Blueberry Tea Bread - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    2 tsp. baking powder
    1/2 tsp. salt
    3 c. cake flour (not self-rising)
    1/2 c. light corn oil spread (1 stick)
    1 c. low-fat milk (1%)
    1 1/2 c. sugar
    1 Tbsp. vanilla extract
    1 large egg
    1 1/2 c. blueberries
    1 Tbsp. slivered almonds
    1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
Preparation
    About 3 hours before serving or early in day:
    Preheat oven to 350\u00b0.
    Grease a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray. In large bowl, mix baking powder, salt, 3 cups cake flour and 1 1/2 cups sugar.
    Reserve 1 tablespoon corn oil spread for crumb topping.
    With pastry blender or two knives used scissor-fashion, cut in remaining corn oil spread until mixture resembles fine crumbs.
    Stir in milk, vanilla extract and egg until flour is just moistened.
    Gently stir in blueberries; spoon batter into loaf pan.
    Coarsely chop almonds.
    In small bowl, with fork, mix almonds, cinnamon, 2 tablespoons cake flour, 2 tablespoons sugar and reserved corn oil spread until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
    Sprinkle crumb topping over batter.
    Bake loaf 1 hour and 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool loaf in pan on wire rack 10 minutes; remove from pan and finish cooling on wire rack.
    Makes 12 servings.

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