
Kids 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
- Un-iced cake can be frozen
Nutrition: per serving (8)
- kcal663
- fat30g
- saturates16g
- carbs96g
- sugars65g
- fibre1g
- protein10g
- salt0.86g
Ingredients
- 175g softened butter, plus extra for greasing
Butter
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- 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
Egg
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- zest and juice 1 lemon, plus extra zest to serve, if you like
Lemon
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- 200g self-raising flour
- 175g golden caster sugar
- 200g punnet of blueberries (you need 85g/3oz in the cake, the rest to serve)
Blueberry
bloo-bear-eeBlueberries are one of the few edibles native to North America and credited with being…
- 140g icing sugar
- edible flowers, such as purple or yellow primroses, to serve (optional)
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.
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