By Cynthia Quell-Puches
What’s a Buckle? A Buckle is cake, topped with fruit and streusel.
What’s a Streusel? When fat, flour and sugar come together into a crumble, that is Streusel! It is used as a topping, added before baking.
A Blueberry Buckle is this year’s Association of CT Fairs, Junior* Baking Contest at the Cannon Grange’s Agricultural Fair.
A Buckle consists of fruit and cake baked together with streusel topping. As it bakes the fruit and cake “buckle” to resemble a coffee cake.
You may have heard of Blueberry Betty’s, Blueberry Crumble or even a Blueberry Crisp. They all have characteristics different from a Buckle.
Betty’s: Streusel is layered between the fruit.
Crisps: Streusel usually contains oats.
Crumbles: Streusel does not contain oats.
The Association of Connecticut Fairs, Inc Junior Baking Contest 2023
Blueberry Buckle
For the cake:
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons lemon zest
- 1 1/2 cups plus 1 tablespoon King Arthur Baking All-Purpose flour, divided
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 1/2 cups fresh blueberries
For the topping:
- 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon butter
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 1/3 cup King Arthur Baking All-Purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon