#5 Cranberry Buckle with Vanilla Crumb

I had the pleasure of making this dessert for a couple good friends of ours. We hadn’t seen them in weeks, and George behaved so well while they were here, we were able to enjoy an adult dinner, dessert, and game of Ticket To Ride. I won. This dessert must have made me lucky 😉

What is a “buckle” you ask? Well I would choose to describe it as a blend between coffee cake and berry muffins. The term buckle comes from the action the berries take during baking. They “buckle”, breaking down so that they ooze their yummy juices, which permeates into the cake. It is quite delicious.

Vanilla Crumb ingredients

All but the vanilla

With the vanilla

Buckle ingredients

Dry ingredients mixed

Butter, sugar, and orange zest

Blended

After the eggs

After adding the dry mixture and sour cream

After folding in half the cranberries

Spread into the pan

Berries atop

Vanilla crumb sprinkled on

Baked

Close-up

Done