🫐🥧Desserts remind me of poems—they’re short and sweet. Here is a poem written by a friend of the Dreamer in The Reader’s Realm.

About The Author 🫐🥧

Brian Sonia-Wallace has been called a “creative genius“ by the LA Department of Cultural Affairs and “disappointingly normal“ by the New York Times. His major work includes The Poetry of Strangers (essays), two chapbooks of poems, a dozen texts for choral songs, and writing in American Poets, Rolling Stone, and The Guardian. Brian is the fourth Poet Laureate of West Hollywood and an Academy of American Poets Fellow, as well as a Writer-in-Residence for Amtrak, Mall of America, Dollar Shave Club, the LA LGBT Center, the City of Los Angeles, and the National Parks. He teaches through the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. More at rentpoet.com & @rentpoet.

Website:  rentpoet.com

Blueberry Cobbler Cake 🫐🥧

Easy as pie and sweet as a cake

Recipe

Total Time: ~45 minutes
Skill Level: Beginner-Friendly
Category: Sweets & Treats – Cobblers and Cakes

🥗 Dietary Information
✅ Customizable (dairy-free butter & cake mix can be used)
❌ Contains Gluten
❌ Contains Dairy
⚠ Contains Refined Sugar

Ingredients

🫐 1 can blueberry pie filling or 1–2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries – For abundance, sweetness, and calm
🍬 Extra sugar – To sweeten memories and call in joy
🌰 Cinnamon – For warmth, protection, and magic in the everyday
🍰 ½ box yellow cake mix – For golden luck, ease, and comfort
🧈 1 stick (½ cup) butter, sliced – To bind, soothe, and enrich
🌟 Optional: more sugar and cinnamon for sprinkling on top – For sparkle, spice, and a little extra love

Instructions

1. Prep Your Filling
   Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C).
   Pour blueberry pie filling into a pie tin.
   – Optional: Stir in extra sugar and cinnamon to taste.
   – If using fresh/frozen berries: Soak them overnight in sugar, then season with cinnamon.

2. Add Cake & Butter
   Sprinkle half the box of yellow cake mix evenly over the top of the berries.
   Dot the entire surface with slices of butter.
   Sprinkle cinnamon and sugar across the top layer.

3. Bake
   Bake for ~35 minutes, until bubbling and golden brown on top.
   Let cool slightly before serving.

✨ Best Enjoyed…

• On a hot day with a scoop of ice cream, the kind that melts fast
• Shared under a shade tree or with the fan humming
• When you need something warm but easy, sweet but grounding
• With fingers sticky from joy and a quiet summer smile