Last weekend was all about blueberries.   I found an organic blueberry farm not too far away and my little man and I spent a very hot morning picking and eating berries.  It was glorious!

Love this sign...even though I had to read it twice to realize what it said!

Ready to pick some blueberries!

So with all these fresh berries what’s a girl to do but start cooking?  I had been searching for several days for the perfect recipe for my little blue jewels and just happened to stumble across an intriguing recipe for  Blueberry Boy Bait on Cook’sCounty.com.  Just the name alone was enough to make me want to give it a try!  After all who doesn’t need a little boy bait every now and again?

I made a few little tweaks to the recipe including adding some lemon zest to the batter for a fresh pop and changing up the streusel topping.

I won’t lie, this recipe is not exactly what I would call healthy.  In fact if it didn’t already have such a fantastic name I would have called it Blueberry Butter Cake because of the copious amounts of butter involved.  But even a healthy cook likes to mix it up occasionally with delicious cake!  And the blueberries count for something right??

As for the effectiveness of Blueberry Boy Bait – it work as promised on the cutest little boy I know.  He gave the cake two thumbs up and stuck to me like glue asking for “just one more piece, please”.  I finally had to hide the rest on the top of the refrigerator and tell him the dog finished it.

So if you are in the mood for a delicious moist blueberry cake with cinnamon pecan streusel topping or you are in need of some boy bait of your own, give this recipe a try.  I think you will agree it is a tasty treat!

Blueberry Boy Bait

Prep time: 8 minutes – Cook time: 45-50 minutes – Serves: 12

Cake ingredients:

• 2 cups plus 1 teaspoon all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon table salt
• 2 sticks (16 tablespoons) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 1 cup whole milk
• 1/2 teaspoon lemon zest
• 3/4 cup fresh blueberries (You can substitute frozen blueberries, but do not defrost.  Use them frozen so they won’t bleed into the batter as much.)

Streusel ingredients:

• 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1/3 cup pack brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 tablespoon butter, room temperature
• 1/3 cup chopped pecans
• 1/2 cup blueberries

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