Last night I wanted to do some baking before beginning an exercise class today, so when I saw this in a magazine, I knew that it was calling my name. So I made it. It is so light and refreshing that Randy and I both just kept going back for “just one more bite.”
Cake
2 sticks butter, at room temp
3 cups flour (plus 2 tables to sprinkle over the blueberries before adding them to the batter)
2 1/2 teas baking powder
1 1/4 teas salt
1 3/4 cup sugar
*2 tables lemon zest (optional)
1/4 cup vegetable oil
4 large eggs, at room temp
1 teas vanilla
3/4 cup buttermilk
2 cups fresh blueberries (about 2 pint)
*I added 2 tables fresh lemon zest to the batter before baking
For the Glaze
Whisk 1 table softened butter with 2 cups powdered sugar, 2 tables corn syrup and 2 teas fresh squeezed lemon juice. Add milk, 1 table at a time until it is of spreading consistency. I added 1 table fresh lemon zest. When cake is cooled, drizzle glaze over cake allowing to run down the sides of cake.
Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour a 12 cup bundt cake pan.
Whisk the 3 cups of flour with the salt and baking powder. In a separate bowl, beat 2 sticks butter with the sugar and oil with mixer on medium until fluffy, about 5 minutes. Turn mixer speed to low and beat in the eggs, one at a time, then mix in vanilla.
Add about 1/3 of the flour mixture and half of the buttermilk. Beat, scraping sides down as necessary. Add another 1/3 of the flour mixture and the remaining buttermilk. Mix just until combined. Add the remaining flour mixture by stirring it in. You do not want to overmix.
Toss the blueberries with the 2 tables of flour in a bowl. By hand, stir in the blueberries into mixture, just until incorporated. I used a spatula. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake about 1 hour, or until cake tests done. When cake is done, allow to sit in pan about 10 minutes and then turn out onto serving platter. Allow to sit about 30 minutes then drizzle glaze over the top.
Garnish with fresh berries if desired.
Just finished watching Donald Trump answer questions from reporters on TV. As I sat here listening, so many thoughts came over me. Hearing him talk of how American can be great again, brings hope to me. But it cannot happen overnight or without change in each and every home. I have never really been very politically involved, which as a Christian, I should be ashamed. We sit here complaining about how American has become a country without God in our values, schools and communities. This summer I heard our daughter say, “oh, we don’t pay attention to much to who is even running, because it just doesn’t effect us”. I said the same thing for years, as our kids were growing up and feeling that it just didn’t matter too much who was leading our country. It makes me sad that I didn’t teach our children that voting was a privilege and honor. We drove by our church school this morning after the service. As I looked at it, it came to my mind that I had never heard about any church school which had had a shooting incident. Why is that? Do our leaders think about the fact that yes, churches are not perfect, nor or their schools. But as parents, shouldn’t we realize that the Godly values that are taught in Biblical based schools teach not only respect for others, but for the student themselves. Maybe the faith based schools have more accountability, more discipline and require more from the students? That everyone must answer for their decisions?
Chocolate Castles 