I have baked blueberry and lemon cake before, but this was my first time baking with blackberries and it turned out delicious. I created this cake with the basic ingredients and made it into a loaf cake. The blackberries in the cake add a great texture to the cake. The colors of the fruit in this cake is also beautiful! Perfect balance of lemon and blackberries.
Blackberry Lemon Cake
Ingredients
- 2 large eggs
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup extra virgin light olive oil
- 1/4 cup plain yogurt
- 2/3 cup buttermilk
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tbsp lemon zest
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup blackberries
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- Using a stand mixer or hand mixer mix together the eggs and sugar until well combined and batter becomes lighter in color.
- Add yogurt, buttermilk (I just used milk and added 1 tbsp of lemon juice to create my buttermilk), olive oil, vanilla extract, and lemon zest and mix.
- Add the dry ingredients: flour, baking soda, and baking powder and mix. Keep some flour for blackberries.
- Add blackberries into the remaining flour and stir into the batter. This will prevent the blackberries from floating to the bottom of the batter.
- Add batter to a lined 9×5 inch loaf pan and bake for 50-60 minutes.
Notes
If you dont have buttermilk, you can use milk and just add 1 tbsp of lemon juice and let it sit for few minutes and it will become buttermilk and this is exactly what I did for this recipe!