Individual Blueberry Cakes – 5 ingredients, 30 minutes

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Are you ready for your life to change?

It can happen in 30 short minutes, if you want it to…. and believe me, you do.

It will happen in the form of a flaky sugar-crisp top concealing a fluffy, jammy goldmine of blueberries and cake.

All that with only 5 ingredients…

Okay, well 5 ingredients plus water… and optional cinnamon and lemon juice, but I just count those as life essentials, not necessarily ingredients (especially the cinnamon).

Ummm, so why are you still reading this and not making these right now?

Individual Blueberry Cakes- 5 ingredients, 30 minutes

makes enough for 4-5 medium ramekins

2 cups (10 oz / 280g) blueberries
1/3 cup + 3 tbsp (6 oz + 1.5 oz / 65g + 45g ) sugar
1 egg
1/3 cup (80 ml) whipping cream
2/3 cup (3 oz / 85g) self-raising flour*

optional:
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 tbsp lemon juice

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
Put the blueberries in a bowl, with 1/2 cup (125 ml) of water, the 1/3 cup (6 oz / 65g) of sugar (and cinnamon and lemon juice if you want them). Stir until the blueberries are coated with the mixture. Divide between 4 or 5 medium ramekins.

In a separate bowl, whisk together 2 tbsp (1.5oz / 45g) of sugar, the egg and cream. Add the flour and stir until just combined, don’t over mix it! Pour the mixture into the  ramekins and sprinkle the remaining 1tbsp of sugar on top of the batter (or you could sprinkle cinnamon-sugar mixture onto the batter here…I highly recommend it!). Place the ramekins on a baking tray (to stop juice dripping everywhere in the oven).

Bake for 15-20 minutes, until well risen and golden brown.

* or just sub for an equal volume of all purpose flour and add 1 tsp of baking powder

14 thoughts on “Individual Blueberry Cakes – 5 ingredients, 30 minutes”

  1. These look almost too beautiful to eat! (Almost, I said. Almost…) I love your photos + use of font in the top picture, too. Your blog is such a dream to read!

  2. These are really last minute cakes. So easy and they look unbelievably good! I wonder if they work as one large cake.

    • Thanks! I think it would work, you would just have to increase the baking time probably by 15-20 minutes depending on the size of your cake pan.

  3. Tried this it came out just wonderful~ I loved it! every last bit of it… I did modify it a bit though, I didn’t want too much flour so I added half n half (flour and oats…) and then added some dark chocolate on top as well~
    Thanks for the recipe!!!

  4. Beautiful 🙂
    Will try it tomorrow. I’m just wondering why you used whipping cream for the crust part. I’ve read a lot of recipes that use butter instead of the whipping cream part.
    I’m just a wee bit worried about the whipping cream, i’s all. *fidgets in seat*

    • Well the fat in the cream replaces the need for using both milk and butter, so you only need to use one ingredient instead of two 🙂

  5. Instead of making individual blueberry cakes could I just make one large one considering I only have one large ramekin bowl/dish. Would I only have to change the time spent in the oven?

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