Serious Yumminess

Thought you'd enjoy some pictures of the Blackberry Bounty Cake I made from the fresh wild blackberries we picked from our property.

Wish you could smell this cake! Can't you just taste the yumminess?

A slice of heaven.

Here's the recipe: (from Global Cookbook)

Ingredients:

1/2 C butter, softened

1 C flour

1 C plus 1 Tbs. sugar

1 tsp baking powder

2 Large eggs

1 C to 11/2 C fresh blackberries

Powdered sugar

Directions:

1. Grease and flour a 9" spring-form pan. In a bowl, combine sugar and butter beating with mixer for 3 minutes. Add flour, baking powder, and eggs. Stir to combine, then beat on high until batter is stiff and well blended. Scrape batter into cake pan and spread top smooth.

2. Scatter berries evenly over batter. I added the following as a topping: 1/2 C sugar, 1/2 tsp. cinnamon, 1/3 C flour, and 1/4 C soft butter, mixed together to resemble crumbs. (You can skip the extra calories if you want and just add a Tbs. of sugar sprinkled over the berries like the original recipe called for.)

3. Bake on the center rack of a 350 degree oven just until the cake begins to pull away from the pan, about 55 to 60 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes and remove outer spring-form. When cool, dust with confectioners sugar.

4. Note: You may use any juicy berry except strawberries, or cover surface of batter with a layer of fruit slices - plum, apricot, nectarine, peach, apple, or pear.

Here's to Looking Up! This recipe will definitely bring a smile to your face.