Lemon blueberry bundt cake
- Bundt cake pan 22 cm
- Preparation time: 40 minutes + 65 min baking + 120 minutes cooling
- Servings: 12
Tips:
- Bring all the ingredients to room temperature before use. It will prevent cracks in the cheesecake. Take the ingredients out of the fridge at least 1 hour before baking.
INGREDIENTS
For the cake:
- 130 g butter
- 250 g sugar
- 4 eggs (L)
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons lemon extract
- 280 g flour*
- 100 g cornstarch*
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 0.5 teaspoon baking soda
- 0.5 teaspoon salt
- 250 ml sour cream
- 65 ml lemon juice (approx. 2.5 lemons)
- 250 g blueberries
* You can use 380 g of cake flour instead of all-purpose flour and cornstarch.
For the glaze:
- 200 g cream cheese
- 30 g butter
- 0.5 teaspoon lemon extract
- 15 ml llemon juice
- 100 g icing sugar
- zest of 1 lemon
DIRECTIONS
- Pre-heat the oven to 160˚C..
- Grease the bundt cake form with butter.
- Combine butter and sugar using a mixer - 2 minutes.
- Add the eggs, one at a time. Add the next one after the last one is fully incorporated.
- Add the vanilla extract and the lemon extract and mix until combined.
- Add the sour cream and mix until combined.
- Add the lemon juice and mix until combined. Set aside.
- Prepare the flour. Stift it together a couple of times together with the cornstach, so that they are well combined.
- Add other dry ingredients to the flour: baking powder, baking soda and salt. Whisk until combined.
- Add the blueberries into the flour mix (save a few blueberries for the decoration). Mix them carefully in with a spatula. The flour layer should prevent the blueberries from sinking in the batter later on.
- Add the flour mixture to the bowl with wet ingredients. Mix gently with spatula until the ingredients are well combined.
- Fill the bundt pan with the batter. Bake 65 minutes.
- In the meantime prepare the glaze. In a sparate bowl combine all the ingredients (except the zest) using a mixer. Leave the glaze in the fridge until the cake is ready to be decorated.
- Turn of the oven and leave the oven door ajar for another 20 minutes. Let the cake cool inside.
- Take the cake out of the oven and let it cool completely.
- Decorate the cake with the glaze and sprinkle with lemon zest. You may also use some blueberries for the decoration.