Make this delicious cake for your favorite Tolkien fans! It’s called the “Second Breakfast Cake,” however, it can be eaten at any time of day! Trust me, this cake will make you wish you were a hobbit. How can you not want to be a hobbit? You can eat upwards of 7 times a day, and you’re tiny and adorable. I’m getting ahead of myself.
INGREDIENTS:
½ cup of flour
½ teaspoon of baking soda
1/8 teaspoon of salt
6 tablespoons of unsalted butter
1/3 cup of brown sugar
1 large egg
½ cup of buttermilk
1 cup of blackberries
Note: all of these ingredients can be bought at Trader Joe’s.
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, Fahrenheit
Coat an 8-inch pan with butter or a non-stick spray
Whisk together flour, baking soda and salt.
Beat butter with flat paddle until it’s creamy, add the sugar and then beat again until it’s light and fluffy.
Beat in the egg, and then add the flour mixture in two sets, alternating with adding buttermilk to the mix.
Scrape batter evenly into the pan, and then scatter the blackberries evenly on the top (they will sink into the batter as its baking)
Bake for 15-25 minutes, or until you stick a knife in and it comes out clean, and then set to cool on a cooling rack.
Upon finishing the cooling process, enjoy the cake!