dorset . 70th birthday

I baked a lemon blueberry cake with cream cheese frosting for my father in law's 70th birthday. This cake is so light and moist!

Lemon Blueberry Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients

• 1 ½ cups cake flour*
• 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp baking soda
• ¾ tsp salt
• ½ cup maple syrup
• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 Tbsp lemon zest
• 4 large eggs
• 2 tsp lemon extract
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• ¾ cup + 2 Tbsp milk
• ¼ cup + 2 Tbsp sour cream
• 2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
• 2 ½ cups fresh blueberries, at room temperature, rinsed and drained well


Cream Cheese Frosting
• 12 oz cream cheese, softened
• ¾ cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• ¼ tsp lemon extract
• 2 Tbsp maple syrup
• Blueberries for garnish

Directions

• - Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 
• - Butter 3 x 9" round baking pans and line the bottom with parchment paper. Butter parchment paper and lightly dust pan with flour, shaking out excess.
• - Sift cake flour into a mixing bowl. Add all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt and whisk for 30 seconds, set aside. 
• - Whip together butter, maple syrup and lemon zest until mixture is pale and fluffy with an electric mixer. 
• - In a 2 cup liquid measuring cup, measure out milk then stir in sour cream and lemon juice, let rest 3 minutes. 
• - Mix eggs into butter mixture one a time, then stir in lemon extract and vanilla extract.-
• - Toss blueberries with 3 Tbsp of the flour mixture. Working in three separate batches, beginning and ending with remaining flour mixture, add 1/3 of the flour mixture (to the butter/egg mixture) alternating with 1/2 of the milk mixture and mixing just until combined after each addition. 
• - Gently fold in blueberries. 
• - Divide mixture evenly among the three baking pans. 
• - Bake in preheated oven for about 24 - 27 minutes. 
• - Cool in baking pans about 20 - 30 minute then invert onto wire racks to cool completely. - 
• - Once cool, frost with cream cheese frosting and decorate with blueberries 
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• Cream Cheese Frosting:
• - Whip butter until pale and fluffy. 
• - Add cream cheese and mix until smooth and fluffy. 
• - Add vanilla and lemon extract and maple syrup and blend several minutes longer until smooth and fluffy 
• - Chill the frosting in the fridge for half an hour before frosting the cake.
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* you make your own cake flour by replacing 2 Tbsp of all purpose flour with the same amount of corn flour for every cup of flour required.