I’ve been pinning a lot of lemon blueberry recipes for quite some time looking for the perfect lemon blueberry cake recipe.  When I came across this pin from Chef in Training, I thought it looked so moist and full of blueberries, just want I was looking for, so I gave it a try.

This Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake is fantastic and I’m sure you will love it too!

The recipe called for the loaves to be baked for 55-60 minutes.  I checked mine at 55 minutes and I think I should have taken it out about 5 minutes earlier.  It was still moist and delicious, but the edges were a bit browned.  After 45-50 minutes start checking your loaves by poking with a tooth pick and if it comes out clean it’s ready!

I wanted the cake to have a strong lemon flavor so I swapped the vanilla for lemon extract in the cake portion of the recipe.  For the glaze I only used only lemon juice and no milk as called for.  If you’d like a milder lemon flavor make it according to the recipe as written.

Enjoy this Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake any time of the day.  I had a slice (ok, let’s be honest, 2 slices) for breakfast with a big cup of coffee after my workout.  Now that’s a perfect breakfast, in my opinion!

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Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter 2 sticks, room temperature
• 1¾ cups sugar
• zest of one large lemon
• 3 eggs
• ½ teaspoon vanilla
• ¾ cup buttermilk
• 3 cups fresh blueberries
• 2½ cups flour plus a bit more to toss with the blueberries
• 2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• Lemon Glaze
• 1½ cup powdered sugar
• 1 Tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 Tablespoon lemon zest
• 1 Tablespoon milk
• ¼ teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350°
• In a large bowl, cream butter, sugar, and lemon zest together until light and fluffy, about 3 to 5 minutes.
• Add eggs one at a time and beat on low an additional minute after each egg, adding vanilla with the last egg.
• In a separate large bowl add dry ingredients and stir to combine.
• Alternate adding 1/3 of the dry ingredients and the buttermilk at a time to the butter/sugar/lemon zest/egg mixture. Don't over mix, just combine the ingredients.
• In small bowl, toss the blueberries with a tablespoon or two of flour to coat the blueberries (this helps keep them from sinking to the bottom when baking). Gently fold blueberries into batter.
• Grease and flour 2 large loaf pans.
• Divide batter between the pans and bake for about 50-55 min. Start checking for doneness after 45 minutes.
• Let loaves cool about a half hour, remove from pans. Drizzle glaze over top of loaves.

To make the Lemon Glaze:

• Whisk together glaze ingredients in mixing bowl until smooth.

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See you next month!

Judy

Here’s a few more delicious baking treats from my blog I’m sure you’ll enjoy:

Lemon Blueberry Muffin Tops

Double Berry Muffins

Zucchini Pineapple Muffins

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