Lemon Blueberry Bundt Cake
A moist lemon bundt cake filled with fresh blueberries and topped with a sweet lemon glaze. This Lemon Blueberry Bundt Cake is a perfect dessert for lemon lovers!
When it comes to cakes, I absolutely love baking bundt cakes. Not only do they always turn out perfect, but you hardly need any decorating skills when it comes to making them. You can usually just top them with a simple glaze and they always look so beautiful.
Today’s bundt cake recipe is one of my favorite flavor combinations (and I think it’s safe to say, a lot of you love it too!) lemons + blueberries. This cake is so incredibly moist, lemony, and packed with a ton of beautiful fresh blueberries. It’s like summer in the form of a bundt cake.
To get started, I suggest tossing your blueberries in a little bit of flour until they’re well coated. The flour helps to keep the blueberries suspended in the batter so they don’t end up sinking straight to the bottom of the pan. Instead, your blueberries will be nicely distributed throughout the cake.
Then, you’ll whisk together some flour (make sure to measure it correctly), baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
For the wet ingredients, you’ll start by creaming together some butter and sugar until light and fluffy. This usually takes about 4-5 minutes to get to this stage, the butter will be light/pale in color and the mixture will look “fluffy”. Then, you’ll mix in the some eggs and pure vanilla extract.
Next, mix in some lemon juice, lemon zest, and oil. I find that bundt cakes made with just butter tend to dry out a little on day two. To combat this problem, I like to use a combination of butter and oil. The cake will still have that rich buttery flavor and the oil will help to keep the cake moist, even on day two and three. Trust me on this one!
One important thing, there is a lot of batter for this bundt cake. Make sure to alternate mixing your sour cream with the dry ingredients to avoid over mixing the batter. Then, gently fold in your blueberries that you tossed in some flour just until they’re evenly distributed into the batter.
You’ll pour the batter into your bundt pan, spread it around, and bake it for about 50-65 minutes. I suggest checking the cake around the 50 minute mark just to be safe.
To really add some more lemon flavor to this lemon blueberry bundt cake, I love to use lemon juice in the glaze. You can use milk if you prefer or even leave the glaze off and enjoy it plain!
Baking Tips
- Make sure to toss your blueberries in 1 tablespoon of flour before adding them to the batter. This will help to keep the blueberries from sinking straight to the bottom of the pan.
- Make sure all of your ingredients are at room temperature before getting starting (even the sour cream!).
- Avoid over mixing your batter by alternating mixing the dry ingredients with the sour cream.
- If the top of the bundt cake starts too brown too much before the cake is fully finished, cover it loosely with some foil.
More Lemon Blueberry Desserts You’ll Love!
- Lemon Blueberry Bread
- Lemon Berry Cheesecake Sugar Cookie Cups
- Mini Lemon Blueberry Cheesecakes
- Lemon Blueberry Cupcakes
- Baked Lemon Blueberry Donuts
Lemon Blueberry Bundt Cake
Ingredients
For the cake:
- 2 cups (300 grams fresh) blueberries + 1 tablespoon (8 grams) all-purpose flour
- 2 and ¾ cups (345 grams) all-purpose flour, spooned & leveled
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup (170 grams) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- 2 cups (400 grams) granulated sugar
- 4 large eggs room temperature
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ⅓ cup (80ml) fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons (30 ml) lemon zest
- ¼ cup (60 ml) canola or vegetable oil
- 1 cup (230 grams) full fat sour cream, room temperature
For the lemon glaze:
- 1 cup (120 grams) confectioners sugar
- 2-3 tablespoons (30-45 ml) fresh lemon juice, use as needed
Instructions
To make the cake:
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Add the blueberries and 1 tablespoon of flour to a mixing bowl and toss together until all of the blueberries are coated with the flour. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, or a large mixing bowl using an electric mixer, beat the butter and sugar for about 4-5 minutes until light and fluffy.
- Mix in the eggs one a time until well combined, then mix in the vanilla. Slowly mix in the lemon juice, lemon zest, and oil.
- Add the dry ingredients in three additions alternating with the sour cream, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients on low speed. Mix in each addition until just combined, making sure not to over mix the batter. There will be quite a bit of batter, so I suggest using a rubber spatula to turn the batter a few times to make sure everything is well combined. Then add the blueberries and gently fold them into the batter until just combined.
- Spray a 10-inch bundt pan well with nonstick cooking spray. Pour the batter into the prepared bundt pan and evenly spread it around.
- Bake at 350°F for 50-65 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean. Cover loosely with foil if needed for the last 5-10 minutes of baking to prevent excess browning.
- Remove from the oven and cool in the pan on a wire rack for 30 minutes, then invert the cake onto the wire rack to finish cooling.
To make the glaze:
- In a medium sized mixing bowl, whisk together the powdered sugar and lemon juice until well combined and no lumps remain. If the glaze is too thick, add a little more lemon juice. If the glaze is too thin, add a little more powdered sugar to thicken it up.
- Pour the glaze on top of the bundt cake and allow to sit for about 10-15 minutes so the glaze can harden.
Adapted from my Lemon Poppyseed Bundt Cake
Made this so many times and it’s always requested! Now that it’s Fall I’m making this with orange and cranberry. Fingers crossed! After glazing I’m gonna top this version with walnuts
So excited to make this! Can I bake the night before? If I do should I also put the glaze on the night before?
Or would it be best to bake that morning?
Thank you!
Yes, it’s okay to bake it and add the glaze the night before! Just be sure to let the cake cool completely before you add the glaze.
Filled with flavour, delicious!
This was absolutely outstanding!!!! I followed it to a t and everyone raved about it. Was the hit of the get together. So moist and fresh. Just incredible!!!!!! Oh, one thing I recommend to do differently is butter and flour the pan to keep it from sticking. I used the spray and it was not sufficient. The whole top of the cake stuck so I glued it all back together. That’s how amazing it was, no one cared.
I sprayed the pan 2-3 times the normal
amount and the cake still stuck to the sides
of the pan and the texture, instead of smooth, was very crumbly. I followed the instructions to a ‘T’. Very sad. Was going to serve it at a gathering.
Any ideas why?
If you’re saying you followed the recipe to a T and didn’t make any changes, then I’m really not sure. Not using room temperature ingredients, not mixing together ingredients properly, etc. can affect the texture.
I have made this cake a handful of times, and everything I do, it is a huge hit ! It is easy to make, and it is so delicious !! I am reviewing the recipe now to make small bundt cakes with this batch, perfect size and equally delicious !!
Thank you for the recipe !!
My family’s favorite cake recipes.
This cake was really heavy, more like a pound cake. I should’ve realized with the sour cream. I was looking for a light summery lemon cake. The flavor was good. A better description in my opinion would be pound cake.
This was my first time to try this recipe. The directions were easy to follow and the cake turned out amazing!
Looks great! I haven’t baked it yet but would love to. I only have frozen blueberries. Will those work?
Yes, they will work! You don’t have to thaw them, just make sure to gently fold them into the batter.
Looks & sounds delicious – anxious to bake!
Delicious cake with bright fresh taste. It gets many compliments on how good it is. Follow directions exactly, and use fresh ingredients. I bake in a non-stick Bundt pan at 345° for 55-60 minutes.
Great Recipe, it came out moist and flavorful. I would use this Recipe again.
I have made this cake many times I spray and lightly flour my Bundt pan and let it bake for the 65 mins .
I made your recipe just as shown. Admittedly I do not measure exactly. It was fantastic! BTW I substituted GF flour with not a care in the world and it came out so, so good.
I can’t wait to try anything else you post.
My second time trying this recipe and you Have to put shortening and flour in pan to prevent sticking !
Pam alone does nothing !
I’ve used Pam several times with this recipe and it works fine. You just have to make sure to spray your pan really well 🙂
Perfect. Made it so many times
I’m making this for our Easter weekend get together. It is so delicious and easy. Love all of your recipes! Your site is my go-to when I need a baking recipe .
Thank you, Catherine! So glad you’re enjoying the recipes!
I have made this cake many times. Everyone loves it. I have found it takes way longer than 65 minutes to bakc. I thought it might have been my old oven not heating properly but it is the same in my new oven. Count on checking it at 1 hour 20 minutes and could still take another 5-10 to completely bake.
Since this was a new recipe for me, I followed it exactly. Unfortunately, the cake is still in the oven after one and a half hours! Anyone else have this problem? I’m disappointed because it sure sounded good.
It shouldn’t take that long. Have you checked your oven temperature with an oven thermometer?
This is probably the most delicious cake I have ever made-And I bake several times a week, and I’m “no spring chic”. I noticed when I read some reviews about the cake sticking to the pan. As you said you MUST seriously greaase a bundt cake especially in all the nooks and crannies,
Delicious cake! Unfortunately, I must not have defrosted my blueberries properly as my cake came out wet and heavy, even though the toothpick came out clean. Fresh blueberries are probably ideal.
Honestly not sure where I went wrong. Followed the recipe to a T… after waiting 30 mins to cool so I could flip the cake onto a wire rack it was difficult to come out and then flipped out broken, as if it wasn’t baked all the way through. When testing with the toothpick it came out clean though. Taste is 10/10… but definitely did not turn out the way it was supposed to unfortunately 🙁
Was it actually baked all the way through? If so, you may not have greased your pan with enough nonstick cooking spray. I spray mine pretty generously for this recipe.