 🙁 considering the condition outside i cannot get it, is there anything i can sub for almond flour?
just add 2 tbsp moree flour
When I first looked at the recipe idk what happened I read 2 cups of almond flour, silly me. But you made my bday wishes come true and you reposted me. Thank you it was so delicious and perfect sweetness.
can I use buttermilk instead of yogurt in this recipe? or just milk?
Yes