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Healthy Blueberry Coffee Cake

August 31, 2019 By Jenna Braddock Leave a Comment

This recipe contest winner is a lighter version of coffee cake with a surprising twist of flavors. Give this Healthy Blueberry Coffee Cake a try when you need a homerun recipe for brunch.

When I first began Make Healthy Easy in 2015, I entered a lot of recipe contests. I was looking for both inspiration and quite frankly, money, to get this website off the ground. It was a fun time of chasing inspiration and unique ingredients and I happen to have won, not one, but four contests along the way.

One of the contests I stumbled upon was a challenge to pair blueberries with an uncommon flavor pairing. I chose bananas and mascarpone cheese and dreamed of a healthy blueberry coffee cake that brought all of these flavors together. I came up with this Healthy Blueberry Coffee Cake and it was a grand prize winner in the Blueberries Meet their Match recipe contest. It’s definitely one of my all-time favorite recipes I’ve created. …

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