I was at the grocery store the other day and for some reason I just had to have a can of blueberry pie filling. I'm not certain why. I don't make blueberry pies. But, I did have this great idea to make some sort of blueberry cake. Since I just really wanted to make (and more importantly, eat) cake but didn't want a ton of hassle, I just grabbed a box of white cake mix and left the rest to fate. Guess what? It was good. This, my friends, is my blueberry sour cream swirled cake:
Hello, Swirly.
There are reasons why I went with a swirled cake like this and didn't make a dump cake. The main reason was: I didn't want to make a dump cake. I also didn't think taking the whole can of blueberry filling and mixing in directly with the cake would work out well. These were the ingredients I used:
1 box of white cake mix
3 egg whites
1/3 cup butter
2/3 c. water
2/3 c. milk
(you can forget about those last 4 ingredients and follow the box directions exactly if you'd prefer)
1 small can of blueberry pie filling
1/2 cup sour cream
juice of 1/2 lemon
1/2 teaspoon sugar
Mix the egg, butter, and milk together until everything is getting along smoothly (see what I did there?). Add the white cake mix and blend on medium speed for a few minutes (or if you're old school like me, just blend by hand). Pour the mix into a pan (I used 9x13, but you could use anything. Even a cupcake tin). Mix your sour cream, lemon and sugar together and set aside. Now, take large spoonfuls of the blueberry pie filling and plop it around in random places on the cake. Do the same with the sour cream. It should look something like this:
Mmm... gloppety gloop.
This is the fun part: take a butter knife and swirl everything together! Don't swirl too much or you'll just have a purple cake with blueberries in it. Bake your cake according to the directions on the back of the cake box. I think mine went in at 350* for a total of 28 minutes.
I served the cake with a dollop of whipped cream. It is incredibly moist, so I had a hard time cutting it. But it looks something like this (just imagine it looks prettier):
Why did I showcase the end piece?!
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