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Lemon Yogurt Cake with Blueberries

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Lemon Yogurt Cake with Blueberries

I had been seeing a few lemon yogurt cakes around that looked good and I was thinking that the rest of my meyer lemons would go well in one. Recently I have been trying to clear some space in my freezer and I came across some blueberries that I had frozen in the summer. I really like the lemon and blueberry flavour combo and I could not resist adding the blueberries to the lemon yogurt cake. With he cake down the only thing that was left was the topping. I was thinking about going with a simple lemon glaze when I came across a bookmark for a lemon blueberry cake with a limoncello glaze on Dragon’s Kitchen that sounded great! The lemon yogurt cake with blueberries was really easy to make, though it took a bit longer than I expected. (I think that was because I used still frozen blueberries.) The toothpick test worked and the cake came out perfectly baked even though it took a little longer. The cake was nice and light fluffy and moist and infused with blueberry and lemony goodness! The limoncello added a really nice zing to the lemon glaze that finished the cake off nicely. I think that I will be having this cake for breakfasts for the rest of the week and I am certainly looking forward to them.

Lemon Yogurt Cake with Blueberries

Lemon Yogurt Cake with Blueberries

Lemon Yogurt Cake with Blueberries

Prep Time: 20 minutes Cook Time: 1 hour Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes Servings: 6
ingredients
  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon lemon zest
  • 1 cup yogurt
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup blueberries
  • 1 cup confectioners sugar
  • 1 tablespoons lemon juice
  • 1 tablespoon limoncello (or more lemon juice)
  • lemon zest to garnish
directions
  1. Mix the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a bowl.
  2. Mix the lemon zest, yogurt, sugar, eggs, oil, vanilla extract in another bowl.
  3. Mix the wet and dry ingredients.
  4. Mix in the blueberries.
  5. Pour the batter into a greased 9 inch by 5 inch loaf pan.
  6. Bake in a preheated 350F/180C oven until a toothpick pushed into the center comes out clean, about an hour.
  7. Mix the confectioners sugar, lemon juice and limoncello and pour over the cake after it has cooled.
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  6. Christina Kim says

    Kevin, you are simply brilliant. You have managed to combine four of my favorite things — yogurt, blueberries, lemons, and cake! This will definitely become part of my dessert repertoire.

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  12. Minnie~Knits says

    We must have similar paletes or something; I noticed you like maple, rhubarb, sweet potatoes, crab meat…chicken salad…key lime pie…all my faves!

    I spent a LOT of time searching for granola recipes last spring, ended up improvising my own recipe and you know what I called it? Maple Pecan Granola. LOL it IS different than yours though, because I ended up using some cinnamon & sunflower seeds, too…It's a work in progress…I'm a granola freak…

    I also LOVE peanut butter & banana sandwiches, but had never thought to substitue nutella! DEFINITELY going to try that!!!

    Then I searched your blog for the term "Monte Cristo". Yay!!! You passed the test!

    Keep up the good work!

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  15. Mrs Ergül says

    Wow! I have made a similar one twice, once with lemon and another one with grapefruit! But I did without the glaze! What a good idea to incorporate some berries into it!

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  24. missy b. says

    **TIP!!!**

    If you flour the blueberries ahead of time they’ll keep their places better and not sink to the bottom..

    I’m SO making this cake, dude..

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  29. Natalie says

    I have this cake in the oven right now!!

    I had to make adjustments bc of what I had on hand…I hope it still turns out as great as yours looks!

    Instead of yogurt- I used sour cream.

    I had a little left in a mixed fruit frozen sack so i used thast- Raspberries, blackberries, strawberries and blueberries

    And for the glaze…I did not have any limoncello, however, I used 2 TBSP of plain lemon juice and a jigger of grey goose vodka YUMMY!!

    Thank you!!

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  30. Amanda says

    Oh dear, Kevin. I have to stop clicking on your page — I have to try everything on here and it’s going to make me balloon a gazillion pounds!

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  38. Joanne says

    I’m loving all of this lemon lately! It’s one of my favorite flavors to have in dessert and the lemon/blueberry combo is an especial favorite.

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  49. Allen of EOL says

    Love the glaze — when I saw the photo my eyes opened wide when I caught a glimpse of the stark white glaze contrasting the moist lemon-blueberry cake. Beautiful and delicious!

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  52. HappyTummy says

    hi kevin! this looks fantastic. i love the limoncello glaze!

    incidentally, all of the tuesdays with dorie bakers also baked a lemon-flavored cake this week–dorie’s French Yogurt Cake! it was delicious…but now that i look at yours, i’m kind of thinking blueberries would have made it better 🙂

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  54. Jennifer says

    My friend Kathy always brings me 3 huge gallon ziploc bags of blueberries every summer. What a nice find in your freezer! Mine were gone so quickly though…

    Love the recipe!

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  60. Lo says

    Nice, Kevin. I like the blueberry citrus combo. And yogurt cakes are so nice and moist, I’ll bet this was a winning combo!

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  63. Kevin says

    Chef Fresco: I used blueberries that I had frozen in the summer.

    Dan: I used a vanilla yogurt for even more vanilla flavour but plain works great as well.

    missy b. & Margaret: Thanks for the flour tip! I will definitaly try that next time.

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  74. Jan says

    What I want to know is, how do you stay so skinny when you make all this yummy food? You ought to look like a barn side. 🙂

    Seriously, great looking cake.

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  81. dhan says

    whether the difference between kefir and yogurt?
    Which is better between them?
    whether kefir has the same flavor of yogurt?
    It looks very tasty

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  82. Anonymous says

    I made this, and my family says it is very fresh-tasting. High-approval all-around. But my glaze came out too thin–next time I'll start with just 1 tablespoon of liquid and work my way up.

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