Easiest Lemon Blueberry Cake Recipe (No eggs, butter, or milk!) (2024)

FAQs

Does lemon juice help cakes rise? ›

Lemon juice helps react with baking soda too, and the combination gives the best rise while still keeping the cake very moist. Both of these ingredients are added at the end, which helps ensure that most of the reaction with baking soda happens inside the oven.

Blueberry Cake Storage & Freezing

Let the cake come to room temperature before serving. FREEZING: You can also freeze the cake for up to 2 months. Wrap the cooled cake in couple of layers of plastic wrap and then cover in aluminum foil and place in the freezer. You can freeze the whole cake or individual slices.

Most cakes will call for a leavening agent like baking powder or baking soda. These create the bubbles you need for the cake to rise. If the flour you use is self-raising, it already has a leavening agent in it. Make sure your butter is room temperature, and beat the butter and sugar together until properly creamed.

Solid fats, like butter, can help baked goods rise. When you cream butter and sugar together, it creates an aerated mixture that provides lift before, during, and after baking.

Frozen fruit should work fine in anything baked or cooked. Keep in mind that some recipes may require additional thickener to balance the extra juice. Rinse frozen fruit to prevent colors from bleeding. Thaw frozen fruit first if what you're making has a short baking or cooking time.

It should go without saying, but in any situation where your berries are decorative and uncooked you will want to use the freshest berries. This includes cakes, tarts and even your morning yogurt.

While frozen fruit can't completely replace fresh fruit, swapping in frozen berries will work perfectly well for most of your baking projects.

To balance flavors: Lemon juice can play a great balancing role in baked goods. We sometimes use it in our cookies to balance out a sweet flavor profile. For instance, our CAVA Apricot Cookies contain a small amount of lemon juice to balance the sweetness of the honey-flavored cookie dough.

Lemon juice is a natural dough enhancer, creating more elasticity to the dough which in return makes it easier for the bread to stretch and rise. If baking with ROGERS No Additive ALL Purpose flours, using lemon juice is helpful. If using ROGERS Bread Flours it is not necessary as bread flour contains ascorbic acid.

Can I add lemon juice to my cake mix? ›

In the bowl of your mixer, combine the dry ingredients: cake mix, cake flour, sugar, and salt. Mix or stir to combine. Add lemon juice, lemon flavoring, and lemon zest to the 1 ¼ cup milk (It will thicken to a buttermilk consistency). Add eggs, cream cheese, vegetable oil, and milk/lemon mixture to the dry ingredients.