Blackberry Custard Cake Recipe


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Blackberry Custard Cake

This simple, quick recipe is perfect for breakfast, brunch or dessert. But simple and quick doesn’t convey just how deliciously satisfying this custard cake is. Warm, sweet custard filling, packed with tart, fresh blackberries, tops the most perfect sweet & buttery crust. All we need are a few basic ingredients and a little baking magic. 

Blackberry Custard Cake ingredients, bowl of blackberries and a bowl of butter.

So let’s talk ingredients :

  • cake mix
  • butter
  • cream
  • blackberries
  • sugar
  • vanilla
  • cinnamon

Rather than using a boxed cake mix, I love making my own cake mix and storing it in bulk. Keeping a “cake mix” canister in the pantry not only simplifies recipe making, it also cuts out all of those unnecessary, hard-to-pronounce additives. You can check out my favorite bulk cake mix recipe HERE.

Blackberry Custard Cake dough ball in a baking dish

Once the butter & cream are cut into the cake mix, the crust can be pressed into a prepared baking dish. This next step is where the magic happens! Sprinkle another ½ cup of the cake mix over the crust. This will help create the prefect custard cake by thickening the cream & eggs while lightly puffing them at the same time.

Blackberry Custard Cake

Layer fresh blackberries over the cake mix crust and sprinkle with a few tablespoons of turnbinado sugar. ((Actually, any fresh berry will work perfectly, but blackberries grow wild in Oklahoma in the late spring and early summer months.))That little bit of crystalized sugar helps cut that sour tartness blackberries are notorious for.

Blackberry Custard Cake ingredients

Whisk together cream, sugar, eggs, vanilla, cinnamon and another ¾ T of cake mix in order to prepare the quick custard filling.

Last, pour the filling over the blackberries and bake the dish at 375° for 40 minutes.

Baking powder, one of the 4 ingredients in my bulk cake mix, is the secret to perfectly puffed custard.

Blackberry Custard Cake

The top is a beautiful golden brown flecked with pops of bright magenta from the bursted blackberries, while the center is sweet and creamy with just at hint of cinnamon. And then there is that quick cake mix crust, crisp & sweet, with the perfect amount of salty butteriness. It is just too delicious to be so simple ((yay! Simple & delicious are always the best recipes, don’t you agree?!)).

However, the real dilemma comes in the name — I hesitate to label this recipe as a “cake” for fear that it will cause me to feel guilty when eating it for breakfast. Although I find it hard to allow this treat to cool slightly before digging in, once that first warm bite hits my mouth, that guilty thought flies out the door! Suddenly, this Blackberry Custard Cake seems equally appropriate for lunch and dinner too, haha!

Blackberry Custard Cake


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