Story: Blueberry and Lemon sour cream cake
Episode: Episode 7
Presenter: Trevor Cochrane & Natalie Locke
Air Date: 20th March 2022

Blueberry, Lemon And Sour Cream Cake

Ingredients:

• 3 cups (450g) plain flour.
• 1/2 teaspoon salt.
• 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda.
• 3 eggs.
• 2 cups caster sugar.
• 250g unsalted butter, at room temperature, in chunks.
• 1 cup sour cream.
• 3 heaped teaspoons finely chopped lemon zest.
• 2 1/2 tablespoons of strained lemon juice.
• 200g fresh or frozen blueberries.
• extra plain flour, for coating the tin and dusting the berries.

Lemon Glaze
Ingredients:

• 1 cup (160g) icing sugar mixture, sifted
• 1/4 cup (60ml) strained lemon juice
• 30g melted unsalted butter
• Icing sugar, for dusting

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 160C. Butter and flour a 24 – 25cm bundt tin.
• Whiz the flour.
• Salt and bicarbonate of soda in a large food processor until they’re well mixed, then tip them into a bowl.
• Put the eggs and sugar into the processor and whiz them for a minute.
• Add the butter and process the mixture for another minute until it’s thick and creamy.
• In a small bowl, whisk together the sour cream and lemon zest and juice, then pour this into the mixture in the processor.
• Whiz the whole lot for 10 seconds, then add the reserved flour mixture and pulse with quick on/off bursts, stopping and scraping down the sides once or twice until it’s just combined.
• Toss the blueberries in a dessert spoonful of flour, so they’re lightly coated.
• Remove the bowl from the processor and gently use a rubber spatula to stir in the blueberries.
• Spoon the batter into the prepared tin and smooth the surface.
• Bake it for 1 1/4 hours, or until a fine skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean. When it’s ready, take the cake out of the oven, sit it on a cooling rack, and leave it to settle in the tin for 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, mix all the glaze ingredients in a bowl until they’re smooth.
• Using a thin palette knife, carefully loosen the edges of the cake.
• Invert the cake onto the cooling rack and gently ease off the tin.
• To catch any drips, brush the cake all over the glaze with a plate underneath.
• Keep brushing on layers of glaze until there is none left – the cake will slowly absorb it.
• Gently transfer it to a stand or plate and dust it with icing sugar to serve the cake.

Natalie Locke Choice of Charity: Share The Dignity
https://www.sharethedignity.org.au/

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We assist those in need by collecting hundreds of thousands of period products each year through collection drives and campaigns.