“When you bake with fruit, you often get beautiful colours dotted throughout the bakes,” says baker Jane Dunn who has just released her debut cookbook, named after her hugely popular blog, Jane’s Patisserie. “Combining berry and citrus flavours is always delicious too… lemon and raspberry, blackberry and lemon, or as in this cake, blueberry and lime. I adore it.
“Baking with blueberries always brings out their flavour and creates a delicious texture, and when topped with a simple buttercream frosting it’s even better.”
Blueberry lime loaf cake
Equipment
- 900g/2lb loaf tin
- Bowl
Ingredients
- 200 grams unsalted butter
- 200 grams caster sugar
- 200 grams self-raising flour plus 1 tbsp for dusting
- 4 eggs
- 1 lemon zest
- 200 grams fresh or frozen blueberries
Buttercream:
- 125 grams unsalted butter at room temperature
- 250 grams icing sugar
- Juice of 1 lime
For the decoration:
- 100 grams blueberries
- Lime zest
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/160°C fan and grease and line a 900g loaf tin with parchment paper.
- Put the butter and caster sugar into a bowl and beat until light and fluffy. Add the self-raising flour, eggs and lime zest to the bowl, and mix again until combined.
- Put the tablespoon of plain flour into a bowl and add the blueberries, mixing until they are coated (this stops the blueberries all sinking to the bottom of the cake). Fold the blueberries through the cake mixture, then pour into the prepared tin and bake for 50–55 minutes, or until baked through. Remove the cake from the oven, and leave to cool fully in the tin while you make the buttercream.
- Add the butter to a bowl and beat on its own for a few minutes to loosen and soften. Add the icing sugar and beat again until combined. Finally, add the lime juice and beat again.
- Pipe or spread the buttercream onto the loaf cake, then sprinkle over the blueberries and lime zest.
Nutrition
Jane’s Patisserie by Jane Dunn is published by Ebury Press. Photography by Ellis Parrinder.
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Dunn, Jane (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
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