Simple to make Healthy Blueberry Breakfast Cake is something between a bake, cake, and a morning casserole. It’s soft, sweet, and absolutely delicious gluten-free breakfast treat!
We also love this healthy breakfast cake, blueberry cottage cheese breakfast bake and cottage cheese blueberry muffins for make ahead breakfasts during summer.
Why You’ll Love This Breakfast Cake
I am always on the hunt for easy blueberry breakfast recipes during the blueberry season in July-August because we have a lot of blueberries in PNW. And this healthy blueberry breakfast cake did not disappoint!
It’s less sweet than our favorite jammy blueberry coffee cake making it perfect for breakfast. It has soft and fluffy texture, nutty flavor and is made with 9 simple ingredients.
This blueberry breakfast cake has officially won my kids over – they “inhaled” it and even asked for seconds. It says a lot because they would eat blueberry fritters and blueberry pancakes no problem but recipes with almond flour can be hit-and-miss.
It keeps well in the fridge baked and you can make it ahead of time. Serve with a scoop of Greek yogurt for breakfast or vanilla ice cream for dessert, it’s versatile!
Reader’s Review
My hard-to-please son LOVED this recipe. Thank you so much.
Jen
Ingredients for Healthy Blueberry Breakfast Cake
- Almond flour: This is essentially finely ground blanched almonds. You can make almond flour at home or just buy it. Please do not substitute any other flour in this recipe. Wheat flour contains gluten which makes it rise and absorb liquid differently than any other flour. Coconut flour is too “thirsty”.
- Eggs: Almond flour needs serious binder like eggs. I have not tried it with flax eggs yet.
- Maple syrup or honey: Just a small amount of natural sweetener compliments the sweet blueberries.
- Milk (not pictured): Any milk works. I used dairy-free unsweetened almond milk.
- Blueberries: Fresh or frozen blueberries (no need to thaw them first). I feel like frozen berries “leak” more, but are still delicious!
- Baking staples: Baking powder, baking soda, salt and vanilla extract.
How to Make Healthy Blueberry Breakfast Cake
Get ready for how easy peasy this healthy blueberry recipe truly is!
Whisk: In one large bowl, combine eggs, milk, maple syrup, baking powder, baking soda, salt and vanilla extract. Whisk well to combine.
Mix: In another bowl, mix rinsed and well drained blueberries with 1/4 cup of almond flour. Then stir gently to coat.
It helps blueberries not sink to the bottom of the baking dish in the oven. A major trick I learnt years ago.
Combine: Now mix the blueberries with the batter. Your cake batter will be thick.
And don’t worry if yours seems less thick than mine pictured above. I used farmer’s eggs and not all were large.
Transfer to baking dish: Pour into a prepared baking dish, level with spatula.
Bake: Bake at 350 degrees F for at least 40 minutes or honestly just play it by ear. When it starts to turn golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean, your blueberry breakfast cake is done.
Tips for Best Results
- Type of baking dish: I most often use ceramic or metal baking pan as it produces consistent results and cooks evenly. Glass takes longer to heat up and you may have to cook the cake longer.
- Batter will be thick: This is normal, do not add extra liquid to thin it out.
- More or less blueberries: I wanted to have as much natural sugar as possible in this cake, so I used 4 cups of fresh blueberries. You can use less, if desired.
- Don’t substitute the flour: Almond flour is quite unique and cannot be substituted with any other flour unless it’s another nut flour.
- Citrus zest: Adding a little orange, lime or lemon zest would be delicious!
- Sprinkle of icing sugar: Powdered sugar sprinkled on top adds a lovely decadent look.
- Other berries: Use raspberries, blackberries, loganberries, Saskatoon berries, black currants etc. Do not rinse berries with a hole inside (like raspberries). I feel like it’s a great way to use up an abundance of almost any kind of your local fresh berries.
Serving Ideas
You can serve this blueberry breakfast cake on its own. Heck, even no need to let it cool. Slice with a bread knife into 8 slices, then gently loose around the edges and on the bottom with flat spatula, and serve warm.
In Ukraine, where I am from, we always ate Ukrainian sweet lazy pierogi with sour cream. I always add a dollop of plain Greek yogurt on top of my slice.
My kids like to pour more maple syrup over their slices but that’s a bit too sweet for me. Depends what berries you use. You can definitely add extra maple syrup to the batter if your blueberries are on a sour side.
FAQs
You can refrigerate the cake in an airtight container for up to 3-4 days or freeze for up to 3 months. To thaw, just place cake on a counter for a few hours.
Yes, and yes, and yes. Stick baking dish with assembled covered cake in the fridge for 1-2 days. Then bake as per recipe. Fresh blueberries do not “leak” and even if other berries do, it’s not a big deal.
More Healthy Blueberry Recipes
- Blueberry yogurt cake
- Healthy blueberry muffins
- Healthy lemon blueberry bread
- Almond flour blueberry muffins
- Blueberry crumble bars
- Blueberry Greek yogurt scones
- Healthy blueberry bread
- Blueberry oatmeal cookies
Healthy Blueberry Breakfast Cake
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Ingredients
- 4 large eggs
- 1/2 cup any milk, I used unsweetened almond milk
- 1/4 cup maple syrup or honey
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 3 cups almond flour
- 4 cups fresh or frozen blueberries
- Cooking spray, I use Misto
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and spray large 9 x 13 baking dish with cooking spray. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, add eggs, milk, maple syrup, baking powder, baking soda, salt and vanilla extract. Whisk really well until smooth. Add 2 3/4 cups almond flour reserving 1/4 cup. Mix well with spatula. Batter will be thick.
- In a separate large bowl, add blueberries and sprinkle with remaining 1/4 cup almond flour. If blueberries are fresh, make sure to rinse and drain well. Stir gently to coat blueberries in flour. It prevents berries from sinking to the bottom.
- Add coated in flour blueberries to batter and gently stir them in. Batter will be thick. Transfer to prepared baking dish and level gently with spatula. Bake for 40 minutes or until bake starts to turn golden brown and toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and slice with a bread knife into 8 slices. Then gently loose around the edges and on the bottom with flat spatula.
- Serve warm or cold with plain yogurt and a bit of maple syrup, if you wish. Blueberry cake was sweet enough for me but kids went for more maple syrup, of course.
Notes
- Store: Refrigerate in a container for up to 3 days.
- Freeze: Up to 3 months. To thaw, just place on a counter for a few hours.
- Make ahead: Assemble casserole. Store in fridge 1-2 days, bake as directed.
- Other berries: Use any raspberries, blackberries, loganberries, Saskatoon berries, black currants etc. Do not rinse berries with a hole inside (like raspberries).
- Sweetener: You can definitely add extra maple syrup to the batter if your berries are sour.
- Frozen blueberries: No need to thaw frozen blueberries.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Can I use natural almond flour? It looks like it has some of the dark skin of the almonds ground in it.
It is almond meal. I am pretty sure you can.
I actually tried it with chickpea flour and thought it turned out quite good! thank you for the great recipe!
You are very welcome!
Can you freeze almond flour?
Yes
Our new favorite! It’s lovely! Lots of berries gluten free, low sugar! I added cardamom and cinnamon but I always do. I think a little lemon zest would be nice. But the recipe is perfect as is I just like to play.
Awesome!!! Happy to hear, Joshlynn. Yes, you can add lemon no problem. I just keep it basic to keep things simple.
New favorite summer recipe! I grow blueberries and love blueberry recipes! 1/4 cup of maple is just right for us because we strive for low sugar and some GF! Perfect! In winter I find pesticide free blueberries at Cosco, so it will probably be a winter treat too. Great with coffee. Easy steps, coating the blueberries is a great lesson as other recipes have turned out sunken blueberries. Thank you!
Hey Joshlynn! Thanks for sharing!
Oh boy oh boy, this is delicious!! I stuck to the recipe precisely and don’t have any tweaking in mind for the next time.. Had to let the frozen blueberries thaw because otherwise they’re in big frozen blocks. The luscious juice is possibly part of why the cake is so good but it’s also THE reason why the cake is dark blue with a touch of green! If I drain the berries next time, will the cake be as delightfully tasty as it is now? I’m nibbling it warm from the oven now and I know I’ll love it cold tomorrow. It’s extremely sweet as is with the 1/4C maple syrup and the berries. I went with 16 pieces, which are not puny at all. I used very old Trader Joe frozen berries and frozen berries from Costco that I bought yesterday. I didn’t try them to test for sweetness. Just assumed (correctly) that they’d be sweet enough for this fabulous cake. THANK YOU, OLENA!!
You are very welcome Marge! Hope you enjoy it tomorrow morning!
So excited to try this! Can I substitute almond flour for oat flour ( I am thinking about grinding up my oatmeal to make the flour)
Unfortunately not. This recipe has been tested with almond flour. It’s a fine balance of wet to dry ingredients and I can’t guarantee how it will turn out with oat flour (totally different than almond flour).
This was easy and I thought the 1/4 cup of maple syrup was plenty, even with me adding some cranberries due to not having 4 cups of blueberries. Tasted delicious especially with the tang of plain yogurt.
Thanks for sharing!
Just made this and it came out amazing. I didn’t have any milk so I used a little bit of sweetened condensed milk and left out the syrup or honey so it wouldn’t be too sweet. Overall it came out great!
Happy to hear this Kay!
I enjoyed this Healthy Blueberry Breakfast Cake! I used frozen Costco wild blue berries which are large and made the breakfast cake all blue. I think I will try fresh blueberries, or the PC Wild Canadian frozen blueberries next time! Thank you Olena!
Glad you liked it Diane. The inside of my cake is pretty blue too, but it tastes delicious!
Hi, Is it possible to make this without syrup or honey? Would I need to substitute something to keep it from being too dry?
Yes. Just add a bit more milk to bring it to spreadable consistency. Should be fine.