Wild Huckleberry Streusel Sunday Coffee Cake

By Lou Seibert Pappas, author of Coffee Cakes (Chronicle Books, 2006), Photo by Maren Caruso

Serves: 8, makes one 9-inch cake

Time: 40 to 45 minutes

Ingredients

Cake

4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter at room temperature
6 tablespoons sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoons grated orange zest
1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup buttermilk
1-1/2 cups fresh wild huckleberries, blueberries, blackberries, boysenberries, loganberries, raspberries, red currants or pitted sour cherries

Streusel Topping

1/4 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into bits
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/3 cup (1-1/2 ounces) chopped pecans or walnuts, plus 10 pecan or walnut halves

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350F. Butter and flour 9-inch pie pan.

2. In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar with wooden spoon or an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add the egg, vanilla, and orange zest, and beat well. In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, ba