LEMON BLUEBERRY CAKE

THIS HOMEMADE LEMON CAKE CONSISTS OF FRESH BLUEBERRIES AND IS LAYERED WITH A HOMEMADE CREAM CHEESE FROSTING.

Ingredients Lemon Blueberry Cake: 12 tbsp unsalted butter, softened 2 1/4 cups granulated sugar 4 big eggs, room temp 1/3 cup fresh-squeezed lemon juice 2 tbsp lemon zest 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 tsp lemon extract 1 cup buttermilk, room temp 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour 2 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt 2 cups recent blueberries, rinsed 1 tbsp flour (to coat blueberries) Cream Cheese Frosting: 12 oz cream cheese, softened 12 tbsp unsalted butter, softened 4-5 cups powdered sugar 2 – 3 tbsp heavy whipping cream 2 tsp vanilla extract Instructions Cake: Lightly grease and flour three, nine-inch spherical cake pans. Line backside of pan with parchment paper. Set aside. Use grater to zest one lemon.  Cut and squeeze 3 – 4 lemons to degree out 1/3 cup lemon juice. Rinse and pat dry blueberries. Add to medium sized bowl and coat with 1 tbsp of flour. Set aside. Preheat oven to 350 ranges F. In separate bowl, upload in flour, baking powder, and salt. Combine and set aside. In big bowl, combine butter and sugar collectively with an electrical mixer on medium pace for 2 – 3 minutes. Add in eggs, one at a time, continuing to mix on medium pace till well-combined. Add in lemon juice, lemon zest, lemon extract, and vanilla extract to batter. Stir till combined. Alternate including in a third of the  flour combination adopted by way of means of a third of the  buttermilk. Blend on medium-low speed, repeating job till all meals are combined. Fold in blueberries to batter. Spread batter flippantly among the three, nine-inch pans. Bake at 350 ranges F for 28 – 30 minutes or till toothpick inserted into middle of cake comes out clean. Remove to wire rack to cool for at the least 10 minutes after which take away cake to wire rack to end cooling completely. Cream Cheese Frosting: In big bowl, upload cream cheese and butter together. Blend with electrical mixer on medium pace for 2 – 3 minutes. 2. Add in powdered sugar and vanilla extract. Continue to mix on medium-low speed. Add in a single to NULL tablespoons of heavy whipping cream, continuing to mix till frosting is mushy and creamy. (If frosting is simply too thick, upload extra tablespoon of heavy whipping cream as needed)

Fresh-squeezed lemon juice, lemon zest, and recent blueberries assist make this layered lemon cake a hit. This dessert is related to my a success tremendous lemon bundt cake recipe .

To make this recipe pass smoothly, you’ll desire to leap off by way of means of doing somewhat little bit of prep work first:

Lightly grease and flour three nine-inch spherical cake pans. (I also location a work of parchment paper in backside of every pan)

Now that we’re carried out with the prep work, it’s time to leap making this cake. In big bowl, combine softened butter and sugar collectively with an electrical mixer on medium pace for 2 – 3 minutes or till faded and fluffy.

butter and sugar combined collectively in big bowl
Add eggs, one at a time, mixing on medium pace till well-combined. Add in lemon zest, lemon juice, lemon extract, and vanilla extract and stir till combined.

Alternate including in a third of the flour combination adopted by way of means of a third of the buttermilk, mixing on medium-low speed. Continue alternating dry meals adopted by way of means of rainy meals till all meals are combined. Batter might be thick.

Spread batter flippantly among three, nine-inch spherical cake pans. (It might be about 2 1/2 cups of batter per pan)

lemon blueberry batter positioned in pans for baking
Bake at 350 ranges F for 28 – 30 minutes. (Start checking cake at 28 minute mark) Cake ought to be faded golden brown. Cake is carried out while toothpick inserted into middle of cake comes out clean. (Note: I can’t fit all 3 cake pans into my oven at one time, so I location NULL in first after which location in a single by way of means of itself)

While ready on muffins to cool, practice the cream cheese frosting. This is the related recipe I use for my carrot cake. Since that's a three-layered cake, you'll ought to make somewhat extra; otherwise, you’ll be scrimping while you pass to frost the cake.

Blend softened cream cheese and butter collectively in big bowl with electrical mixer on medium-high pace for 2 – 3 minutes.

Add in powdered sugar, heaving whipping cream, and vanilla extract. Continue to mix till frosting is mushy and creamy. (Note: if frosting is simply too thick, upload extra tablespoon of heavy whipping cream)

homemade cream cheese frosting
Use serrated knife to degree muffins if needed. Place first layer of cake on cake stand or plate. Place a beneficiant quantity of frosting in middle of cake and use spatula to frost ideal of cake.

cream cheese frosting introduced to layered cake
Use a skinny layer of cream cheese frosting to frost the aspects of the cake. This will serve because the crumb coat.  Place cake in refrigerator for 15 minutes after which follow moment layer of cream cheese frosting to ideal and aspects of cake.

Place closing cream cheese frosting in piping bag with 1M decorating tip and embellish outer aspect of cake. I alternated recent blueberries with frosting, but that's the position everyone’s own creativity kicks in. Have fun decorating as you’d like.

Lemon Blueberry Cake
This homemade, triple layered lemon cake includes recent blueberries and is topped with a cream cheese frosting. Delicious and refreshing.