Lemon curd & blueberry loaf cake
By Sarah Cook
Cooking time
Prep: 20 mins Cook: 1 hr, 15 minsSkill level
EasyServings
Cuts into 8-10 slicesKids can help make this simple springtime treat - delicious with extra lemon curd and yogurt as a pud, or serve with a cuppa
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Un-iced cake can be frozen
Nutrition per serving (8)
- kcalories
- 663
- protein
- 10g
- carbs
- 96g
- fat
- 30g
- saturates
- 16g
- fibre
- 1g
- sugar
- 65g
- salt
- 0.86g
Ingredients
- 175g softened butter, plus extra for greasing
- 500ml tub Greek yogurt (you need 100ml/3½ fl oz in the cake, the rest to serve)
- 300g jar good lemon curd (you need 2 tbsp in the cake, the rest to serve)
- 3 eggs
- zest and juice 1 lemon, plus extra zest to serve, if you like
- 200g self-raising flour
- 175g golden caster sugar
- 200g punnet of blueberries (you need 85g/3oz in the cake, the rest to serve)
- 140g icing sugar
- edible flowers, such as purple or yellow primroses, to serve (optional)
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Method
- Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Grease a 2lb loaf tin and line with a long strip of baking parchment. Put 100g yogurt, 2 tbsp lemon curd, the softened butter, eggs, lemon zest, flour and caster sugar into a large mixing bowl. Quickly mix with an electric whisk until the batter just comes together. Scrape half into the prepared tin. Weigh 85g blueberries from the punnet and sprinkle half into the tin, scrape the rest of the batter on top, then scatter the other half of the 85g berries on top. Bake for 1 hr 10 mins-1 hr 15 mins until golden, and a skewer poked into the centre comes out clean.
- Cool in the tin, then carefully lift onto a serving plate to ice. Sift the icing sugar into a bowl and stir in enough lemon juice to make a thick, smooth icing. Spread over the top of the cake, then decorate with lemon zest and edible flowers, if you like. Serve in slices with extra lemon curd, Greek yogurt and blueberries.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, March 2010
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
I used frozen blueberries (defrosted) rather than fresh so maybe that's where I went wrong. They all sank to the bottom and it was quite wet because of this. The cake itself i thought was a bit stodgy and perhaps too buttery also. Saying that, my partner loved it, he ate the whole thing in two days with yogurt and curd on the side. I don't think i'd make it again, but gave it two stars as an average of our opinions!
Can anyone help with this recipe pls? Never have baking disasters (plenty others in life!) but have done this cake twice and can't get it to work. Like a few other contributors, it has turned out dense and stodgy in the middle. Cooked it a bit longer the 2nd time but not much improvement. Its not undercooked in the middle, as such, just stodgy. Nothing wrong with oven etc as have baked successfully in between. Love the ingredients so would like to get it right. I noticed it curdled slightly both times. Interestlingy, didn't have the problem of fruit dropping to the bottom like other people had! Thanks for any input!
Made this today for fathers day on sunday with great success. Only thing different I did was to put half the lemon juice in the cake and rest in the icing and added 1tbs lemon curd to icing also. As most comments seem to be that the blueberries sunk to bottom of the cake I rolled the berries in flour before adding them and it worked so well that the 2nd addition was still on the top of the cake when it came out of the oven. Also put some crystalized orange and lemon slices when finished - fantastic!
Love this cake and a really easy recipe. I added the eggs and flour in two batches and my blueberries didn't sink to the bottom. But I did have to cook the cake for quite a lot longer than stated. It was starting to look very brown on the top so I just turned the oven down. I was planning on serving it with the yoghurt and blueberries but when I went to my local Asda I saw they had a new product in, Limencello cream! So I served my cake topped with that and fresh blueberries! Gorgeous!!!!
