This blueberry yogurt pound cake is moist and fluffy with a fragile crumb and trace of orange zest! Dusted with powdered sugar, it’s excellent for dessert or to get pleasure from with a cup of tea or espresso.

 

This blueberry yogurt pound cake is a light-weight and refreshing cake for spring or summer season! It’s the very best mixture of my straightforward yogurt cake and recipe for blueberry cake with a touch of orange zest like my favourite Italian orange cake!

Utilizing yogurt within the cake makes it moist but not too overly dense and heavy. The candy juicy blueberries add a burst of freshness and makes this a blueberry recipe everybody must strive for brunch or dessert!

Recipe Substances

• Butter softened: I exploit salted butter that has been softened to room temperature.
• Granulated sugar: This provides sweetness to the pound cake.
• Eggs: I used three massive eggs, additionally at room temperature. 
• All-purpose flour: This kind of flour provides the very best texture for a pound cake.
• Baking soda: Provides raise and rise since this cake doesn’t use yeast.
• Salt: Only a pinch if utilizing salted butter but when utilizing unsalted butter then add ½ teaspoon.
• Blueberries: Contemporary blueberries or frozen blueberries can be utilized. Don’t thaw frozen blueberries.
• Plain yogurt: As a substitute of milk, this blueberry pound cake makes use of yogurt for a moist, dense texture. 
• Orange juice: I want freshly squeezed orange juice, in any other case your cake might be overly candy.
• Orange zest: The zest of 1 orange provides the right burst of taste.
• Powdered sugar: Additionally known as confectioners sugar, that is used to mud the highest of the cake earlier than serving.

Variations

• Add-ins: Add in white chocolate chips or chopped nuts.
• Zest: Substitute orange juice and orange zest for recent lemon juice and lemon zest which is a well-liked pairing like in these lemon glazed blueberry baked donuts.
• Glaze: Add a easy icing sugar or citrus glaze on prime. You could possibly even add a crumb topping like I do in my lemon blueberry scones! 
• Yogurt substitute: Should you don’t have any yogurt, strive bitter cream! 

Make Blueberry Yogurt Pound Cake

To start out, in a big bowl or stand mixer utilizing an electrical mixer, cream the butter on medium pace till fluffy, add the sugar and beat till fluffy and light-weight, beat within the eggs separately.

Subsequent, in a medium bowl whisk collectively the flour, baking soda and salt, fold within the blueberries.

In a separate bowl, stir collectively the moist elements together with the yogurt, orange juice and zest.

Now, utilizing a rubber spatula, alternately fold the dry elements and the orange juice moist combination into the creamed butter combination. For the very best tender texture, fold gently and don’t over stir the batter.

Switch the cake batter to the ready bundt pan, easy the highest of the batter and bake till a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clear.

Cool for quarter-hour within the pan then take away to a wire rack to chill fully. Mud with powdered sugar earlier than serving.

Retailer Blueberry Pound Cake

Retailer leftover blueberry and yogurt pound cake in an hermetic container at room temperature for as much as 3 days. You may also freeze leftovers by wrapping slices tightly in plastic wrap then foil. Retailer in an hermetic container or freezer bag for as much as 3 months. Thaw wrapped at room temperature then get pleasure from. 

Can I exploit oil as an alternative of butter?

I like to make use of butter in cake for the wealthy style and whereas often you may substitute olive oil or vegetable oil for butter, on this case since we’re creaming the butter first, I don’t advocate the substitute. Creaming the butter provides a light-weight and ethereal texture to the cake which may’t be accomplished with oil. 

forestall blueberries from sinking to the underside of the cake?

This recipe has you toss the blueberries with the flour combination which ought to forestall them from sinking! Don’t neglect this step. 

Extra Blueberry Dessert Recipes

The scrumptious Blueberry Pound Cake is ideal for dessert and even brunch! I hope you get pleasure from it too.

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