Earl Grey Blueberry Coffee Cake

An easy infusion of tea in scalded milk, makes this Earl Grey Blueberry Coffee Cake incredibly delicious and a snap to make. (Jump directly to the recipe.)

I have a new obsession and its name is Snapchat. Part of me wants to curl up in a ball and hide under a rock when I admit that. I want to call it “a guilty pleasure” but the reality is, I feel no guilt in using it. In fact, it’s reinvigorated my love of social media because it’s so refreshing to not have to deal with the insanity of the highly curated life and social media “pressure” of trying to get comments and likes on pretty much every other social media channel everywhere. Snapchat doesn’t allow for public “likes” or comments so anytime I share things on Snapchat, no one else knows if I get 10 views or 10,000 views! I love that. No societal pressure to perform, instead I get to just share whatever I want. And yes it’s infuriating to use because it’s basically designed for 13 year-olds. And I am 40-something-year-old that is feeling very geriatric lately (I’m totally doing that thing with the phone where I pull it back and forth from my eyes to try to get it into focus). But it’s exactly because of Snapchat that I ended up making this Earl Grey Blueberry Coffee Cake. And I have absolutely no guilt or regrets about this coffee cake.

It started out when I admitted to my Snapchat pals that my partner AJ was out of town and all my bad habits that I usually repress to keep from annoying him come flaring back up. This includes things like letting the dishes pile up in the sink, leaving the apartment a hot mess without picking anything up, and eating like a college student. Yes, as a food blogger, this is probably the worse admission. I order ton of cheap Chinese carryout and then gorge on it. It’s not pretty but I can’t help myself.

But I also go crazy at the grocery store! AJ basically functions like my built-in self-control. I’ll be at the grocery store, reaching for a donut, and he’ll be all “Do you REALLY need that donut?” No. I don’t. No one REALLY needs a donut. Or I’ll pile the grocery cart full of potato chips (because they’re on sale!) and he’ll be “we really don’t have room for 12 bags of chips. Maybe buy 3?” and I’ll reluctantly put back 9 bags. But the worse is the fruit. I have a habit of going crazy and buying TONS of fruit when he’s gone (because it looks so fabulous at the grocery store) only to find that I either have a ton of fruit in the fridge already, or that I overbought and can’t eat it fast enough. And this is what happened when I found myself buying another package of blueberries at the store, only to find a box of unopened blueberries in the fridge. Gah!

So here’s the thing. I COULD have just frozen the older blueberries. Which might be a good solution except that my freezer is pretty packed right now with goose stock that I just made (and yes I totally snapped me making stock — I told you I’m obsessed!). So I went on Snapchat and asked my friends what I should make? Should I make blueberry muffins or blueberry coffee cake? To my surprise more than twice as many people picked blueberry coffee cake over muffins (though one person told me I should have made cobbler…which came too late after I had decided I wanted cake or muffins). So thanks to Snapchat, I made this Earl Grey Blueberry Coffee Cake and it’s pretty damn fantastic. No guilt with this coffee cake or my new social media obsession. No guilt at all.

If you like this coffee cake, check out these other coffee cakes:
Rhubarb and Blackberry Coffee Cake
Peach and Blueberry Coffee Cake
Cherry Buckle Cake
Sugar Roasted Peaches and Blueberry Bacon Infused Buckle

And check out some of my other coffee cakes from around the web:
Foodness Gracious’ Chocolate Espresso Coffee Cake
Chez Us’ Upside Down Cranberry Coffee Cake
Nutmeg Nanny’s Zucchini Coffee Cake
Simply Recipes’ Apple Coffee Cake
White on Rice’s Pumpkin Spice Coffee Cake