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Lemon & blueberry cake

Lemon & blueberry cake

Here’s a wonderfully summery cake that’s really easy to make and uses lots of great-value ingredients. Serve with your favourite cuppa, or a spoonful of Greek yogurt or crème fraîche.

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  • Serves8
  • CourseCake
  • Prepare20 mins
  • Cook40 mins
  • Total time1 hr
  • Pluscooling

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Ingredients

  • 175g Essential Unsalted Butter, plus extra for greasing
  • 175g golden caster sugar, plus 2 tbsp
  • 3 Waitrose British Blacktail medium Eggs
  • tsp vanilla bean paste
  • 1 unwaxed lemon, zest and juice
  • 175g essential self-raising flour
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 150g Essential Blueberries, rinsed and dried

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C, gas mark 4. Grease a 20cm round, deep, loose-bottomed cake tin and line with baking parchment. Using an electric mixer, cream together the butter and sugar for 2-3 minutes until pale and light. One at a time, beat in the eggs until fully incorporated, then beat in the vanilla and lemon zest.

  2. Fold in the flour and salt until just combined, then pour the batter into the cake tin. Scatter the blueberries over the top and bake for 35-40 minutes until golden, risen and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.

  3. While the cake is baking, make the syrup. Warm the lemon juice and 2 tbsp sugar in a small saucepan until the sugar has dissolved, then simmer for 2 minutes. Spoon over the cooked cake while hot, then allow to cool completely in the tin before serving.

Cook’s tip

Vanilla bean paste:

This store-cupboard staple is a handy swap for vanilla pods in ice creams and custards. Also try stirring it into whipped cream for serving with fruit.

Nutritional

Typical values per serving when made using specific products in recipe

Energy

1,548kJ/ 370kcals

Fat

21g

Saturated Fat

13g

Carbohydrates

40g

Sugars

24g

Fibre

1.1g

Protein

5.8g

Salt

0.3g

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