This is not a fancy cake when you can say, “Oh! I couldn’t take my eyes off”, unless you tastes it. I served it this Saturday to my gluten eating friends and they all loved the delicious mix of sweet and tangy in this lemon blue berry cake. I converted a regular lemon blueberry loaf recipe to gluten free which was published in Globe and mail and said, “making the ordinary, extraordinary”. There is 100% truth in it. I loved the recipe instantly when I read it but the amount of sugar left me wondering, (((3 cups))), I believe it was a printing mistake and I used half the amount.
The cake is deliciously moist and gets extremely moist when you glaze it. The ground almonds makes the texture more interesting. Plus, the fresh flavors of lemon and blueberries with the secret ingredient buttermilk are at their best. If you think that ground almonds will make the cake taste like almond flavoring then you are wrong. I have added just to give this gluten free cake, a great squidgy crumb texture. The cake can be stored, covered, at room temperature for three days (because of ground almonds) and it gets more moist than what you see in the picture below. So, it’s good to slide a piece of parchment paper in each slice for easy lifting later on. It freezes very well; wrap each slice in a grease proof paper and then store in freezer proof container.
Almond meal is available in the market but making at home is really easy, too. I ground them in a food processor, make sure you freeze the raw almonds for 8 hours or overnight before processing. Freezing avoid turning almonds into almond butter. You can use blanched almonds if you do not like your flour to be speckled. Most of the commercial almond meal is made from blanched almonds which has a more finer, lighter and pale yellowish texture. For light colored cakes or cookies I prefer to use blanched meal as you can see here. You can use any kind of almond meal regardless of what is asked in the recipe (the result will be slightly different, though).
LEMON BLUEBERRY BUTTERMILK POUND CAKE
source: Globe and mail
Ingredients:
165 g (1.5 cups) almond meal
207 g ( 1.5 cups) brown rice flour mix
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup unsalted butter
315 g (1.5 cups) white granulated sugar
3/4 cup butter milk (4 tbsp less)
5 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
4 tbsp lemon juice
2 cups blueberries
1.5 tbsp brown rice flour mix
Glaze
3 tbsp butter milk
4 tbsp lemon juice
2 1/4 to 21/2 cups icing sugar
Method:
Preheat oven to 325°. grease and flour two loaf pans.
Combine brown rice flour mix, almond meal, baking soda and salt. Stir in the zest and set aside.
In the bowl of a mixer, cream butter on medium high. Scrape down the bowl with a spatula. Add sugar and cream until fully incorporated.
Reduce the speed to low and add the eggs, one at a time, making sure that they are fully mixed in before adding the next. Turn up the speed of the mixer and beat until fluffy.
Return to medium and beat in lemon juice and vanilla extract. Turn the mixer back up for a few seconds to fluff it up again.
With the mixer on low(stir) speed, add 1/3 of the flour mixture, followed by 1/2 of buttermilk. Repeat, and add the final 1/3 cup of the flour and gently mix until just incorporated.
Pour about 1/3 cup batter in each loaf pan(to avoid blueberries sinking at the bottom and getting burnt, they will sink down though but will not burn). Stir brown rice flour mix in 1.5 cups of blue berries and stir in the remaining batter and split batter into both the loaf pans. Sprinkle the remaining half cup of blueberries on top.
Place in the preheated oven and bake for60 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Let the cake cool in the pan for15 minutes before turning it out onto a wire rack.
Drizzle with the thin glaze while still warm (I used only half the recipe of glaze). let cool before slicing.
Glaze
Mix the lemon juice and buttermilk together. Gradually whisk in icing sugar until the glaze is sweetened to your liking.
anne
3 cups ?! 😛 😀 That’s too much ! Good thing you cut it in half ! I love ground almond’s texture in cakes ! And using that brown rice flour makes it much more wonderful ! If I could find that brown rice flour here , I’ll give it a try ;D Anyway , no wonder you love this cake , it looks so moist and full of fruity bits ! I want to grab some of those luscious berries ! Did you buy the whole lot ?! lol
Balvinder Ubi
Its not just brown rice flour, it is a mix that I make by adding tapioca starch and potato starch.
Guru Uru
2 times in one month? That IS good 😀
And I can definitely see why, the blueberries look so juicy in the fluffy cake!
A winning cake my friend which has been added to my never ending list of makes!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Shobha
Blueberry cake looks nice..never made it…will try it out.
Sawsan
Oh how I wish we got blueberries here!
I love the fact that these were gluten free yet bursting with flavor
Balvinder Ubi
You can even make it with frozen berries, if you get there.
Shirley Tay
I wanna be your neighbour so I can savour all these goodies, dear! Balvinder, I’ve just posted my Clams & Mussels Pot. Shall we swap food?? Hahaha!
Balvinder Ubi
I am sorry Shirley, I don’t eat Clams but I can still share my cake with you.
Eri
It sure looks amazing!
Jenn Kendall
gorgeous pound cake! looks so delicious and moist, and i just love the combination of lemon and blueberries!
Angie's Recipes
A fabulous pound cake! I love it loaded with blueberries.
Swathi Iyer
Beautiful pound cake with riceflour and almond meal. Awesome gluten free treat.
PF CHANGS LOCAL
The cakes look Delicious. I am going to tweet this blog if ya don’t mind. 🙂
Juliana
Beautiful pound cake…like it with lots and lots of blueberries…
Hope you are enjoying your week Balvinder 🙂
Soni
Looks really moist and so so good!I also love blueberries and can imagine the delicious taste with the almond meal 🙂
Navaneetham Krishnan
Gorgeous and looks perfect. Wish we can get such great blueberries over here but mostly its not possible. I stay way out from the city and at my place, its not worth the price and the berries does not look great either. So I am contented using our local fruits to bake and make desserts.
cookingvarieties
hi balvinder. blueberries are so delicious and pairing with lemon sounds simply fantastic.
bookmarked with thanks, your recommendation tempts me.. ha ha have a nice day
kitchen queen
yummy pound cake.
Tina (PinayInTexas)
Fabulous pound cake, Balvinder! I can see why you love it!
Kitchen Belleicious
buttermilk goes fantastic in breads and cakes like this where it balances out the sweetness in the fruit! This cake looks amazing and so moist and sinful in fact
Cucina49
I can totally see why you would love this! Gorgeous, flavorful cake–blueberry/lemon really is a perfect flavor combo.
Anonymous
Yummy…could’nt stop eating it.
Balvinder Ubi
Thanks, My dear!
Is it you Surinder?
yummychunklet
What beautiful loaves!
Baker Street
buttermilk pound cake is my favorite, especially when its bursting with berries! Gorgeous loaf, Balvinder!
Spice up the Curry
cake looks delicious. nice one
Nami | Just One Cookbook
I’m a huge blueberry fan and your buttermilk pound cake with blueberries look TOTALLY awesome. I wish I have several slices for tomorrow morning. I can’t get enough of it. Blueberries are getting a little more expensive and I feel stressed. 😀 LOL. Must enjoy them now… Very nice recipe!
Indulge
The buttermilk and blueberries are a great combination. The cake looks yummy. Unfortunately mu kids do not like blueberries so much… Can we swap them with strawberries. Any idea if that would work?
Love Ash.
Balvinder Ubi
Sure You can, I haven’t baked a cake using strawberries but have made scones several times. If you are interested you can check out one of my blue berry scone recipe. I use the same for strawberries. Have a good friday!
Balvinder Ubi
I am giving you the link as you can’t search this recipe in the search box. http://simpleglutenfreekitchen.blogspot.ca/2011/08/blueberry.html
Lizzy Do
Wow, what gorgeous cakes!!! You have mastered gluten free baking, haven’t you??? I’m catching up with quite a few of your posts, but this masterpiece is my favorite 🙂
Judy
I am confused is it 3 cups of the brown rice mix or is there a typo?
Balvinder
I don’t see 3 cups of brown rice flour mix in my recipe.