Luscious Blueberry Pound Cake

It is Mother’s Day today. Here’s an easy and elegant cake for the occasion. The first batch of blueberries on the bushes in my backyard are ready for picking and I decided to bake an blueberry pound cake. This recipe is a simple dessert to make. Last summer my teenage grandson came for to visit; we had a baking session and baked this cake.

The cake is moist and simply delicious. The recipe uses a box of white cake mix, cream cheese and fresh blueberries. Bake in a spring form pan, drizzle on a glaze of lemon juice and powdered sugar and top with fresh blueberries. The lemon glaze seeps into the cake making it moist and tart.

Recipe

To make the cake, I used  a box of Pillsbury White Cake Mix. This mix has a distinctive almond flavor and blends well with the blueberries. The dense and rich flavor comes by adding a box of cream cheese. Beat the cream cheese first with an electric mixer until the cream cheese is softened. Then add in the box of cake mix, eggs, oil and water. Lastly, fold fresh blueberries into the batter by hand.

You can bake the cake in a either Bundt cake pan or a tube pan. I like the shape of a tube pan with removable bottom such as an Angel Food Cake tube pan. It is easy to remove the baked cake from the pan, well sort of easy. The cake is delicate; Let it cool at least 15 minutes first before removing it from the pan so it won’t crack and split. Use plenty of  oil to grease the cake pan, too.

Here’s the baked pound cake.

For the icing, I made a powdered sugar glaze. The glaze is not as rich as a typical cake icing; just the right mix of sweet/tartness to blend with the blueberries. The glaze is made with 1 cup powdered sugar and 3 -4 Tbsp lemon juice. Whisk together; adding a tablespoon of lemon juice at a time to get a thick pour-able glaze.

Spread the glaze over the cake and top with a few additional blueberries. These “pop” when you eat the cake giving a fruity flavor.

It is a delicious cake.