This Lemon Blueberry Cake is all about celebrating the flavor of lemon combined with the tang of blueberries. We have made a simple blueberry compote and then baked a lemon cake with blueberry swirls. To make it look a bit prettier, sliced the lemon blueberry cake into two halves and filled some fresh whipped cream between.
Take a saucepan and soak the dried blueberries in lukewarm water, just enough to submerge them. Leave it like this for an hour or so to re-hydrate them.
Put this on heat and add 2 tbsp of sugar to it. Allow this to simmer while macerating the berries with the back of the spoon. Soon you will get a mushy and jam-like consistency. Turn off the heat and allow it to cool down.
Add oil to the eggs and whisk them vigorously till light and airy. Add the zest and juice of two golf ball sized lemons.
Now, pour the batter into a lightly oiled and floured cake tin. Add drops of the compote on the cake and make swirls using a toothpick or a fork and bake it at 180c for 30 minutes.
Once you see that the cake has baked and the sides are pulling back from the edges, you know that it is done.
Take it out and allow it to cool in the cake tin for 10 minutes before turning it upside down on a wire rack to cool down completely.
Whisk the chilled whipping cream till stiff peaks.
Now, to assemble the dessert, slice the lemon sponge cake with blueberry swirls into two halves using a knife. Place one half on your serving platter and put some of the whipped cream on it to make an even layer of it. Place the other half of the cake on top of this. Now using an icing bag fitted with a piping nozzle, decorate the top.
Lemon Blueberry Cake Recipe https://speakingaloud.in/lemon-blueberry-cake-recipe/ February 26, 2021