Blueberry Cake Recipe Recipe
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Recipe Overview
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 95 minutes
Serves: 8
Ingredients Needed
- 2.5 cups/360g/13ozs cake or plain all purpose flour
- 1 1/3 cups/300g/10.6ozs caster sugar
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup/125g/4ozs sour cream
- 1/2 cup/125g/4ozs buttermilk
- 1/2 cup/125ml/4flozs oil
- 100g/3.5ozs melted butter
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 teaspoons lemon zest
- 2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste
- 1 2/3 cup/250g/8.8ozs blueberries frozen or fresh
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons raw sugar
Step-By-Step Instructions
Step 1 PREPARE - Preheat oven to 150C/300F fan forced 170C/338F conventional. Grease and line a round 20cm/8inch baking tin. In a large bowl, sift the flour and baking powder together. Whisk in the sugar and salt.
Step 2 MIX - In a jug, whisk the sour cream, buttermilk, oil, melted butter, eggs, egg yolk, lemon zest and vanilla until you get a uniform texture and the oil has emulsified. Fold this wet mixture into the dry ingredients in 3 batches, making sure not to overmix. Toss blueberries in the flour and sugar, and fold into the batter. Scoop into the prepared tin and smooth over the top. Sprinkle raw sugar over the top of the cake.
Step 3 BAKE - Bake for 1 hour 35 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. As soon as the cake comes out of the oven, cover with parchment and then a plate and leave to cool completely.
Personal Note
A donkey bite was the impetus for this blueberry cake. I made this cake while away for a long weekend. We stayed at a stunning cottage in the Southern Highlands called Cuttaway Cottage that is also dog friendly. The Davidson family that own it are so lovely and I was so excited to meet their donkeys and ponies. The afternoon we arrived, they came down with some carrots for us to feed the donkeys. For the week prior to our visit I could not stop talking about the donkeys and ponies with Mr NQN.
Grainne explained that to feed donkeys, you need to hold your hand out flat and place the carrot on the flat of your palm. Except I of course didn't quite listen and my thumb was sticking out. Donkey Bella mistook my thumb for a carrot and chomped down on it. A donkey has a firm chomp but it doesn't really have sharp teeth so it was more a chomping pain than anything else. Glyn ran to the house and grabbed a bag of frozen blueberries and a first aid kit. It was actually fine and the next day I swear the donkeys en masse apologised as their heads were bowed and they brayed. "It's ok, it's my fault! My finger looked like a carrot!" I said patting them all.
We fed them watermelon and then I decided to make this cake as the house was so beautiful and the view from the kitchen just had to be the setting for this blueberry cake using the blueberries and as a thank you for a wonderful stay I left them this blueberry cake.
So tell me Dear Reader, have you ever tried the cake steaming method? Do you have any tips for keeping cakes moist?