Best 4 Blueberry Lemon Tea Cakes Recipes

BLUEBERRY-LEMON TEA CAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter nine 2 1/2- by-4-inch baking pans, and dust with flour, tapping out excess.
• Combine 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup lemon juice in a small saucepan over medium heat. Simmer, stirring occasionally, until sugar dissolves and syrup is thickened, about 4 minutes. Let stand while making cakes.
• Meanwhile, combine heavy cream, remaining 2 tablespoons lemon juice, and the vanilla in a bowl. Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and 1/4 teaspoon salt in another bowl.
• Beat butter, lemon zest, and remaining cup sugar with a mixer on medium speed until pale and fluffy. Reduce speed to low, and add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating with cream mixture, beginning and ending with flour. Gently fold in blueberries using a rubber spatula.
• Divide batter evenly among pans. Bake on a rimmed baking sheet until a toothpick inserted into the center of each comes out clean, about 30 minutes.
• Transfer pans to wire racks, and brush tops of cakes with lemon syrup. Let stand for 15 minutes. Turn out cakes from pans, and brush all over with remaining syrup. Let cool completely on wire racks.

LEMON-BLUEBERRY POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Grease and flour a 10-in. fluted tube pan. In a large bowl, cream the butter, cream cheese and sugar until blended. Add eggs and egg white, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in lemon zest and vanilla., Toss blueberries with 2 tablespoons flour. In another bowl, mix the remaining flour with baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with yogurt, beating after each addition just until combined. Fold in blueberry mixture. , Transfer batter to prepared pan. Bake 55-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes before removing to wire rack; cool completely., In a small bowl, mix confectioners' sugar and lemon juice until smooth. Drizzle over cake.

BLUEBERRY, ALMOND AND LEMON CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit/200 degrees Celsius. Grease a 9- or 8-inch/21-centimeter loaf pan with butter, line it with a parchment paper sling and butter the paper. Set the pan aside.
• Place butter, sugar, lemon zest and vanilla extract in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat on high speed for 3 to 4 minutes, until light, then lower speed to medium. Add eggs in three additions, scraping down the sides of the bowl a few times as necessary. The mix may split a little but don't worry: It'll come back together once you add the dry ingredients.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt and almond flour. With the stand mixer on low, add the dry ingredients in three additions, mixing just until no white specks remain. Fold in about 3/4 of the blueberries by hand, then scoop batter into the prepared loaf pan.
• Bake for 15 minutes, then sprinkle the remaining blueberries over the top of the cake. Return to the oven for another 15 to 20 minutes, until cake is golden brown but still uncooked. Cover loosely with foil and continue to cook for another 25 to 30 minutes (less for a 9-inch pan, more for an 8-inch pan), or until risen and cooked, and a knife inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean. Remove from oven and set aside in its pan to cool for 10 minutes before removing cake from pan and placing on a wire rack to cool completely.
• When cake is cool, make the icing: Add lemon juice and icing sugar to a bowl and whisk together until smooth, adding a bit more juice if necessary, just until the icing moves when you tilt the bowl. Pour over the cake and gently spread out. The blueberries on the top of the cake may bleed into the icing a little, but this will add to the look. Let icing set (about 30 minutes), slice and serve.

BLUEBERRY LEMON TEA CAKES

Steps:

• Get out your madeleine pan and set aside.
• Melt 5 1/2 tablespoons of butter in a saucepan. Set aside to cool.
• In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt and lemon zest. Set aside.
• In another medium bowl, combine the cooled butter, sugar and vanilla. Mix well. Add the eggs. Mix well and then set the bowl aside.
• In the same saucepan you used to melt the butter, melt an additional 1 tablespoon of butter. Set aside.
• Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Mix well until there are no dry bits of batter visible.
• With a pastry brush or using a spoon and your finger tips, grease the madeleine pan with the remaining 1 tablespoon of butter. Make sure each well is thoroughly greased but that the butter does not pool at the bottom of the well.
• Into each madeleine well, spoon about 1/2 tablespoon of batter. In the center of the batter spoon about 1/2 teaspoon of blueberry jam. Top with another 1/2 tablespoon of batter.
• Place the tin in the oven and bake for 4 minutes.
• Reduce the oven temperature to 350F and bake for another 4 minutes. The cakes are done when they are golden and spring back when you touch one gently with a fingertip.
• Allow the cakes to cool for 5 minutes, then remove from the pan and let them cool a bit more on a wire rack.
• Dust the cakes with confectioners sugar and serve.