Lemon Blueberry Cake

This lemon blueberry cake recipe is the moistest, softest, easiest cake you’ll ever bake!

No kidding here; this recipe is a breeze to put together as we make it with simple everyday ingredients – and without eggs.

The crumb’s texture is soft, moist, and light. The cake slices perfectly. The blueberries get juicy and slightly gooey and infuse the cake with their incredible flavor and beautiful purple color.

We make the cake in 3 easy steps. First, we whisk the wet ingredients together in a bowl. Second, we sift the dry ingredients and give them another quick whisk.

Third, we fold the blueberries and transfer the cake batter to a springform pan or cake pan before baking it for 50 minutes.

To ensure the blueberries don’t sink to the bottom of the cake, we toss them in a tablespoon of flour.

Honestly, we could make this one every day and eat it for breakfast (there’s less sugar than in a bowl of cereals), as a morning or afternoon snack, and even as a dessert with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Ps. This is not a complicated, layered cake with multiple cake layers and cream cheese frosting. Instead, it’s an easy, one-layer, blueberry-packed cake—no need for a stand mixer, just a bowl, whisk, and cake pan.

Blueberries

You can use fresh or frozen blueberries. If you use frozen blueberries, add them to the cake batter while they are still frozen.

Also, your cake might take slightly longer to bake with frozen berries.

Lemon

The lemon blueberry cake should taste like lemon and blueberries, so we use lemon zest and fresh lemon juice.

If you like a milder lemon flavor, you can half the quantity of lemon zest and juice.

Vanilla

You can use vanilla extract or the seeds of a vanilla pod. The vanilla flavors the crumb of the cake, and it tastes delicious with the blueberries.

Flour

Standard all-purpose flour is all you need. However, if you want to make the cake more wholesome, you can use half wholewheat flour and half all-purpose flour.

To make the cake gluten-free, use a 1-to-1 gluten-free flour mixture.

Sugar

We use white sugar for our cakes. You can substitute brown sugar, coconut sugar, and palm sugar for white sugar.

Milk

You can use regular milk or plant milk. We use unsweetened soy milk.

Oil or butter

You can use neutral vegetable oil such as canola oil or sunflower seed oil interchangeably.

Or you can substitute unsalted butter or dairy-free butter for oil. If you use butter, multiply our oil amount by 1.25.

Baking powder

The baking powder helps the cake rise and get light and soft. Make sure your baking powder hasn’t been lying in your pantry for too long, as it might lose its rising abilities.

We recommend using unopened baking powder.

Salt

Salt is optional. You can add a pinch of sea salt or kosher salt if you like.

Preheat the oven to 350°F or 180°C. Line an 8 or 9 inch springform pan with parchment paper.

Note: a springform pan is one that opens on the side, which makes it easier to remove the cake once baked. You can use a regular cake pan; However, it’ll be a little more complicated to take the cake out.

In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the wet ingredients: grated lemon zest, lemon juice, milk, sugar, oil or melted butter, and vanilla extract.

Sift in the flour and baking powder.

Whisk wet and dry ingredients until most lumps are gone, and you have a smooth batter. It should take you about 1 minute with a manual whisk.

Tip: don’t overmix the batter, or your cake will turn out too compact, heavy, and gummy.

In a separate bowl, toss 1 1/2 cups of blueberries with a tablespoon of flour.

Tip: tossing blueberries with flour prevents them from sinking to the bottom of the pan once they are in the batter.

Add the blueberries to the cake batter and fold them in gently with a spatula.

Transfer the cake batter to the springform pan.

Add the remaining 1/2 cup of blueberries on top of the cake.

Bake in the oven at 350°F or 180°C for about 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out dry.

Let the cake cool down for 10 minutes in the cake pan before transferring it onto a wire rack to cool down completely.

Optionally, dust with powdered sugar or drizzle with our lemon glaze. Cut with a serrated knife.

Lemon blueberry pound cake

Don’t have a springform pan or cake pan? Bake a lemon blueberry pound cake instead.

It’s soft, moist, and packed with juicy blueberries. And the lemon glaze on top is finger-licking good.

Check out our lemon blueberry pound cake recipe.

Blueberry muffins

You can use the same recipe as our lemon blueberry cake (minus the lemon juice) to make gorgeous blueberry muffins.

They are easy to make and quick to bake, and you can bring them with you for a quick treat when you are out and about.

Check out our blueberry muffins recipe.

Easy Apple Cake

With a similar batter (without lemon), you can make a deliciously soft, easy, and moist apple cake. The process is the same as our lemon blueberry cake, except we substitute apples for blueberries and cinnamon for lemon.

This one is a reader’s favorite because it’s an absolute crowd-pleaser.

Check out our easy apple cake recipe.

Easy Pear Cake

Same batter, different fruit. In this one, it’s pears’ time to shine. Pear cake is probably the most underrated cake out there.

It’s incredibly and undoubtedly delicious! Soft, moist, sweet, and packed with pear and cinnamon flavor.

You are going to fall in love with this cake!

Check out our easy pear cake recipe.

Store this lemon blueberry cake under at room temperature cake dome or wrapped in plastic wrap for up to 5 days.

You can freze the cake for up to 3 months. To do so, let it cool down completely, then transfer into a freezer frendly plastic bag and freeze.

Thaw in the refrigerator over a few hours, or in the microwave with the thawing function.

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