Blueberry & Lemon Bundt Cake

If there’s a combination that works particularly well for cakes, it’s blueberries and lemons. The best proof of this is this delicious Blueberry & Lemon Bundt Cake! It’s a wonderfully moist cake, thanks to the berries, and extremely tasty. Not too sweet, just delicious! Just as a cake should be… right?!

Adding some fruit or berries to a cake is always a good idea – it tastes great and has a positive effect on the texture of the cake. Unfortunately, fruit and berries are seasonal products and therefore not available fresh all year round. Right?! Or let’s say, not always available at reasonable prices. Thanks to globalization, you can now get almost anything all year round these days.

But do you want to use imported fresh produce all year round? To be honest, we don’t. When strawberries are out of season in Germany, we don’t buy them – even if they’re on sale at the supermarket. Does this mean we never bake anything with fruit and berries in winter? Of course, we do, but we use fruit/berries that we’ve frozen ourselves in summer or that are available frozen at the supermarket.

Blueberries are the best example here. They are available all year round, but in summer they are usually better, cheaper, and keyboard. In winter, we hardly buy them fresh. Unless we really need them for decorations, but we try to avoid that. Saying that – we pretty much always have a bag of frozen blueberries in the freezer.

Frozen blueberries are perfect for baked goods, such as this simple bundt cake here. They’re always ready to use in the freezer and hardly ever go bad – a bowl of fresh blueberries in the fridge can easily turn into a little mold project after a few days if you’re not careful. That doesn’t happen with frozen berries. At most, they get a little freezer burn and maybe look a little less appealing – but you will not notice that when using them for a cake batter.

If you’re looking at the pictures here, and you think “but the photos show fresh blueberries” – think again! Those are freeze-dried blueberries. 😉 Another type of blueberry that keeps for a long time and is just as good for baking as fresh or frozen berries. In this recipe, they ended up as decoration on top of the cake instead of using them in the cake batter. If you don’t have any fresh berries on hand, this is always a good option to add flavors and some color.

There’s not much else to say about the preparation of this cake here. Make sure to grease the bundt cake pan well, so the cake comes out easily after baking and doesn’t break apart. If blueberries have settled at the bottom or the sides of the cake pan, they can sometimes stick to the metal and cause problems. This can be disastrous when removing the cake from the pan. To prevent that from happening, we recommend using silicone molds for bundt cake recipes. There may not be as many nice or fancy looking molds available, compared to the metal ones, but in 99% of cases, the cake comes out in one piece when using a silicone mold. ;P

With our XL Blueberry Cheesecake Muffins, you don’t have to worry about cake that breaks apart – the little ones are baked separately in paper liners and rarely cause any issues when you want to remove them from the paper. ;P Those muffins are also baked with frozen blueberries, which means you can bake them all year round as well.

I case prefer baking something with fresh blueberries from your garden in summer, for example, you should definitely check our Blueberry San Sebastian Cheesecake. An absolute dream of a cake! An extremely creamy cheesecake filling meets fresh blueberries, and the combination is simply magnificent! Highly recommended!

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