Super quick to whip up, this ultra moist Blueberry Lemon Yoghurt Cake is loaded with fresh blueberries and bright lemon flavours. This is a lovely cake for all occasions! Yoghurt keeps the cake moist and adds a lovely tang too. This is the same batter I also use for this Lemon Cake and Strawberry Cake.
After a show stopper Blueberry Cake? Try this one – 3 layers, studded with blueberries, plus a lemon cream cheese frosting!
Sneaking in a quick blueberry recipe before the prices start hiking up again!!
I get childishly excited when berries come into season. Specifically, blueberries. Raspberries never seem to be a bargain – or is it just me?? You’ve never seen a raspberry specific recipe on my site for exactly that reason. Also because, to be honest, raspberries sold in shops here in Sydney are not that great. Too tart, no juicy enough and not much flavour. My only memory of truly great fresh raspberries here in Australia was in Tasmania.
So for me, raspberries are typically reserved for decorative purposes only. Used sparsely.
Blueberries, on the other hand…. when they are in season, they are so great! Juicy, sweet, plump, and just begging to be popped into your mouth by the handful.
OR – loading up a cake with them. 🙂
Specifically, this lovely Blueberry Lemon Yoghurt Cake that is astonishingly quick to make. No creaming butter, it’s a dump-and-mix-with-a-wooden-spoon cake.
The “secret ingredient” in this recipe – albeit not so secret because it’s in the recipe name – is yoghurt. That’s what makes this cake so incredibly moist. It’s not the yoghurt itself that makes the cake moist. The reason yoghurt in cake / muffins etc makes the crumb moist is because the more flour in a batter, the drier the cake is (all other things being equal). Yoghurt thickens the batter, meaning less flour is required to make the batter thick enough to allow the baking powder to make the cake rise.
In this particular case, the yoghurt makes the cake moist and the sourness adds to the bright lemony flavours!
This cake is loaded with blueberries. 3 whole punnets (375g/12 oz). It’s as much as I could pack into it without compromising the rise of the cake.
This Blueberry lemon Yoghurt Cake is a complete and utter celebration of blueberries being in season because at no other time of the year will you find me making this with fresh blueberries. But don’t worry! This is great made with frozen too, I made this one in the photos with frozen blueberries, and I’ve included directions in the recipe. – Nagi x
More afternoon tea favourites
Cinnamon Swirl Bread – easy, no yeast!
Cheese, Herb and Garlic Loaf or Zucchini Cheese Loaf– quick bread, no yeast
Whole Orange Cake – super easy and yes, with whole oranges!
Savoury Cheese Muffins or Cornbread Muffins (personal fave😇)
And more blueberry recipes
In case you’re lucky enough to be overloaded with blueberries…
Blueberry Muffins – moist!
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Blueberry Lemon Yoghurt Cake
Ingredients
Blueberries:
- 375 g / 12 oz blueberries, fresh , divided (3 punnets) (Note 1 for frozen)
- 1 tbsp plain flour (all purpose flour)
Wet:
- 1 1/4 cups / 275g white sugar , preferably caster / superfine
- 2/3 cup / 165ml vegetable or canola oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 ½ tbsp grated lemon rind
- ¼ cup / 65 ml lemon juice
- 1 cup / 250 g plain yoghurt (I use Greek)
Dry:
- 2 ¼ cups / 335g plain flour (all purpose flour)
- 4 tsp baking powder (Note 2 for baking soda / bi carb)
- Pinch of salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200C / 390F (standard) or 180C / 350F (fan / convection). Grease a 22 cm / 9” springform pan with butter, line base with baking paper.
- Rinse blueberries, shake off excess water (but don’t pat dry). Set aside about 1/3 of the blueberries (for topping cake). Toss remaining blueberries in flour, set aside.
- Whisk Wet in a large bowl. Add flour and salt, sprinkle over baking powder.
- Whisk until just combined – few small lumps is fine. Stir through blueberries (including loose flour in bowl). Pour into pan, top with remaining blueberries.
- Place in oven, TURN DOWN to 180C/350F (standard) or 160C/320F (fan/convection). Bake 50 minutes or until skewer comes out clean. Remove sides of springform pan and cool on a rack, then once cool remove the base.
- Sprinkle with icing sugar (powdered sugar). Serve!
Recipe Notes:
Nutrition Information:
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LIFE OF DOZER
No blueberry cake for Dozer. So he shredded a toy instead. 😂
Can you make this as muffins? If so what would be the cooking time?
Delicious and so easy! I make a lot of your recipes, all fabulous! Thank you ❤️
The cake was so yummy and a winner at our house! Thanks Nagi; you never let us down!
This was a fantastic recipe so good !!
Good flavour, love anything lemon, and this was a lovely moist cake.
Made this with olive oil as didn’t have and veg oil…wouldn’t normally as thought the flavour would be a big overwhelming but it was good.
Amazing cake, not too sweet. Love this recipe!
Made 2 weeks in a row and it is a fantastic recipe. Blueberries are very cheap at the moment. Love the lemon taste and having oil instead of butter makes it so quick to make. Used a 10″ springform pan, cooked so evenly. My husband demolished it!
Nice, moist, not too sweet cake. I used a 10″ springform pan and it still took a full 50 minutes. Thank you!
Made this a few times. Always delicious..
Would like to serve it to my niece who is gluten intolerant so wondered if the recipe would survive gluten free self raising flour?
Thanks.
Had a punnet of fresh blueberries that needed using up. No yogurt, no lemons, Used sour cream and a couple of oldish limes, Halved the recipe and cooked in a small tin for 30 minutes. YUM 😋
4tsp of baking powder?! Am I reading that right? Seems like way too much.
Hi Nagi,
How long can i keel this in the freezer? I would like to bake it and bring it to friends house in 8days… just wanna know if the fresh blueberries will taste weird if frozen
This recipe was incredibly easy to follow, and the result was absolutely delicious! I only had one punnet of blueberries and no fresh lemons on hand, so I substituted with store-bought lemon juice, and it still turned out fantastic. Thanks Nagi!
You didn’t mention when to add sugar 😭 but the cake still tastes good considering this!
Can this be done with a substitute for vegetable oil or canola?
This cake is delicious, but does make a very thick cake. I find it works better in a 22×32 cm rectangular tin. The same goes for the lemon cake.
I’m not usually a cake baker but this was easy and it impressed everybody! I used a bit less sugar and I only had a 19cms tin, so had to cook for 15mins longer. You need 2 average size lemons for the zest and juice. I served it with Bulla Dollop Cream. Simply superb!
This is a delicious cake. When using frozen berries it does take longer to cook, 70 minutes approximately.
Well worth the wait.
The slow cooker brisket is cooking away in the kitchen too. Looking forward to it!
I’ve been patiently waiting for my sister’s Meyer Lemons to be ready and they finally are! Made this the other day using frozen blueberries. Following the recipe, they still managed to sink to the bottom! ARGH! I’m going to make the cake again (so many lemons), so next time I’ll try adding half the batter first then mix the bluberries into the remaining batter. We’ll see how that goes.
Hi Vanessa……if I may; I have heard/read that to stop fruit sinking to the bottom of cakes, thorougly coat the fruit with the flour! I have done this with fruit muffins and it seems to work. Give it a try and see how it goes!
Just baked this (again!) but this time in a 10-cup bundt pan – turned out great! I used only 250g fresh blueberries and cut the sugar to 1 cup. Perfect!