Blueberries and chocolate

[redsie05]

Hi everybody! I need to bring something sweet for a supper tomorrow night. Don't know why, but I have a craving for a chocolate and blueberry cake. Does anything like that exists?

Thanks!

[newcook]

I found this recipe but I have never tried it:

http://recipes.chef2chef.net/recipe-...2/074614.SHTML

Blueberry Chocolate Cake
Yield: 16 Servings

Ingredients

150 grams butter (room temp.)
175 grams brown sugar
1/2 lemon; grated rind of
1 ts vanilla
2 lg eggs
225 grams flour
2 ts baking powder
2 tb cocoa
1 ts cinnamon
1 pn salt (up to)
200 grams blueberries
100 mls milk; about

Instructions

From Wanganui Chronicle, March 15, 1994

Preheat oven to 180 C. Grease and base-line a large loaf tin (about 22cm
by 13cm and7cm deep) with greased paper.

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the rind and
vanilla, then the eggs one by one.

Sift together the dry ingredients. Stir into creamed mixture with the
blueberries. Finally stir in milk to make a soft batter. Spread into
prepared pan. Bake at 180 C for 50-55 mins. Cool in pan for 5 mins.then
turn on to a rack to cool.

YNNUF@YETTI.AMIGANS.GEN.NZ

(DOREEN RANDAL)

REC.FOOD.RECIPES

From rec.food.cooking archives. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.

[newcook]

There is also this one with white chocolate, never tried:

http://homecooking.about.com/od/dess.../r/bldes58.htm

White Chocolate Blueberry Buckle Cake Recipe
From Peggy Trowbridge,
Your Guide to Home Cooking.
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This version of blueberry buckle coffee cake is enriched with sour cream and white chocolate chips. It's a coffee cake loaded with fresh blueberries that is good enough for the finest company.
INGREDIENTS:
Cake:
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, at room temperature
1/2 cup white granulated sugar
1/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 extra-large egg
1 cup sour cream
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 pint (about 2 cups) fresh blueberries
1/2 cup white chocolate chips
.
Topping:
1/4 cup white granulated sugar
1/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
1/3 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter, cut into small dice
PREPARATION:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line a 9 x 13-inch baking pan with non-stick foil.

For the cake:
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar together until fluffy.

Add vanilla, egg, and sour cream, beating until smooth.

In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. Toss the blueberries in the flour mixture to coat, then remove blueberries with a slotted spoon to a separate bowl. (The flour will help keep the blueberries from sinking and turning the batter gray.)

Add flour mixture to wet ingredients, half at a time, beating until smooth.

Fold in reserved blueberries and white chocolate chips. Pour into prepared pan and smooth evenly. (Batter will be stiff.)

For the topping:
Whisk together white sugar, brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon until combined. Add butter and use your fingers to mix until coarse crumbs are formed. Sprinkle over batter. Bake 30 to 35 minutes until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Let cake cool to room temperature before cutting to serve.

Yield: 24 to 36 servings, depending on cut size

White Chocolate Blueberry Buckle Recipe Photo © 2006 Peggy Trowbridge, licensed to About.com, Inc.

[bobmark226]

Chocolate and blueberries aren't exactly a natural combination, possibly because the chocolate would overwhelm the fruit. Mostly it's combined with white chocolate, like in the recipe above, or in the cake posted there's just two Tbsps. of cocoa, which is pretty light. Probably you need to supress your craving or snack on some chocolate coated dried blueberries until it passes.

You might give some thought to the much-loved CL Blueberry Pound Cake.

Bob

[erinlovesmarc]

Blueberries and chocolate is a great combination! In Montreal, chocolate coated blueberries are quite popular! It's easy to make too...just melt some chocolate and drop in some blueberries to coat, remove with a slotted spoon and let cool on wax paper and voila!....keep refridgerated until serving!

[bobmark226]

Blueberries and chocolate is a great combination! In Montreal, chocolate coated blueberries are quite popular! It's easy to make too...just melt some chocolate and drop in some blueberries to coat, remove with a slotted spoon and let cool on wax paper and voila!....keep refridgerated until serving!

I think she said "cake." Do you have anything to offer along those lines? Try doing a search, as the others here apparently did, and note how you come up with virtually nothing.

Bob

[redsie05]

Thanks for your replies! I will bake the CL Blueberry Poundcake - which was my second choice... after chocolate and blueberries!! I might use your idea erinlovesmarc - I've had blueberries dunked in chocolate before and Mmmmm! they were good! I might decorate the cake with that!!

[foodfiend]

In Montreal, chocolate coated blueberries are quite popular!

Didn't know that. It's been ages since I've been in Montreal. The only place you can get them in Toronto is at Starbucks or a specialty store. They're not very popular.

[Canice]

Now that your recipe's taken care of, thought I'd let you know that the other day I picked up a Dagoba chocolate bar with lavender and blueberries. Wasn't crazy about the idea of chocolate and blueberries together, but the lavender was "speaking" to me (right there in the checkout line - what a coinkydink ). Maybe one of those would cure your craving.

[badunnin]

I think she said "cake." Do you have anything to offer along those lines? Try doing a search, as the others here apparently did, and note how you come up with virtually nothing.

Bob

And gee Bob, maybe she was responding to your comment that "Chocolate and blueberries aren't exactly a natural combination, possibly because the chocolate would overwhelm the fruit." Huh.

[bobmark226]

And gee Bob, maybe she was responding to your comment that "Chocolate and blueberries aren't exactly a natural combination, possibly because the chocolate would overwhelm the fruit." Huh.

Bored today, eh, Bethany?

Yeah, and I mentioned chocolate covered blueberries in my post too. A blueberry coated in chocolate is not blueberries in a large body of chocolate like a cake; I guess I have to spell it out for the geniuses, but I think most understood my point. Maybe you should try that search for blueberries and chocolate so you can understand?

Bob

[erinlovesmarc]

I think she said "cake." Do you have anything to offer along those lines? Try doing a search, as the others here apparently did, and note how you come up with virtually nothing.

Bob

Who p!ssed in your cornflakes this morning! I was just trying to help...sheesh!

[badunnin]

Bored today, eh, Bethany?

Yeah, and I mentioned chocolate covered blueberries in my post too. A blueberry coated in chocolate is not blueberries in a large body of chocolate like a cake; I guess I have to spell it out for the geniuses, but I think most understood my point. Maybe you should try that search for blueberries and chocolate so you can understand?

Bob

I'm sorry Bob. Threads on this board never get hijacked or go off on tangents.

[bobmark226]

I'm sorry Bob.

Apology accepted. Now go read the hockey news and chill.