Shop1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup granulated sugar
6 Tablespoons butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 large egg
1 large egg white
1-1/3 cups buttermilk
Cooking Spray
2 cups fresh aronia berries
2 Tablespoons turbinado sugar
In a medium bowl combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside. In a large bowl add butter and granulated sugar, beat with a mixer for about two minutes. Add vanilla, egg and egg white; mix well. Add flour mixture and buttermilk alternately to sugar mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture; mix after each addition. Spoon half the batter into a 9-inch round baking pan coated with cooking spray. Sprinkle evenly with 1 cup aronia berries. Spoon remaining batter over the aronia berries; sprinkle evenly with remaining 1 cup aronia berries. (Do not add extra aronia berries.) Sprinkle the top evenly with 2 Tablespoons turbinado sugar. Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes on a wire rack; remove from pan by running a knife around the edges and flipping the cake onto a plate. The bottom of the cake now becomes the top, do not flip it back over. Since the cake has a lot of fruit, a lot of moisture is present. This can lead to some of the fruit getting left behind in the pan. Don’t worry about it. Scrape any fruit or cake left in the pan into a bowl and have it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream later. Don’t throw it away!
