Lemon Blueberry Butter Cake / Stephanie / CC BY-NC-ND
A refreshing lemon and berry cake is all you need this summer to enjoy the long, gorgeous, sunny days to come! Stacked between layers of blueberry filling and frosted with a delicious lemon buttercream, this cake is a definite winner at any gathering, party, baby shower, or brunch! The recipe below specifically makes the second cake from the top. Enjoy!
Refreshing Lemon Blueberry Layer Cake with Lemon Buttercream Frosting
Layers of delicious blueberry cake, blueberry filling, and lemon buttercream frosting.
For the Cake
– 2 cups plus 6 tbsp all-purpose flour
– 2 tsp baking powder
– 1 tsp salt
– 3 cups blueberries
– 1/2 cup sour cream
– 1/2 cup milk
– 2 tsp vanilla extract
– 3/4 tsp pure lemon extract
– 1 tsp lemon zest
– 1 cup unsalted butter, softened at room temp
– 1 1/2 cups sugar
– 4 large eggs
For the Blueberry Filling
– 1/2 cup blueberry jam
For the Lemon Buttercream Frosting
– 1 cup butter, room temp
– 4-6 cups confectioner’s sugar
– 1/4 cup milk
– 1 tsp lemon extract
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 F and grease 2, 10″ round cake pans.
- In a bowl, sift flour, baking powder, and salt. Place 1 tbsp of the flour into an empty bowl and toss in the blueberries, coating them with flour.
- In another bowl combine milk, sour cream, vanilla extract, lemon extract and lemon zest, set aside.
- Using an electric mixture, cream together butter and sugar in a mixing bowl until pale yellow and very fluffy. Slowly beat in eggs until combined.
- Alternately mix together flour and milk mixture and stir until combined and then fold in blueberries gently.
- Divide batter among the 2 pans and bake for 25 mins or until toothpick comes out clean. Remove from oven, cool for 10 mins on rack and then invert onto cooling rack.
- Spread blueberry jam on completely cooled cake layers and stack the layers.
- In a bowl using an electric mixer, beat butter until pale and fluffy.
- Slowly add in confectioner’s sugar, milk and lemon extract. Add more confectioner’s sugar if necessary.
- Frost the top and sides of the cake equally and decorate as you wish!
This recipe is for two cake layers – if you would like to have three layers like in the photo, split all the cake ingredients in half and bake another cake layer.