i love summer.
it is my favorite time of the year.
i also love fruit.
so i absolutely love summer so i can get fresh fruit...so yummy!
i had a bunch of blueberries in my fridge that needed to be used so i decided to go ahead and make a recipe i had "pinned" earlier this summer.
for father's day this year i made pioneer woman's blueberry coffee cake...it was delicious. unfortunately, i never got any pictures.
lucky for me, this time i did.
blueberry upside down cake:
--recipe found at thibeault's table
1/4 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 cups blueberries (fresh or frozen)
1 tablespoon lemon juice
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1/2 cup butter
3/4 sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
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1 1/3 cup flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon (optional)
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3/4 cup milk
mix melted butter with brown sugar and pour into either an 8x8 or 9x9 square pan. spread evenly. sprinkle with blueberries. drizzle with lemon juice.
in a large mixing bowl, beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. add egg and vanilla. mix until combined.
in another large bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon, if using.
add to butter mixture, alternating with the milk. stir to combine.
drop batter over blueberries. bake at 350 for 35-45 minutes. let cool in pan for ten minutes and turn out onto a plate.
it feels like forever since the last time that i wrote a post. i definitely miss it! i have missed baking, too!
i have wanted to make some type of blueberry lemonade cupcake for a while now. since school is out, it hasn't rain today (yay!) and matt is out golfing, i figured today would be a perfect day to bake! i googled recipes for lemonade cupcakes just to see what was out there. most of the ones are for pink lemonade cupcakes. but i found one for strawberry lemonade and decided to go with that version. the original recipe can be found over here at hil's blog.
i did change a couple things. obviously i used blueberries instead of strawberries. i also added 3 T of thawed lemonade concentrate to my frosting to give it more of a lemonade flavor. i also added some food coloring to get my frosting a funkier bluish/purplish. another thing i tried was adding yellow food coloring to the batter. i only made four cupcakes with the yellow. it ended up being a pretty intense yellow but i kinda like it...definitely looks more lemonade-y than the white cupcakes, for sure.
so white or yellow?!
oh, and the only other thing i would have done had i actually had some, would have been to add blueberry vodka. i think that would be amazing! am i wrong?!
--recipe found at thibeault's table 
