Blueberry Lemon Cake
A slice of summer vibes; the soft and tender blueberry and lemon cake 🍋🍃
Prep. Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 2 hours
Serving: 2-4 servings
Ingredients
Lemon sponge cake
- 2 Eggs (I use medium size, about 50 g. each)
- 50 g. Caster sugar
- lemon zest
- 1/2 tsp. Vanilla extract
- 50 g. Cake flour or All-purpose flour
- 7 g. Melted unsalted butter
- 10 g. Milk
Filling
- Blueberry Jam
- 250 g. Whipping cream
- 25 g. Caster sugar
- Fresh blueberries for decorating
- Lemon slices for decorating
- Thymes for decorating
Tools
- Whisk / Hand mixer / Stand mixer
- Medium heat-proof mix bowl
- a pot fill with hot water
- Mesh seive
- Measure cup
- 12 cm. round cake mold
- Parchment paper
- Wire rack
- Spatulas
- Cake turntable
Instructions
Lemon sponge cake
Preheat oven to 160°C, upper and lower heat.
In mix bowl, add egg, sugar, lemon zest and vanilla extract. Mix until combined.
Place the bowl in side a pot fill with hot water. Whisk the mixture until reach 37°C - 42°C or until warm to touch. Remove from heat. Whisk on high speed for 2 minutes, until the mixture hold ribbon stage; the mixture must be triple in volume, pale and light colour. Whisk on low speed for 1 minutes to remove large air bubbles.
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| Ribbon Stage |
Sift flour into egg mixture. Gently fold until incorporated. Set aside.
In small measure cup, stir together melted butter and milk. Mix about a third of flour/egg mixture into the butter. Then fold it back to remain batter.
Gently pour the batter into the mold which is covered with the parchment paper.
Bake in 160°C, upper and lower heat for 30 minutes.
Cool completely in wire rack.
Filling
In a mean time, add whipping cream and sugar in mix bowl. Whisk on high speed until the cream hold stiff peak.
Assembly
Cut the cake horizontally into 2 or 3 layers.
Place the first layer on cake turntable, spread 1/4 of whipped cream on top. Spread 2 tbsp. of blueberry jam on top of whipped cream. Put cake to make the second layer. Repeat this step 2 more times.
Spread remain whipped cream over the cake.
Arrange blueberries, lemon slices and thymes for decorating.
Now the cake is ready to serve. Enjoy!
Tips
- It is possible to use room temperature egg mixture. But the mixture might be take a little bit longer to reach the ribbon stage.