Eggless Blueberry Lemon Cake – simple blueberry yogurt cake with lemon cream cheese frosting. Really refreshing and the perfect cake to celebrate any occasion!
Don’t you love how long the days are right now. Like I can go for a walk at 9 pm and it would still be totally bright. It just makes me so happy. Such long days make me feel like there’s actually a lot of time to test recipes and do other blog and house stuff. Well obviously hours in a day never change but when sun shines bright till 10 pm, it kinds of feels like that.
Lots of sunshine calls for fresh flavors like the ones in this Blueberry Lemon Cake. This is a match made in heaven and right now is the perfect time to use these 2 in desserts. Berries are in season and lemon is perfect for summer, so there really can’t be a better time. I made this cake for my parents anniversary 2 days back. We didn’t really do much that day but of course I had to make this cake. How can I let go of any birthday or anniversary without a homemade cake! At first I thought of making a chocolate cake since my dad loves chocolates (that’s where I get my chocolate addiction from!!) but my mom isn’t fond of chocolate and since it was their anniversary, I thought I should probably make something that they both like and that’s how I decided on this blueberry lemon cake.
This is a simple eggless blueberry yogurt cake topped with lemon cream cheese frosting. I made this eggless because I do get a lot of requests to post eggless cakes and I know I don’t do that often. So I hope all of you who love eggless bakes like this cake. To get a nice blueberry flavor in my cake, I pureed some fresh blueberries with plain yogurt and added to the batter. And of course I also added some blueberries in the end too.
This blueberry lemon cake is really easy to make and tastes so refreshing! My mom ate 2 big slices and that proves that the cake was pretty good, she is not a sweet person otherwise!
Method
In a bowl whisk together flour, salt and baking powder. Set aside.
Make blueberry yogurt – to a food processor add whisked plain yogurt, 1 tablespoon sugar and blueberries.
Pulse till everything is well combined. Set aside.
Using your stand or hand mixer, beat oil and sugar till combined. Then add vanilla extract and mix.
Add in the prepared blueberry yogurt and mix to combine.
Add the flour mix in 3 parts. Add 1st part and mix till just combined.
Then add milk and mix. Add the remaining flour alternating with milk and starting and ending with flour. Do not over-mix.
Fold in the blueberries. I tossed the blueberries in some flour so that they don’t sink to the bottom.
Pour batter into the 2 prepared pans. I added some extra blueberries on top, this is optional. Bake at 350 F degrees for around 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
While the cake is in the oven, make the frosting. Beat together butter and cream cheese till smooth and creamy.
Add powdered sugar, 1/2 cup at a time and mixing well after each addition.
Add lemon juice, lemon zest and lemon extract and mix well till everything is well combined and frosting is smooth. You may add little heavy cream or milk if you think the frosting isn’t too spreadable.
Once the cake is done, take it out of the oven and allow to cool on a wire rack.
Once the cake layers have completely cooled down, place one of the layers on your serving plate or turntable and apply a generous amount of frosting on top.
Place the other cake layer on top and some frosting on top.
Cover the cake with frosting on all sides. Decorate with fresh blueberries and lemon slices. I also used some fresh flowers!
* You may use store bought blueberry yogurt in this recipe. I only had plain yogurt so I added blueberries to make blueberry yogurt.
* Always use fresh lemon juice.
Eggless Blueberry Lemon Cake
Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 3/4 cup canola oil or use vegetable oil
- 1.25 cups granulated white sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 6 tablespoons milk I used 2% fat milk
- 1 cup fresh blueberries tossed in 1/2 tablespoon flour
blueberry yogurt
- 1 cup whisked plain yogurt
- 3/4 cup fresh blueberries
- 1 tablespoon granulated white sugar
Lemon Cream Cheese frosting
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
- 8 oz cream cheese softened
- 3 - 3.5 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract
- 2 teaspoons lemon zest
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice use fresh
Instructions
- In a bowl whisk together flour, salt and baking powder. Set aside.
- Make blueberry yogurt - to a food processor add whisked plain yogurt, 1 tablespoon sugar and blueberries. Pulse till everything is well combined. Set aside.
- Using your stand or hand mixer, beat oil and sugar till combined. Then add vanilla extract and mix.
- Add in the prepared blueberry yogurt and mix to combine.
- Add the flour mix in 3 parts, alternating with milk and starting and ending with flour. Do not over-mix.
- Toss fresh blueberries in 1/2 tablespoon flour and then fold them into the batter.
- Pour batter into the 2 prepared pans. I added some extra blueberries on top, this is optional.
- Bake at 350 F degrees for around 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Once the cake is done, remove from oven and transfer onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
- While the cake is in the oven, make the frosting. Beat together butter and cream cheese till smooth and creamy.
- Add powdered sugar, 1/2 cup at a time and mixing well after each addition.
- Add lemon juice, lemon zest and lemon extract and mix well till everything is well combined and frosting is smooth.
- You may add 1-2 teaspoons of heavy cream or milk if you think the frosting isn't too spreadable.
Assemble the cake
- Once the cake layers have completely cooled down, place one of the layers on your serving plate or turntable and apply a generous amount of frosting on top.
- Place the other cake layer on top and some frosting on top.
- Cover the cake with frosting on all sides, or you can do it like I did - just covered it with little frosting.
- Decorate with fresh blueberries, lemon slices and serve!
Nutrition
Eggless Lemon Blueberry Cake
Thanks for this recipe, I super liked the baked part of the cake. The frosting was both too liquid and too sweet (3 cups of powdered sugar) for me. Do you have any recommendations how to make it stick better but actually use less sugar?
I would suggest using whipped cream frosting then. Sugar is what makes cream cheese or American buttercream frosting thick. If you add less, then frosting will be too liquid. Also 3 cups here is pretty standard for frosting recipes.
Hi Manali
What’s is the other option for oil in this cake ? Can I use butter if yes how much in this recipe?
you can use butter but oil make is moister which I prefer.
How long should I bake if I put the entire batter together??
approx same time
Such an amazin looking cake …. can u pls suggest that whether we can half the recipe and make it a loaf cake ?
you may
Hi Manali,
The cake looks amazingly beautiful both from inside and outside 🙂 I would love to try this cake for my sister’s birthday who loves blueberries. Can we half the ingredients if we want to bake in one 6inch round pan? Thanks!
should be okay
The cake was delicious. Thank you for this amazing recipe.
Hi Manali
What size tins to use in the recipe please
Thanks
8-inch round pans
Hi Manali
Such a lip smacking recipe.I really wanna try this.
I have few questions
1st as I don’t get fresh blueberries can I use ready compote to make blueberry curd
2nd can I mix cream cheese with whipped cream and use. If yes then what will be the ratio of cream and cream cheese.
3rd can I add lemon juice and rind to the whipped cream
Thanx
you can try ready made compote. Hmm mixing cream cheese with whipped cream, sure you can but I can’t tell you the ratio since that will be a different frosting and I haven’t tried it. yes you can add lemon juice to whipped cream, no problem
Thank you for this recipe
I made it and it was awesome
This recipe turned out so well! 🙂
Thank you so much for sharing it Manali!