Blueberry Cake

I had never used any kind of frozen berries before and wasn’t much aware of what all varieties were available in Chennai. The other day, I had gone to Nuts n Spices, Adyar and was browsing through stuffs available there. I happened to spot a pack of frozen blueberries and immediately without thinking much, I picked up a packet for Neha.

Now I had to think and look for recipes with it. The first in my list was a simple vanilla blueberry cake. Stay tuned to the blog for a couple of recipes with blueberry 🙂 I am quite happy with the texture and flavour of the cake. It’s super soft, moist and perfect. Happy to see me baking decent cakes. I am gaining confidence with each cake bake. 

Ingredients:

• All purpose flour 125 gm (1 cup)
• Corn flour 2 tbsp
• Salt apinch
• Sugar 100 gm (1/2 cup)
• Blueberries 1/2 cup
• Milk 120 ml (1/2 cup)
• Apple cider vinegar 2 tsp
• Baking soda 1/2 tsp
• Butter plus oil 60 ml (1/4 cup)
• Vanilla extract 1 tsp

Method:

• Preheat the oven at 170 degree celsius for atleast 10 minutes.
• Take a 6 inch cake tin and grease it with butter. Dust it thoroughly with flour and remove the excess flour.
• Sieve the flour, salt, baking soda for 3-4 times and put it in a big mixing bowl.
• Add apple cider vinegar to the milk and stir. It will curdle and form buttermilk.
• Measure around 1 tablespoon melted butter in a 60 ml cup and fill it up with any flavour less oil.
• Add this to the buttermilk. Add sugar to this mixture and whisk well till the sugar is fully dissolved.
• Add vanilla extract and mix well.
• Take some blueberries and dust it with a spoon of the above measured flour. 
• Add the liquid ingredients to the flour mixture and mix it gently with a spatula.
• Fold in half of the blueberries and stir it gently.
• Pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin and sprinkle the remaining blueberries on top.
• Tap it on the counter to remove the excess air bubbles.
• Bake the cake for 30-35 minutes or till a toothpick inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean.
• Take the cake tin out of the oven and allow it to cool for 7-8 minutes.

• Invert the cake on a wire rack and allow it to cool well.

• Slice and serve it with love.

Notes:

• You can use lemon extract instead of vanilla extract and some lemon zest for a different flavour.
• Do not thaw the frozen blue berries or else it will bleed.
• Its important to coat the berries with some flour to prevent it from sinking to the bottom of the cake.
• Let the cake cool well before you take it out of the cake tin, or else it might break from the centre.
• Also wait till the cake is sufficiently cool before slicing.