Blueberry Boy Bait

Name: Blueberry Boy Bait
Yield: makes 8 servings
Ingredients: 2 cups Basic Gluten-Free Flour Mix (page 19); 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum; 1 tablespoon double-acting baking powder; 1 teaspoon salt; 3/4 cup dairy-free, soy-free vegetable shortening; 3/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar; 1/2 cup granulated sugar; 4 1/2 teaspoons Ener-G egg replacer mixed with 6 tablespoons rice milk; 3/4 cup rice milk; 1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries tossed with 1 tablespoon Basic Gluten-Free Flour Mix (page 19); 1/4 cup granulated sugar mixed with 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

December 9, 2011

This moist, buttery coffee cake with its crisp, cinnamon-sugar topping is based on an old fashioned recipe from the 1950s, called Blueberry Boy Bait, a coffee cake named for the effect it had on teenage boys. My boys aren’t teens yet, but this bait works for them. They’ll gobble it up in one day—with not a crumb left over.

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