Sweetened Condensed Milk Cake

Dense, sweet, and unabashedly decadent, today’s Condensed Milk Cake is simple to prepare and easy to love.

This recipe keeps well, and would be simply delicious topped with something like a homemade vanilla bean ice cream, or drizzled with a luscious rum sauce.  For a simpler, but equally delicious pairing, consider a specialty coffee.

Sweetened Condensed Milk CakePhoto byLiving the Gourmet

Ingredients

• 14 oz. can of condensed milk
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 4 tbs. unsalted butter, melted
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1 cup blueberries
• 1 1/4 cups flour
• 4 eggs
• About a tsp. of lemon zest
• Cinnamon sugar, for sprinkling
• Powdered sugar, for dusting

Instructions

1. Preheat oven 350 degrees F.
2. Combine the condensed milk, melted butter, lemon zest and vanilla in a bowl and mix to combine.
3. Add the eggs and mix.
4. In a separate bowl combine the flour and baking powder and add to the condensed milk mixture and mix with a hand beater.
5. Dust the blueberries with the cinnamon sugar and then fold into the batter.
6. Prepare a baking pan with either parchment or rub with butter.
7. Pour the batter into the pan and sprinkle more cinnamon sugar on top.
8. Bake for 45 minutes or until a toothpick test comes out clean.
9. Let cool and gently loosen the sides of the cake. Remove from the pan and dust with powdered sugar.

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