Easy Blueberry Cake Recipe for a Fresh and Fruity Dessert Anytime

Blueberries are one of the tastiest and healthiest fruits you can include in your baking. With their sweet and sour flavor and striking purple color, they add loads of flavor and colorful accents to any dessert. Here's a recipe on how to make a delicious and easy blueberry cake that can be suitable for any occasion, especially given it is the blueberry season. You can easily prepare it for any last-minute parties and still be praised for your baking skills.

Blueberry Cake

Ingredients:

• 251 gm flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• A pinch of salt
• 201 gm butter
• 402 gm sugar
• 3 eggs
• 4 tsp vanilla extract
• 121 ml milk
• 252 gm blueberries (fresh or frozen)

Method:

1. You need to preheat the oven to 180°C, grease two round cake pans and line their bottoms with parchment paper.
2. In a medium bowl, you are going to whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt, and stir until well combined.
3. Using an electric mixer, you have to cream softened unsalted butter and granulated sugar until the combination is light and fluffy. This will take you about 2-3 minutes.
4. You have to beat in eggs, one at a time. You must be careful to see that each egg is fully incorporated before adding in the next one.
5. Then, you will beat in pure vanilla extract and whole milk.
6. You can gradually add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients, beating just until combined.
7. Next, you need to fold in fresh or frozen blueberries but you have to take care to do it gently so that they don't get squished while you’re working the batter.
8. You can then divide the batter evenly between the prepared pans, smooth out the tops, and remove the excess air bubbles by gently tapping the pans onto the kitchen countertop.
9. After that, you have to bake the cakes for 30 to 35 minutes.
10. Next, you can remove the cakes from the oven and let them cool in the pans for 5 minutes, after which you can transfer them to a wire rack to cool off completely.
11. Once the cakes are completely cool, you can frost and decorate them as you desire.
12. Before serving, you can dust them with confectioners' sugar.

Additional tips and tricks to bake your blueberry cake

In order to ensure that your cake is moist and flavorful, be careful not to overwork the batter. Overworking the batter will incorporate more air into the mix than necessary, which will result in a slightly chewy cake. You want the cake to be light, but also melt-in-your-mouth, not dry and rubbery.

If you want to add an extra layer of flavor to your cake, you can try adding a teaspoon of lemon zest or a handful of chopped nuts (roasted cashew, almonds or pistachios) to the batter. Roasting the nuts unlocks their woody, nutty aroma and the sugar is slightly caramelized, which makes the nuts slightly sweeter and more crumbly.

To make your cake more visually appealing, you can try topping it with a handful of fresh blueberries along with a sprinkling of powdered sugar. The blueberries will also make your cakes retain more moisture and will give them accentuated textures.

If you're feeling experimentative, you can add buttermilk to your cake and give it a nice tangy taste. Buttermilk will also increase the moisture level and tenderness of the dish. Additionally, the reaction of the buttermilk with the baking soda will create a cake that is extremely light and fluffy.

The perfect cake is essentially about balance and harmony. It's about how the right ingredients are combined in the right proportions to create a cake that has the requisite moisture, flavor, and visual appeal. Essentially, baking a cake is not just following a recipe - it's facilitating the intermingling of ingredients with patience and love, and letting the oven do the rest. By following this easy blueberry cake recipe, you will be able to create a truly exceptional cake. It's also a great way to incorporate those extra blueberries of the season into something other than jams, marmalades and pop tarts. You can serve it with light beverages or mocktails at your family gatherings, or let your kids go on a joyful ride with each bite of this cake. With its refrigerator life of up to 5 days, you can savor it for some time after giving it your efforts in the kitchen to prepare it.