Marbled blueberry cake

We had a lovely picnic today for mother's group and of course I had to bring along something sweet! I had blueberries at home but instead of making muffins, I tried something a little different and made a cake! It was nommy! I have already had 3 pieces today....

Marbled blueberry cake

Ingredients:

1 Tbsp sugar
1 1/4 cups of blueberries
2 eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
125g unsalted butter, melted
1 1/3 cups self-raising flour, sifted
1/2 cup caster sugar
2 Tbsp brown sugar
icing sugar to dust

Method:

1. Pre-heat oven to 180 C. Lightly grease 20cm cake tin and line with baking paper.
2. Place sugar and half the blueberries in small saucepan on medium heat, stirring for about 2 minutes or until juices start to run. Remove from heat and stir in remaining blueberries and allow to cool.
3. Meanwhile in a bowl beat eggs together. Add vanilla and melted butter and mix well. In another bowl, sift flour and caster sugar. Make a well in the centre and using a spoon, stir in the egg mixture until smooth.
4. Take out 3/4 cup of cake mixture and stir in to blueberries. Place spoonfuls of both mixtures randomly in to the prepared tin and swirl with a knife or skewer to produce marble effect. Do not overmix berries and cake mixture as they will blend.
5. Sprinkle brown sugar over the top and bake for about 45mins or until cake is brown and bounces back when touched. Leave cake in tin to cool before removing and dusting with icing sugar to serve.

Enjoy!!!

Here's a photo of Finn and his little girlfriend Charlotte at the park today! It's amazing to watch them together and how entertaining they find it to see someone who's the same size as them! :) x