Blueberry soured cream cake with cheesecake frosting

Blueberry soured cream cake with cheesecake frosting

The blueberries in this recipe will burst in your mouth as you bite into your slice. The cake is delicious with a cup of tea, or served as an impressive dessert

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Cuts into 10 slices

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 25 - 35 mins

Cook time

Cook 50 mins

Freezable

Can be frozen when uniced

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to fan160C/ conventional 180C/gas 4 and butter and line the base of a loose-based 22cm round cake tin with non-stick baking paper or reusable Bake-o-glide.
  2. Put the butter, sugar, eggs,flour, baking powder and vanilla in a bowl. Beat with a wooden spoon for 2-3 minutes, or with a hand electric beater for 1-2 minutes, until lighter in colour and well mixed. Beat in 4 tbsp soured cream, then stir in half the blueberries with a large spoon.
  3. Tip the mixture into the tin and spread it level. Bake for 50 minutes until it is risen, feels firm to the touch and springs back when lightly pressed. Cool for 10 minutes, then take out of the tin and peel off the paper or lining. Leave to finish cooling on a wire rack.
  4. To make the frosting, beat the soft cheese with the icing sugar and the remaining soured cream in a bowl until smooth and creamy. Spread over the top of the cooled cake (don't be impatient as the frosting will melt if the cake is too warm) and scatter with the remaining blueberries. The cake will keep in the fridge for a couple of days. Bring it to room temperature for about an hour before serving.

Per serving

469 kcalories, protein 6g, carbohydrate 50g, fat 29 g, saturated fat 17g, fibre 1g, sugar 29g, salt 0.93 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, May 2003.

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  • 10 February 2012

    cynthprc commented on this recipe

    So easy and quick to make just love all in one mixtures, it's in the oven as we speak

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  • 14 February 2012

    ortic rated and commented on this recipe

    1 stars

    Made twice now and both times cake sank shortly after removing from oven, even baked for ten Min more second time round and still sank! So disappointing as made for a leaving cake for work colleague and for surprise for partner. Tasted ok, but more like a sponge pudding than a cake. Won't make again.

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  • 16 February 2012

    Ines commented on this recipe

    I've made this cake twice and both times it was a great success. Recommended!

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  • 16 February 2012

    Ines rated this recipe

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  • 16 February 2012

    Pagansam commented on this recipe

    I made this for our anniversary/valentine's day this week- Like many above, I added raspberries and it turned out beautifully. I used red icing to decorate 'Happy' at the top and 'Anniversary' at the bottom and then iced a red heart in the middle. Then arranged the blueberries and raspberries around it all which sounds busy but actually turned out stunning. I even posted it on FB and got a lot of great comments. That's two for two cakes I've made off this site which have been fantastic.

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  • 16 February 2012

    Pagansam rated this recipe

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  • 16 February 2012

    Willfergus commented on this recipe

    Very good cake....made it with the best blueberries in the world (from Canada) and it was actually delicious. Camasino Team

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  • 18 March 2012

    evalazarus commented on this recipe

    i added white chocolate and strawberrys! :) this cake is awesome!! here is my altered recipe! x http://evalazarus.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/white-chocolate-blueberry-sponge-cake.html

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  • 18 March 2012

    evalazarus rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Oh...I have also made this cake twice it has total wow factor and is soooooooooooooooooo easy!!

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  • 23 March 2012

    Mrs N rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Totally love this cake! Have made twice now, second time with buttermilk as forgot to buy soured cream and worked just fine. Defnitely takes longer to cook, unless you split the mix between 2 900g loaf tins.

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  • 24 March 2012

    JRScott rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This went down a treat with my guests and was simple to make. The icing didn't really set but was nevertheless delicious with grated lemon zest mixed in

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  • 08 April 2012

    Kar30 rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Made this today for Easter lunch. Really nice! Agree that it needed longer cooking time. After 50 mins at 160C I covered the top with greasepoof paper for another 15 mins.

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  • 08 April 2012

    Weeblondee commented on this recipe

    I added a couple of tablespoons of lemon curd and the zest of one lemon to the sponge before splitting the batter into two tins. I then sandwiched them back together with my homemade lemon curd in the middle, it was divine! The only thing I didn't think was thick enough was the cheesecake topping, so I used my fail proof cream cheese topping from hummingbird bakery book, 300g icing sugar, 125g cream cheese and 50g soft butter and also added the juice of the lemon.... What a delight!

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  • 11 April 2012

    Smith32 commented on this recipe

    Used frozen fruits of the forest berries from Asda instead of blueberries (just stirred them straight in). Then used double (rather than sour) cream for the topping and defrosted berries for the topping. Went down a treat over Easter!

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  • 24 April 2012

    S.mac commented on this recipe

    I have made this cake several times and everyone who has tried it has loved it. One of my friend's loved it so much she has asked me to make it as a tier for her wedding cake (eeek!) I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to increase the measurements for a 12'' cake (34.5cm))?

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  • 05 May 2012

    janeduncanl commented on this recipe

    Just got this out the oven and its not risen and its sunk in. Did everything as directed.

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  • 05 May 2012

    janeduncanl rated this recipe

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  • 22 May 2012

    Denise rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This has to be the easiest cake I've ever made, took slightly longer to cook than stated, but I baked it at a lower heat because my oven is quite hot. Made this for an afternoon tea and it went down a treat, probably the highlight! It was absolutely delicious and disappeared in a flash. Will definitely make this again soon.

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  • 25 May 2012

    supaluc commented on this recipe

    This was a ver delicious cake...i doubled the amount of blueberries and put them on top so when baked ran through the cake and not all at the bottom. Light, moist and lasted all of a day :-) I did however have a problem with the icing... used full fat cream cheese as normally more stable but it went to liquid so had to add butter and cornflour and lemon in a last minute rescue attemp...luckily it tasted great!

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  • 10 June 2012

    SabinaP rated this recipe

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Cuts into 10 slices

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 25 - 35 mins

Cook time

Cook 50 mins

Freezable

Can be frozen when uniced

Hard to resist

Ingredients

CHEESECAKE FROSTING

  • 200g tub Philadelphia cheese
  • 100g icing sugar
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Per serving

469 kcalories, protein 6g, carbohydrate 50g, fat 29 g, saturated fat 17g, fibre 1g, sugar 29g, salt 0.93 g

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