Friday, October 10, 2014

Blueberry Cake

Blueberry Butter Cake


Ingredients:

180g butter, softened
130g caster sugar

zest of 2 oranges
250g self-raising flour

pinch of salt
4 eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla extract 
95g sour cream 
50g fresh milk
120g fresh blueberries

  • Preheat oven to 170 degrees C.  Grease a 20cm round pan; line base with baking paper.
  • In a bowl, rub the sugar and orange zest together with your fingertips until the sugar is moist and the fragrance of orange strong.  Set aside.
  • Sift flour together with salt.  Set aside.
  • Combine sour cream and milk together in a cup,  Set aside.
  • Beat butter with an electric mixer for about a minute and gradually add in sugar mixture,  Beat until light and fluffy.
  • Add in eggs, one at a time, beating until just combined between additions. Then add in vanilla extract.
  • Fold in flour, alternately with the sour cream mixture, beginning and ending with flour.  Genty, stir in blueberries.
  • Pour batter into the prepared pan.
  • Bake for about 55 minutes or until a wooden skewer comes out clean when inserted into the centre of the cake.
  • Leave the cake in the pan for 10 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool.

6 comments:

  1. Veron..Happy Birthday...thought this is the birthday cake :) I love all the cakes you baked...semua very moist :) KIV this too :)

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    1. Hi Elin, I never baked birthday cakes for myself. This blueberry cake was from last week. Got too many blueberries sitting in my fridge, no one ate so I put them in the cake. Still not 'laku' and had to give away the cake :-(

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  2. Veronica, that is a lovely slice of cake! I should really try baking with blueberries. I guess I am too stingy hah..hah...

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    1. I also very kedekut, will only buy blueberries when they are cheap. Now they are only about $2+ per punnet.

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  3. Sweet, tangy and with fresh berries..this cake must be amazing, Veronica.

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  4. This looks gorgeously versatile! I can picture lots of different fruits in this :D

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