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This recipe is from my new favourite cookbook - one I borrowed from the library (and don't ever want to return!) - a Women's Weekly one of course, called "Baking Day".  If you can get your hands on it, take look, it's just divine!

Anyway, this is a delicious cake - I just love the blueberries and the syrup gives it such a nice flavour - I'd definitely make this again!

Ingredients

125g butter, softened

1/2 cup caster sugar

2 eggs

1 3/4 cups self-raising flour

1/2 cup buttermilk

3/4 cup blueberries

Vanilla syrup

1/2 cup caster sugar

1/2 cup water

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Method

Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius.  Grease deep 20cm ring cake pan; line base and side with baking paper.

Beat butter and sugar in small bowl with electric mixer until light and fluffy.  Beat in eggs one at a time.  Stir in flour and buttermilk, in two batches: spread mixture into pan.  Sprinkle with frozen berries, gently pressing into cake mixture.

Bake cake about 45 minutes.  Stand cake in pan 5 minutes before turning, top side up, onto wire rack over tray.

Meanwhile, make vanilla syrup: Combine sugar and water in small pan; store over heat, without boiling, until sugar dissolves.  Simmer, uncovered, without stirring, 2 minutes.  Stir in extract.

Drizzle hot syrup over cake.