Blueberry Cream Cheese Coffeecake
I’m going to talk to you about something totally for realsies.
I’m in an ongoing war with mornings.
I don’t know what the issue is honestly, because in my mind, I am a morning person. Like, I want more than anything to get up super early every day, immediately take a shower and get dressed, go over my calendar, watch a bit of the news, and be preparing breakfast when my son gets up for school.
I want that so very desperately. But dudeitssohard.
Everything is great the night before, but when that alarm goes off, all my happy dreams go right out the window. And I snooze and snooze and snooze my way to rushing around, pouring cereal, and waving everyone off in my pajamas.
And once my husband and Jon David leave, I have to check emails, or work on a post for later that morning. Then I get hungry, so I eat breakfast and next thing you know, it’s noon and I am not even dressed.
WHY WHY WHY
I seriously pretended not to be home when a relative dropped by one afternoon, because I was wearing a tank top and underwear, no bra, my hair was piled up in a clip or something, and I was dipping Wonder Bread into a big bowl of Chef Boyardee Ravioli while I watched The Real Housewives of Orange County.
Not even kidding.
And the stairs face my front door, so I couldn’t dash upstairs to get presentable without being seen. So I hid in the bathroom tub and I have no idea why. I wasn’t visible from my spot on the couch, but I guess I got super paranoid.
Also, 3 minutes in a pitch black bathroom tub feels more like 3 hours. In case you were wondering. Also, my Ravioli got cold.
But none of that would have been an issue if my mornings went like they should in my mind. Because I would have been dressed, made up, with a spotless house and fully prepared for company. It’s true. That’s how morning people’s lives go.
One time, I made a calendar and told myself that if I got up early every day for a month, I was going to buy myself a prize. But then I gave in and snoozed about 2 weeks in and bought myself a prize anyways.
Prizes are my other weakness, I should have known better than to take on so much at once.
Anyways, if you know any tricks about getting up early, I would love to hear about it. Because I’m getting older now and also I’m about to be one of those people who is responsible and has more than one kid, so I really need to get this figured out.
One thing I AM good about in the mornings is food. Especially coffeecake, because it’s dessert pretending to be a meal, which is one of the best ideas ever.
I clipped this recipe from a Taste of Home magazine over a year ago, and for some reason, didn’t get around to making it until the other day. Huge mistake. This is amazing!!
The cubes of cream cheese make this cake extra special. Give it a try.Blueberry Cream Cheese Coffeecake
INGREDIENTS
- 1/4 cup (4 Tbs) Butter, softened
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 cup plus 2 Tablespoons flour, DIVIDED
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries
- 3 oz cold cream cheese, cut into small cubes
- Topping:
- 4 Tablespoons flour
- 4 Tablespoons sugar
- 2 Tablespoons cold butter
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 375. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar on medium speed until fluffy. Beat in egg. Combine 1 cup of flour, baking powder and salt in a separate bowl. Gradually add to the butter mixture, alternating with the milk, starting and ending with the flour mixture.
2. Toss blueberries with remaining 2 Tbs flour. Fold blueberries and cream cheese blocks into the batter and pour into a greased 8 inch baking pan.
3. Prepare topping: In a small bowl, combine flour and sugar. Cut in butter until crumbly. Sprinkle over batter and bake for about 40 – 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Notes:
I used frozen blueberries and did not thaw them before adding to the batter.
Recipe adapted from an old Taste of Home magazine
Thanks for visiting my blog! I realize you could be doing more important things with your time. Like watching the news or washing socks. I hope you stay awhile. Much more fun than socks, I promise. 
I love the little spots of cream cheese poking out on the bottom. I bet it bursts with flavor and creaminess when you bite into it. Want!
Haha! I loved reading your morning stories! I’ve hid from surprise guests before too. I’m so paranoid someone will hear my foot steps, so I usually freeze in place. I even hold my breath, haha!
In my opinion, you’re totally allowed to hang out on the couch in pjs, eat ravioli & wonder bread all you want because you’re carrying life inside you! Don’t under estimate the power! ;)
Oh, I wish I was a get up and shower and be ready to take the day on person. But I am not. And I once hid behind a door naked with a towel wrapped around my head just after I got out of the shower because someone knocked on our front door. And our door isn’t glass or near the bathroom..sooo.. yeah.
Great cake, btw
I completely need to make this for Mother’s Day brunch!
I had everything I needed to make this right here in the house, and its baking as I type this. Thanks for the inspiration (and for the recipe!). Oh, and I totally understand the morning thing since I suffer from it too
Ha, I am so bad with hitting the snooze. It just feel so good to have those extra few minutes of sleep! This coffeecake looks delish, btw :D
We’ve all, been there, done that. And it’s THEIR fault for not calling me a week ahead so I could vacuum and scrub the toilet and make this yummy coffee cake. Seriously, I starting hidding from my mother-in-law who for some inexplicable idea thought it was fine to ring my bell any time she felt like it. Then she’d call later and say “I know you were at home, your car was in the garage”. Yes, she stuck her eyeballs into my mail-box to check. I’d lie and say I was at my neighbor’s having coffee. And why hadn’t she called BEFOREHAND? So there. Oh. Here’s my tip for getting up at the crack of dawn. Go to SLEEP at 9:00 pm. It works. I do it and get up (sleepily) at 5:00 am. Of course, I’m ancient, haven’t anything better to do and can’t keep my eyes open past 9:00 pm. Think what you have to look forward to in another 30 years!
p.s. What was your prize?
Can you specify on the recipe if it should be salted or unsalted butter. Also you say baking powder in the ingredient list but say baking soda in the instructions. Which one should it be?
I used salted butter. And it’s baking powder…so sorry for the typo in the directions!!
with you on the wanna be a morning person but canNOT do it.
is it weird that your ravioli tub story made me feel better?
(i may or may noy have one or six hiding stories of my own)
also, this coffeecake is happening tomorrow. the morning, maybe not, certainly for lunch :-)
xoxo
Not even kidding… I was JUSTon pinterest looking for a great coffee cake recipe, and was thinking of trying to incorporate the rest of our blueberries into the dish! This just confirms why I love your blog so much!
Plus, you are so not alone on the morning thing. I tell my husband every night that I’m going to get up and go running before our 3 year old wakes up… it almost never happens. And I too stay in pajama’s until too late in the afternoon… I’m so glad I’m not the only one! I can’t tell you how many times friends have dropped by, or family, to find me looking almost homeless…
Haha….that’s too funny! I love how you give yourself prizes. That’s the way to motivate. I need to remember that! ;-) And yes, this looks amazing. I’ve been craving a cream cheese coffee cake for some time now. Every time I pass one in the bakery section of my grocery store, I’m SO tempted to pick it up. But, I don’t because I know I should just make one on my own. This looks like ‘the one’. Mmm!
Ha! Next time, answer the door and say something like “OMG! You just caught me working on my ninja skills, so glad your here,I need a break”. Or “wow, bad timing, I’m so sick, I think it’s the monkey flu”.
Also, no advice as to the morning stuff. My husband gets up at 4:30 everyday to work out. Yeah, I don’t get why either…
Oh how I want some of this, I love the bits of cream cheese running thru it.
I started laughing while reading this and then had to read it to my hubby his response “so wait you wrote this?” because it sounded exactly like my life. I really was hoping for some tips! Being a morning person in my head is my ever constant guilt trip. I feel like once I do it I will become super woman or something :)
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Oh my friggin’ word, you crack me up! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE reading your blog. And congrats on the pregnancy. :)
Coffee cake is a great reason to get out of bed early. I know I’d do it a lot less often if it weren’t for a full time job. Coffee cake and slow mornings are infinitely better than the real world.
I make blueberry cream cheese muffins and love them! I can’t wait to try your cake!
“I seriously pretended not to be home when a relative dropped by one afternoon, because I was wearing a tank top and underwear, no bra, my hair was piled up in a clip or something, and I was dipping Wonder Bread into a big bowl of Chef Boyardee Ravioli while I watched The Real Housewives of Orange County.”
HAHAHAHA. Omg, this is quite possibly the best sentence ever written on any blog, ever. I appreciate your honesty! And I hear you about this whole dessert pretending to be breakfast stuff- RIGHT UP MY ALLEY. Can’t wait to try this recipe. Thanks for sharing :) And again, thanks for the honesty!
I agree, Alyssa! Best sentence. Hands. Down. :) I too appreciate how honest and real she is. It’s hysterical how much she says mirrors my thoughts and actions! Love it!!
I am not a morning person either and I have 3 kids to get up and going. Thanks goodness for no real job or I’d be fired! Love the coffee cake, looks totally yummy.
Three yummies all together, blueberries-check, cream cheese-check, cake-check. LOVE this.
I am a night person, try as I may mornings don’t often turn out the way I’d like. Mine sound like yours :) but I don’t bother trying to get up early anymore. I just would rather stay up until 2am.
I do the same thing, do you have super irritating judgmental people in your life who treat you like the laziest person on Earth because you haven’t been awake since 7am? Just because I sleep later in the day than you does NOT mean I’m getting more sleep than you.
Love blueberries and love cream cheese. I’m sure i’d also love this recipe! :D
This cake looks amazing and … as I too am reading this without having had breakfast at 11.20am it is making me really hungry. Done all of the ‘bad’ things in your post but totally showered and dressed today … only cos I knew the plumber was arriving at 9am though LOL!!
Mornings hate me. Cold ravioli sucks. But this cake…just wow.
Love how the blueberries and cream cheese blend nicely together. Makes for the perfect bite. As for mornings, I wish I cold seep in. I always feel I have to jump out of bed when my 8 yr old gets up @6:15. She doesn’t have to be up she just likes to. How weird is that? Now I’m stuck in this pattern and can’t sleep in ever.
It’s ok sweetie, I get up early enough for all three of us….4am!! Gotta be to work at 6am….so you just keep on a snoozin’. besides you’re preggers…that gives you an all hours pass on the old alarm clock routine….relax and sleep in…as long as Jon David gets to school on time, has lunch money and his hair is combed you’ve done your job!!! Dream on sweetie…..you deserve it!!
I don’t have any problem getting up early, but I’m totally with you on the not getting dressed until after lunch and people ringing the doorbell and I’m still bra-less in my PJ’s w/ hair in a clip. It’s a frightening scene. I do best when i can plan to go to the gym as my son heads off to school. Then I’m pretty much forced to shower before lunchtime. At that point I’m glamorously clad in yoga pants, a sweatshirt and no makeup for the rest of the day. Just about as scary. How am I even married?! In any case, I could go for a slice of this coffee cake this AM :)
I literally throw myself out of bed the second the alarm goes off and immediately turn on the light. I usually stand there for a few minutes blinking myself awake, but it works! :)
I just started reading your blog the other day and I have to tell you…. It makes me laugh so hard! I am a stay at home mom of 2 and I totally understand the “hiding in the bathtub when someone knocks on the door” moments. Thank you for your honesty and humor… much needed! Oh and this coffeecake looks amazing! I am definitely going to give it a shot!
My husband is a get up, get your coffee and get showered and dressed type of morning person. I am not. I normally get showered and dressed after all my housework is done. He always asks…*what if someone comes to the door * and I always say, *I don’t answer it, if it’s important they will come back* I’ve not answered quite a few knocks on my front door.
Never mind the ravioli, this coffeecake looks delicious and the perfect thing to take while one hides out in the bathtub!
Don’t be hatin’ on me :) I’m a morning person, alway have been. I get up by 5 a.m. and shower right away. I’m completely put together, have made hubby’s lunch, cleaned up anything left sitting around the previous night, took out the trash, fed the dog/cats, loaded up the washing machine for the next wash which I do when I get home from work BEFORE I get my two daughters up for school! Some mornings I even dust or run the vacumn through before I leave for work.
HOWEVER – when I get home it takes all I have to make dinner and clean up after.
I’m exhausted by 8 p.m.
Why am I like this? Because I love morning time. The sun rising, the quiet of the house because my daughters are still sleeping, sipping my coffee and watching the morning news, love it all! Day seems longer too when I get up early. My take on “sleeping in” is until 7:00 and I usually can’t make it that long. :)
You have the best of both worlds….if you want to get up early and get going do it because you don’t have to do it the next day!! I’d LOVE to have it that way!!
I desperately want to be a morning person but I am strictly a night owl. One idea for getting up early is to set your alarm a few minutes earlier every day. So if you normally get up at 8 set it for 7:58 and the next day a little earlier 7:56. So eventually you will be waking up half an hour or an hour earlier than you normally would. Although this seems like a really good idea most days I’m bra-less in my pjs long past noon.
I had an extremely difficult time getting up this morning, and I consider myself to be a morning person as well. I am pretty incapable of sleeping once the sun is up and I’m also one of those weird people who doesn’t ever drink coffee. Not once ever.
I love a good coffee cake and yours look perfect! The cream cheese and blueberries make it look so moist and tasty!
I finally have started realizing that I should just embrace my night owl-edness and leave the early birds all of their worm-eating glory. It makes me feel like so much better about my self. :)
I’ve never made coffee cake before this looks like a great recipe to start with!
I’ve always HATED mornings. I can stay up all night with no problem, though. I have found the way to become more of a morning person. Running. I started running about three months ago (I’ve taken breaks…it’s not like I’ve been running for an entire three months.) and I have s MUCH easier time getting out of bed in the morning. I’ve even been known to get up before my MORNING PERSON husband a few times. Running. Drastic measure, I know. I’m not sure it’s worth it.
I’m a morning person through and through! People make fun of me for my routine (what college kid goes to bed at 9pm), but I am what I am! I’ve found that a workout, massive amounts of coffee, and solo dance parties help greatly with morning doldrums. Now, I bet this coffee cake with help too! Looks fab!
You are hilarious!!! Love love love your writing!
I feel a littel awkward asking this since I’ve only been a lurker for the past year on your blog, but… Are you expecting? Or did I just read WAY too much into the following sentence???
Anyways, if you know any tricks about getting up early, I would love to hear about it. Because I’m getting older now and also I’m about to be one of those people who is responsible and has more than one kid, so I really need to get this figured out.
I have been a morning person my whole life, and my roommate is not. However, she started getting up early with me once I introduced her to the best alarm clock ever. It mimics the rising sun so that you wake up naturally and it has nature and bird sounds so it makes it seem like the day is starting without you. It is my lifesaver in the winter when it’s hard for me to get up.
Also, go to bed on time. That will make a huge difference.
I’m linking to the one I got which I love, but there are a ton of different models out there in different price ranges.
http://www.amazon.com/Verilux-Shine-Natural-Wake-up-Light/dp/B003TPSD7K/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1335808722&sr=8-4
Oh honey, enjoy hitting that snooze button while you still can! As soon as that second baby arrives there won’t be much sleep for you!
Okay, so I am NOT a morning person. But I learned this trick years ago when getting up for work at 5 meant getting to work in 17 minutes instead of an HOUR and 17 minutes: Put your alarm clock across the room. It means you actually have to get OUT of bed to turn it off, and are much less likely to hit snooze, because c’mon, at that point you’re half way to the bathroom anyway.
If your alarm is on your phone, put your phone on the other side of the room. Two birds with one stone there – you won’t stay up all night playing Angry Birds either.
And yeah, I love the idea of this coffeecake with *any* other berry. Blueberries are from the devil! I still love you though. :)
he he he, you crack me up…I was thinking maybe if you and I promised ourselves we could have two pieces of this extra yummy BREAKFAST FOOD that we could also become morning people? Huh, whadda ya think, would it work?
I am so not a morning person. My kid is an early riser and has forced me to get up early for 6 years, but that still doesn’t make me a morning person. As I sit here at 2:00 still not showered.
Coffee cake would make me get up a little early though! This looks great with the blueberries in it!
I just pulled this out of the oven and it is EXCELLENT!!!
I’m definitely keeping this recipe and will become a regular!!
Thanks so much!
This looks ridiculously awesome! Yum!
It’s like you and I are one person! I’m the same way about mornings. I want this coffeecake so bad right now. If I come over, please don’t hide- we could just be two pregnant ladies watching coffeecake out of the baking dish with our hands :)
Not to be a terrible enabler or anything, but you get a lot more sympathy for wearing your pajamas in your messy house at 2:00 in the afternoon if you have a baby.
I am a horrible snoozer. Have never ever EVER gotten the hang of being a morning person, and have lived with morning people my whole life, so I don’t know how it has never rubbed off. I have cultivated a “I’ll make something fabulous for breakfast when I get up, but if you starve to death before then, it’s only because you’re too lazy to open a cupboard and pour yourself some cereal, so it’s not my fault” household. It works for me.
Never ever do I look at recipes like this cuz I know I’ll make it then eat it….all by self. And never share!! But it was just screaming my name on pinterest and what an adorable post.
I sympathize with this to a T! I have 4 kids and it’s just so hard to move in the morning. And I truly strive to be that perfect morning person mom. Thanks for that. Your not alone chick.
Blueberries are an amazing breakfast fruit!
I really like your writing style! Very enjoyable. The recipe looks great, too!
i put my alarm clock on the other side of the room where i have to gut up turnit off, and i put it on the LOUDEST and most ANNOYING setting possible! :)
My two favorite ingredients of all time..blueberry and cream cheese! This has to taste amazing! Can’t wait to try over the weekend! Thanks a bunch!!
I am making this for breakfast tomorrooooooow! can’t wait! My trick to getting up earlier has been to follow a schedule that works around fun things. Here it is: Wake up at 8:45-9:00. Eat something particularly delicious. Watch Who Wants to be a Millionaire at 10:00. Go running between 10:30-11:00. Come back, shower, clean dishes, do laundry, think about lunch, then make lunch.
I had to download an alarm clock app to my phone which requires me to correctly solve math problems before I can snooze or turn off the alarm. Doesn’t get me jumping into the shower right away, but it definitely gets me a little closer!
Can you make this coffee cake ahead of time and refrigerate overnight?
I don’t need to ready any of the comments to know that you and I aren’t the only ones who lounge around in pjs, or whatever, till half the day is over. Enjoy it! And I will enjoy the yummy-looking Blueberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake. You have the best recipes–thanks for sharing them.
I’m drooling with this coffee cake. I’m saving this recipe and hope to make it for Mother’s Day. It looks perfect!
just an update- made the coffee cake, it’s super delicious and I ate about half of it on my own.
You mean there is something wrong with sleeping in the morning and staying in your jammies until later in the day? I am right there with you…mornings are from the devil!!! And to the people who say go to bed earlier…it doesn’t work. I still sleep in as late as humanly possible!!! I have decided to just embrace my night owl and not worry about the fact that I don’t do anything worthwhile until noon when I would eat a piece of this yummy cake:-)
I have your same dream. I so want to be a morning person and have my act together before everyone else wakes up.
Now, this is a dessert that I can have for breakfast because it is called coffee cake. And, even though I do not drink coffee, I can eat it while I drink my tea Perfect!
This looks so good! I’m not a morning person either, but I do love my coffee to get me going!
Made it. Ate it. AWESOME! Husband and two sons devoured most of it, thank goodness. Too tempting to leave laying around. Thanks for the great recipe!
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Thanks for the recipe & the giggle. I ran across your page for the first time this morning & laughed loudly wondering who got in my head & wrote this down? LOL! I made this recipe into muffins & baked for 30 mins. I also added some cinnamon…These are SOOOO stupid-good!!! :). This is a keeper & will definitely make again. & thanks to Rebecca for suggesting the Verilux alarm clock! Who knew?
I made this the other day because I love coffee cake, and blueberries and cream cheese. Sounded perfect. It was very good I’d give it 4 out of 5 stars. There was just something lacking in flavor that I can’t put my finger on. I used frozen blueberries and that seemed to workout just fine. Don’t know if I’ll make this again. Thanks for posting it though, I enjoyed it.
I used to be a morning person – up every morning at 5am to work out. And then I had kids. They are my alarm clock now. But then again, I guess I’m forced into being a morning person since my son insists on getting up at 6am every day. EVERY day. (Maybe I should make some of this for breakfast, and then I won’ t feel so bad about being up at 6….)
Your coffee cake looks amazing! I have tried to be a morning person, but just cannot do it! One summer when I was in college I had a job that started at 4am and I wonder how the heck I ever did that!?
Made this, but subbed rhubarb for the blueberries and added a little vanilla extract. It is super delicious! I’m going to make it again and double the rhubarb to 2 cups. Thanks for the recipe!
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This is OUT OF THIS WORLD!!! My 10 year old who does not usually eat cakes or sweets ate 3 pieces the first time I made it and has requested this cake for his next (and every) birthday for the rest of his life! It is light and rich at the same time and the little bits of cream cheese burst in your mouth and add a nice tangy balance to the sweetness of the topping and the berries. We LOVE this cake and I am making one today for family who is in from out of town, thanks for sharing this awesome recipe!!
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Is this recipe just as good to use to make muffins? Looks yummy, thanks!