Berry Vanilla Breakfast Cake

Adria82's Note:

My friend emailed this recipe to me as a quick, easy, no eggs/no milk dessert. It doesn't have to be for breakfast at all. The original recipe called for Cherry filling, but I prefer to use Blackberry filling. I changed the name to "Berry" because you could use any you wish. Enjoy!

• Total Time: 1 hrs 15 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Servings: 12

• 2 ½ cups flour
• 1 ½ cups sugar
• ½ cup margarine , plus
• 1 teaspoon margarine , softened
• 1 cup water
• 3 tablespoons water
• 3 tablespoons oil
• 2 teaspoons baking powder , mixed together
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 (21 ounce) can blackberry pie filling (or any flavor)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F Grease a 9 X 13-inch pan baking dish/pan. Set aside.
2. In large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, and 1/2 C margarine with an electric mixer. Set aside 1 cup of the mixture.
3. To the large bowl, add the 1 C of water and the water/oil/baking powder mixture and the vanilla extract. Beat well.
4. Pour mixture into the prepared pan.
5. Drop pie filling by spoonfuls over the top of the batter.
6. Cut 1 T margarine into the reserved cup of flour mixture until it resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle on top of pie filling.
7. Bake 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

Reviews

[diner524]

Delicious breakfast treat!!! Would be wonderful to serve a group for brunch. I scaled the recipe to 1/2 of the amounts, as it was just the 3 of us. Thanks so much for sharing the recipe. Made for Pick A Chef Event.

[jusbcuzz]

Yummy. Instead of using the canned pie filling, I used fresh or frozen berries and cooked them down adding a tiny bit of sugar. First time I made it three of us finished it off before we knew what was happening.

[SrtaMaestra]

Super breakfast or dessert cake! I halved the recipe to fit an 8 by 8 glass pan. I used homemade blueberry pie filling. I also used 1/2 whole wheat flour, and less sugar overall, some of which was splenda. I used butter instead of margarine. We served this with homemade whipped cream, and both of my daughters have requested that I make this for their upcoming turns to take a treat to school. Made for Fall 08 PAC. thanks for posting.