A sweet friend of ours is having a birthday this week and we had talked about what types of cakes we enjoy. We get to visit while our husbands have voice lessons for Parkinsons and we enjoy trading recipes and just just having some time to visit while our hubbies are practicing “talking with intent” in another room. Today i brought Peggy a lemon blueberry Bundt cake! Her face showed her excitement. Happy Birthday Peggy and hope you enjoy the cake. The frosting is a blueberry infused buttercream!
Ingredients
1 Duncan Hines Lemon cake mix
1 4 oz size lemon instant pudding mix
4 eggs at room temperature
1 cup water
1/3 cup oil
Pint of fresh blueberries or frozen
Spray a Bundt pan with Pam. Dust granulated sugar (instead of flour) which will give the cake a crunchy crust outside.
Wash and dry the blueberries. Divide blueberries in 2 equal parts. toss one of the half’s with about 1 teas of flour and set aside
Make cake using the pudding mix, oil, water and eggs! Beat well with mixer for about 2 min. Stir the blueberries in that were tossed with the flour into the cake batter. Pour into prepared baking pan. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for about 40-45 min or until cake tests done. Cool in pan for about 15-18 min and flip out onto serving plate!
Frosting
Bring the half pint of the blueberries to a boil with about 1/ 2 cup water and 1/3 cup granulated sugar. continue to cook blueberries until they are tender and begin to fall apart. Set aside and allow to cool. When cool, using a mesh colander pour blueberry mixture in and using back of spoon, begin to smash blueberries through the mesh until you have mashed them all through.
Set aside. Using 1 stick (8 oz) of softened butter, add 3 cups of powdered sugar to butter and beat until smooth adding the blueberry mixture 1 tables at a time until spreading consistency! Add 1 teas vanilla and continue beating until smooth. If needed, you can add milk or whipping cream to thin to spreading consistency! When cake is cool, drizzle frosting over cake. Store In fridge until ready to serve and remove an hr before serving. sprinkle a few leftover blueberries over top !
Chocolate Castles as wel 