Lemon Blueberry Cake

 

I'm happy to share with you this delicious cake, I usually prepared them as a gift because you can make a lovely presentation with the blueberries and the frosting on top!

Preparation time: 20 minutes

Cook time: 35 minutes

Serving: 12 cake slices

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F

Ingredients:

Cake:

Dry ingredients

- 2 cups all purpose flour

- 3 teaspoons baking powder

- 1/2 teaspoon salt

Wet ingredients

- 1 cup granulated sugar

- zest of 1 large lemon 

- 2 large eggs room temperature

- 3/4 cup canola oil

- 1 cup plain greek yogurt

- 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice

- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

- 1 1/4 cups blueberries

Frosting:

- 1 1/2 cups confectioner's sugar

- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter melted

- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

- Blueberries for decoration on top of the cake

Instructions:

Dry ingredients

In a bowl sift together the flour, baking powder and salt.

Wet ingredients

In other bowl combine the sugar and lemon zest rubbing both together with your fingers until fragrant, add the eggs, oil, yogurt, lemon juice and vanilla extract. Stir until well combined.

Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and whisk until the batter is smooth, then gently fold in the blueberries, that are previously covered with flour so that they do not remain at the bottom of the cake.

Poor the batter into a prepared round cake pan. (The cake pan should be covered with butter or nonstick cooking spray, at the botton of the pan you can put a parchment paper sheet so that the cake does not stick to it).

Baking 

Bake for 35-50 minutes, it depends on your oven, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. After this remove the cake and let it cool for 20 minutes, then run a butter knife around the edges to release the cake from the pan and remove the parchment paper sheet too, let it cool completely.

Decoration with frosting:

For the lemon frosting, in a bowl put all the ingredients and whisk until smooth.

When the cake is cool pour the frosting onto the center of the cake with a spatula and garnish with blueberries.

Enjoy :)