Summer Blueberry Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour an 8 inch square pan.
• Cream butter or margarine and 1/2 cup sugar until fluffy. Add salt and vanilla. Separate eggs and reserve the whites. Add egg yolks to the sugar mixture; beat until creamy.
• Combine 1 1/2 cups flour and baking powder; add alternately with milk to egg yolk mixture. Coat berries with 1 tablespoon flour and add to batter.
• In a separate bowl, beat whites until soft peaks form. Add 1/4 cup of sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, and beat until stiff peaks form. Fold egg whites into batter. Pour into prepared pan. Sprinkle top with remaining 1 tablespoon sugar.
• Bake for 50 minutes, or until cake tests done.

Steps:

• Make Filling: Put 1 cup of blueberries, sugar and 1 Tbsp water in a medium saucepan. Simmer over low heat until it becomes liquid. Mix remaining water and cornstarch and add to pan, cooking until it comes to a boil. Add the butter and cinnamon, stirring until the butter is melted, then add the rest of the blueberries. Cook for another minute, take off the heat and add the lemon zest. Set aside to cool.
• Make Cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9" x 13" cake pan (or use a cooking spray with flour).
• Put the cake mix, sour cream, milk, oil, eggs and vanilla in a large mixing bowl. Mix for 1 minute on low speed. Scrape down the bowl and mix on med-high speed for another 2 minutes.
• Pour cake batter into the prepared pan. Using 1/2 of the blueberry filling, put dollops of the filling on the batter and swirl lightly with a knife. Bake the cake until it is light brown and starts to pull away from the sides of the pan, 35-40 minutes.
• Cool cake and spread the rest of the blueberry filling on top.
• Make frosting: Using chilled bowl and beaters, whip the cream until soft peaks form. Add vanilla, then the sugar while continung to beat until stiff peaks form.
• Spread topping on cooled cake.
• Serve with additional berries, if desired.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 8x8-inch pan.
• Sift flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt together in a large bowl. Beat shortening in a separate bowl until creamy; stir into flour mixture, alternating with milk. Beat flour-shortening mixture until mixed, about 2 minutes. Add egg and beat until mixed, about 1 minute.
• Combine lemon zest with blueberries in a bowl; fold into batter. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 50 minutes.