This moist Lemon Blackberry Pound Cake is so buttery, flavorful, and ideal for summer time! Do-it-yourself lemon pound cake is swirled with recent blackberries and blackberry preserves on this incredible dessert.
Lemon Blackberry Cake Elements
This cake is loosely primarily based on our basic pound cake recipe, however with the addition of lemon, and a blackberry swirl. *Discover full, printable recipe under.
- Unsalted Butter (We add the salt individually)
- Sugar
- Eggs
- All Goal Flour
- Baking Powder and Salt
- Lemon Juice and Lemon Zest
- Lemon Extract, for an added increase of lemon taste
- Milk (we like 2 % or entire milk)
- Blackberry Preserves (we used seedless, jam is okay additionally)
- Recent Blackberries (we’ve not tried with frozen blackberries however that ought to work additionally, simply as with our lemon blueberry cake).
The best way to Make Lemon Blackberry Pound Cake
On this recipe, we’re making a easy Lemon Pound Cake. The lemon juice within the recipe makes it additional tender, simply as with a lemon buttermilk cake. (Do you know that lemon juice + milk is an alternative to buttermilk?)
What makes the pound cake distinctive is the blackberry swirl within the middle. Simply as with a few of our different swirled or marbled cake recipes, we used seedless preserves for this step. We reserved a little bit of the lemon pound cake batter, and mixed it with blackberry preserves and recent, sliced blackberries.
To place all of it collectively, we layered the lemon pound cake batter with the blackberry batter. The mixture of lemon and blackberries so refreshing, and the cake has an exquisite texture. You’ll adore it!
Recipe FAQs
Extra Berry Muffins
Along with our assortment of pound desserts and bundt desserts, we’ve got many extra berry desserts so that you can attempt as nicely! A few of our favorites are our selfmade strawberry cake, lemon blueberry pound cake, berry chantilly cake, and almond raspberry swirl cake.
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Grease and flour a tube pan or bundt pan. Preheat oven to 350 levels F
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Wash and dry 10-12 recent blackberries and slice into small pieces– Chances are you’ll discover a white “core” within the center- it’s edible and pretty comfortable, however you may slice round it if you would like. Set sliced berries to the facet.
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In a separate bowl, whisk the all function flour, salt, and baking powder for 30 seconds to mix. Put aside for later.
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In a measuring cup or small bowl, add the milk, lemon juice, lemon extract, and lemon zest. Put aside for later.
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Cream the softened butter with the paddle attachment in your mixer on medium pace till clean. Step by step add the sugar and blend till lightened in colour and fluffy 4 to five minutes.
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Add the eggs one after the other, mixing after every till the yellow of the yolk blends in.
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With the mixer on low pace, add the flour combination alternately with the milk combination. Start and finish with the dry components. We do three additions of the flour combination and two of the milk combination. Combine simply till blended. * Do not add to pan but.
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Scoop â…“ cup of blackberry jam right into a small bowl and provides it an excellent stir to loosen it a bit.
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Add ½ cup of cake batter to the bowl of blackberry jam and stir to mix. I additionally added a contact of pink coloring gel to brighten the colour a bit, however that is non-obligatory. Stir the sliced blackberries.
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Scoop about half of the lemon batter (roughly 3.5 cups or so) into the underside of the ready bundt pan and flippantly clean it with the again of a spoon to stage (or faucet the facet of the pan to stage it).
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Subsequent, layer on the blackberry batter barely smoothing to even out. You possibly can sprinkle on a number of sliced blackberries if you happen to see any areas that want it. I believe it’s best to maintain the recent blueberries from touching the facet of the pan when attainable.
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Layer on the remaining lemon batter. Faucet the edges of the pan to clean/stage every little thing out, or gently clean the highest with the again of a spoon.
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Bake at 350 levels for 60-70 minutes or till a toothpick comes out clear (or with only a few crumbs connected.) Baking occasions can range and so peek in because it approaches the 1 hour mark. If the highest of the cake begins to get too darkish, cowl loosely with a chunk of aluminum foil. (Ours took nearer to 70 minutes to complete baking).
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This recipe makes roughly 8 cups of batter.
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Enable to chill within the pan for about 10 minutes earlier than turning out onto serving plate.
For the Simple Lemon Glaze
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Mix components in a bowl and stir till clean. If too skinny, add a bit extra sugar, if too thick, add a bit extra milk.
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Apply the glaze to the cooled cake utilizing a spoon, or for extra management, spoon right into a disposable piping bag with the tip snipped away and drizzle over the cake.
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As an non-obligatory step, after glazing the cake, we flippantly tapped a little bit of confectioners sugar by way of a tremendous mesh strainer excessive of the cake.
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For garnish, high with recent blackberries and thinly sliced lemon.
Storage
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Whereas I do not consider this as a extremely perishable dessert, to be on the protected facet, I might refrigerate the leftovers in an hermetic container or sealed cake field, and so forth. For the easiest taste and texture, take away the cake from the fridge a minimum of a few hours earlier than serving because the cake will change into extra agency when chilly (as a result of butter within the recipe).
Lemon Extract There are numerous manufacturers of Lemon Extract- we use McCormick most frequently. Just remember to odor the extract earlier than utilizing as typically it could possibly go dangerous. It ought to odor lemony ;0)
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