Recipe: Filling Station's Sour Cream Coffee Cake (tube cake with blueberries)

FILLING STATION'S SOUR CREAM COFFEE CAKE

"Sara Dix's original bakery was located in the building at the base of Winthrop Hill. One day a tractor-trailer lost its brakes coming down the hill and crashed into the bakery, fell through the floor, and landed in the basement. Needless to say, this was a real crimp on "business as usual." However, Sara adapted, sold baked goods and sandwiches/soups out of her house, and then relocated to her current location - a converted gas station with an art deco look."

1 1/2 cups sugar
3/4 cup butter
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
3 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups dairy sour cream
1 cup blueberries

Heat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease a tube pan.

Beat sugar, butter, vanilla, and eggs in a bowl at medium speed. Add flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and sour cream.

Fold in blueberries. Pour batter into prepared pan.

Bake 45-50 minutes. Test with a toothpick; if it comes out clean, the coffee cake is done. Cool 20 minutes and remove from the pan.

Makes 1 tube cake
Source: Best of the Best from America by Gwen McKee and Barbara Moseley