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BLUEBERRY LEMON LAYER CAKE

Blueberry Lemon Layer Cake ~ a brilliant layer cake recipe bursting with juicy berries and contemporary lemon.  It makes a wonderfully distinctive birthday cake, and I’ve yet to meet a soul who can resist this very good dessert.



Ingredients

  • 3 cups, or 409 grams, cake flour (you can use ordinary flour)
  • 1 Tbsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 and 3/4 cup, or 368 grams, granulated sugar
  • zest of one lemon, peeled with a vegetable peeler (no white pith)
  • 1 cup, or 226 grams, unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 3 jumbo or four big eggs, at room temperature
  • 2 tsp lemon paste (optional!)
  • 1 cup or 240 grams buttermilk
  • 1/3 cup or 81 grams contemporary lemon juice
  • 1 pint blueberries, plus further for decorating the cake
  • lemon buttercream
  • 1 cup or 226 grams, unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 6 cups, or 600 grams, confectioner's sugar
  • 6-8 Tbsp or 90-120 grams contemporary lemon juice, plus further if needed
  • garnish
  • blueberries
  • thyme sprigs
  • powdered sugar

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350F Grease and flour NULL 9-inch spherical cake pans, setting a spherical of parchment paper on the backside of every one.
  • Whisk collectively the flour, baking powder and salt and set aside.
  • Put the sugar and lemon zest right into a meals processor and job till moist, faded yellow, and no big items of zest remain. This will take below a minute.
  • Cream the butter and sugar collectively in a stand mixer for three minutes, scraping down the aspects of the gadget as necessary.
  • Beat within the eggs, one at a time, scraping down the aspects of the bowl in among every one addition. Beat within the lemon paste, if you are utilizing it.
  • Turn the mixer to low and upload the flour mixture, and just earlier than or no longer it's totally blended in, upload the buttermilk and lemon juice. Blend till combined, but don't over-mix. I want to end by means of way of hand to get everything incorporated.
  • Gently fold within the blueberries. Note: I did no longer use fairly the complete pint. Then divide the batter both among the NULL willing pans. Spread out to an even layer.
  • Bake the muffins within the heart of the oven for about 35 minutes, or till just start to pull clear of the aspects of the pan, the best springs again while touched, and a toothpick comes out with out any rainy batter on it (moist crumbs are fine.)
  • Let the muffins cool on a rack for 10 minutes, then take away them from the pans and keep to cool totally earlier than frosting.
  • To make the frosting, beat the gentle butter and sugar together, regularly including sufficient lemon juice to create a creamy spreadable frosting. If or no longer it's too thick, upload further lemon juice, and if or no longer it's too thin, upload somewhat further sifted sugar.
  • Frost the cake after which enhance as you like.

Lemon paired with berries is a herbal for spring and summer season desserts as the flavors are mild and bright.  This blueberry lemon layer cake joins plenty of different lemon/berry desserts on the weblog ~

Raspberry Lemon Cake
Lemon Layer Cake with Lemon Poppy Seed Buttercream
Raspberry Lemon Blondies
Blueberry Zucchini Cake with Lemon Buttercream
But lemons and blueberries in specific appear to have a cult following ~ there’s anything specific concerning the combo that drives us wild.
A blueberry lemon layer cake topped with contemporary blueberries
I supply the lemon and blueberries identical billing on this recipe; I’ve used virtually an complete pint of berries within the cake batter, but that’s balanced by means of way of the use of a distinctive lemon infused sugar, as nicely as a tremendous tangy lemon buttercream frosting to tie all of it together. 

I make lemon sugar by means of way of processing granulated sugar with the zest of lemon, and the end end effect is an aromatic, tremendous lemony sugar that provides a vibrancy to cakes, bars, and cookies like nothing else.

Click proper proper here to see how primary or no longer it's to make lemon sugar for all of your lemony desserts.
Blueberries decorating a blueberry lemon layer cake
a blueberry lemon cake topped with contemporary berries
Ideas for decorating this blueberry lemon cake ~
There are plenty of methods to garnish this cake, they all gorgeous.  Of course you'll be able to go away it plain, but why?

You would possibly enhance the best with edible flowers ~ purple pansies can be perfect. 
You may merely mound contemporary blueberries within the center, accented with fantastic strips of lemon zest.  A bathe of powdered sugar allows outline the berries and make them pop. 
You may also do it like I did but exchange small mint leaves for the thyme.  I assume it'll be truly good to slice a few of the berries in half crosswise to present off their gorgeous interiors.  If you do this, slice them just earlier than serving.
a slice of blueberry lemon layer cake
You can see the pretty fluffy crumb of the cake within the photos…I’m a stickler for that texture in cakes.  This recipe provides you the mild fluffy end end effect of a boxed mix, with the style and individual that just a do-it-yourself cake can give.

How to bake  a fluffy cake every one time ~
Preheat your oven, here is important!  The oven must be at temperature while you slide your cake in or it won’t rise properly.  I use an less expensive oven thermometer to double test the temperature.  Did you recognise that the bulk of ovens don't run true to temperature??  That can spell crisis for baking.
Make certain you prep your pans with butter, flour, and a spherical of parchment paper on the bottom, and do that first, so that you'll be able to bake your cake at this time after you’ve blended it.  Just hint the backside of the pan on a work of parchment to get the proper size.  You too can purchase less expensive packs of capable made parchment circles on Amazon, in any size, and they’re tremendous handy.
Follow the recipe.  It sounds silly, nevertheless it makes a difference…baking is a complicated chemical job and cake recipes are intently composed.  Changes are risky.
A stand mixer or electrical beater is fundamental while making muffins simply due to the fact you’ll desire it for creaming the butter and sugar together.  Make certain to beat for the proper quantity of time, don’t skip or skimp on this step.  You’re insuring a mild fluffy cake by means of way of beating in all that pretty air.
Your foods must be at room temperature, especially the butter and eggs.
Don’t open the oven to test in your muffins throughout the primary 2/3 of the baking time.  If you've got got to test or rearrange your cake pans, do it quick so that you don’t lose valuable oven heat.
The cake is finished while it springs again frivolously while touched within the center, while it has just began pulling clear of the aspects of the pan, and while a toothpick inserted within the deepest side comes out with out rainy batter on it.  Don’t over bake.
A slice of blueberry lemon layer cake on a marble surface
This primary cake comes collectively quickly, and while I’m pressed for time I’ll make the cake layers forward and frost it later that day, and even the subsequent day.  The cake can live out on the counter for a day, but after that must be refrigerated, in the event you happen to have any left, that is!

Blueberry Lemon Layer Cake
Blueberry Lemon Layer Cake ~ a brilliant layer cake recipe bursting with juicy berries and contemporary lemon, frosted with a tangy lemon buttercream frosting.

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