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Blueberry Lemon Yoghurt Cake

By:Nagi
Published:24 Nov '17Updated:17 Sep '21
372 Comments
Recipe v Video v Dozer v

Super quick to whip up, this ultra moist Blueberry Lemon Yoghurt Cake is loaded with fresh blueberries and bright lemon flavours. This is a lovely cake for all occasions! Yoghurt keeps the cake moist and adds a lovely tang too. This is the same batter I also use for this Lemon Cake and Strawberry Cake.

After a show stopper Blueberry Cake? Try this one – 3 layers, studded with blueberries, plus a lemon cream cheese frosting!

A lovely Blueberry Lemon Yoghurt Cake that's incredibly moist and astonishingly quick to make. www.recipetineats.com

Sneaking in a quick blueberry recipe before the prices start hiking up again!! I get childishly excited when berries come into season. Specifically, blueberries. Raspberries never seem to be a bargain – or is it just me?? You’ve never seen a raspberry specific recipe on my site for exactly that reason. Also because, to be honest, raspberries sold in shops here in Sydney are not that great. Too tart, no juicy enough and not much flavour. My only memory of truly great fresh raspberries here in Australia was in Tasmania.

So for me, raspberries are typically reserved for decorative purposes only. Used sparsely.

Blueberries, on the other hand…. when they are in season, they are so great! Juicy, sweet, plump, and just begging to be popped into your mouth by the handful.

OR – loading up a cake with them. 🙂

Specifically, this lovely Blueberry Lemon Yoghurt Cake that is astonishingly quick to make. No creaming butter, it’s a dump-and-mix-with-a-wooden-spoon cake.

A lovely Blueberry Lemon Yoghurt Cake that's incredibly moist and astonishingly quick to make. www.recipetineats.com

The “secret ingredient” in this recipe – albeit not so secret because it’s in the recipe name – is yoghurt. That’s what makes this cake so incredibly moist. It’s not the yoghurt itself that makes the cake moist. The reason yoghurt in cake / muffins etc makes the crumb moist is because the more flour in a batter, the drier the cake is (all other things being equal). Yoghurt thickens the batter, meaning less flour is required to make the batter thick enough to allow the baking powder to make the cake rise.

In this particular case, the yoghurt makes the cake moist and the sourness adds to the bright lemony flavours!

A lovely Blueberry Lemon Yoghurt Cake that's incredibly moist and astonishingly quick to make. www.recipetineats.com

A lovely Blueberry Lemon Yoghurt Cake that's incredibly moist and astonishingly quick to make. www.recipetineats.com

This cake is loaded with blueberries. 3 whole punnets (375g/12 oz). It’s as much as I could pack into it without compromising the rise of the cake.

This Blueberry lemon Yoghurt Cake is a complete and utter celebration of blueberries being in season because at no other time of the year will you find me making this with fresh blueberries. But don’t worry! This is great made with frozen too, I made this one in the photos with frozen blueberries, and I’ve included directions in the recipe. – Nagi x


More afternoon tea favourites

  • Cinnamon Swirl Bread – easy, no yeast!

  • Cheese, Herb and Garlic Loaf or Zucchini Cheese Loaf– quick bread, no yeast

  • Apple Muffins or Apple Cake

  • Whole Orange Cake – super easy and yes, with whole oranges!

  • Raspberry Bars or Strawberry Bars

  • Savoury Cheese Muffins or Cornbread Muffins (personal fave😇)

And more blueberry recipes

In case you’re lucky enough to be overloaded with blueberries…

  • Extra Fluffy Blueberry Pancakes

  • Blueberry Lemon Loaf with Lemon Glaze

  • Blueberry Muffins – moist!

  • Blueberry Cheesecake Bars

A lovely Blueberry Lemon Yoghurt Cake that's incredibly moist and astonishingly quick to make. www.recipetineats.com

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A lovely Blueberry Lemon Yoghurt Cake that's incredibly moist and astonishingly quick to make. recipetineats.com

Blueberry Lemon Yoghurt Cake

Author: Nagi
Prep: 10 mins
Cook: 50 mins
Total: 1 hr
4.92 from 111 votes
Servings12
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An incredibly moist cake that's bursting with fresh blueberries and bright lemon flavours, this is astonishingly quick to make! This cake is not overly sweet, so if you have a sweet tooth, add an extra 1/4 cup of sugar. Recipe VIDEO below.

Ingredients

Blueberries:

  • 375 g / 12 oz blueberries, fresh , divided (3 punnets) (Note 1 for frozen)
  • 1 tbsp plain flour (all purpose flour)

Wet:

  • 1 1/4 cups / 275g white sugar , preferably caster / superfine
  • 2/3 cup / 165ml vegetable or canola oil
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 ½ tbsp grated lemon rind
  • ¼ cup / 65 ml lemon juice
  • 1 cup / 250 g plain yoghurt (I use Greek)

Dry:

  • 2 ¼ cups / 335g plain flour (all purpose flour)
  • 4 tsp baking powder (Note 2 for baking soda / bi carb)
  • Pinch of salt

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 200C / 390F (standard) or 180C / 350F (fan / convection). Grease a 22 cm / 9” springform pan with butter, line base with baking paper.
  • Rinse blueberries, shake off excess water (but don’t pat dry). Set aside about 1/3 of the blueberries (for topping cake). Toss remaining blueberries in flour, set aside.
  • Whisk Wet in a large bowl. Add flour and salt, sprinkle over baking powder.
  • Whisk until just combined - few small lumps is fine. Stir through blueberries (including loose flour in bowl). Pour into pan, top with remaining blueberries.
  • Place in oven, TURN DOWN to 180C/350F (standard) or 160C/320F (fan/convection). Bake 50 minutes or until skewer comes out clean. Remove sides of springform pan and cool on a rack, then once cool remove the base.
  • Sprinkle with icing sugar (powdered sugar). Serve!

Recipe Notes:

1. FROZEN BLUEBERRIES: Use frozen, do not defrost, they will weep into the batter. Measure the blueberries, break them up if clumped and pop them back into the freezer in a bowl. Get the 1 tbsp of flour ready. Mix up the batter, then take the blueberries out of the freezer, take out 1/3, toss remainder in flour. Stir into batter, then continue with recipe.
2. BI CARB / BAKING SODA: This cake can be made with 1 1/2 tsp baking soda in place of the baking powder. But you need to move fairly quickly once it is mixed into the batter because all that lemon juice and yoghurt activates the baking soda quite aggressively. It looks and tastes the same.
3. This Blueberry Lemon Loaf is similar, also made with yoghurt, but the crumb is more dense because it has less flour in it. I prefer that texture for the loaf version of this cake - ideal for slicing.
4. STORAGE: This cake keeps very well for 2 - 3 days, I thought it was still good after 5 days. Store in an airtight container, not in the fridge. Also freezes great - defrost completely and serve at room temp.
5. Nutrition per serving, assuming 12 servings.

Nutrition Information:

Serving: 131gCalories: 354cal (18%)
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372 Comments

  1. Kavita says

    May 22, 2023 at 6:50 am

    I love this recipe. One question – is it possible to make this half the sugar?

    Reply
  2. Theo says

    May 13, 2023 at 9:46 pm

    5 stars
    Super easy and delicious. That said, as other commenters have noted, if you’re using frozen blueberries, it takes a good 1 1/2 hr to bake, maybe a few minutes more. And if the top seems to brown after an hour, lay a piece of foil over it.

    Reply
  3. Robyn says

    April 8, 2023 at 12:58 am

    5 stars
    I made this yesterday for a house full of family – adults and kids. It was so easy, turned out incredibly well and was loved by everyone. Always love your recipes – thanks!

    Reply
  4. J. Wenders says

    April 1, 2023 at 3:44 pm

    5 stars
    This is such a great easy recipe to make. I cut down the sugar to 1 cup. Used fresh blueberries and a bund cake mold to make the cake. Perfect within 45 minutes. Excellent recipe! Thank you Nagi.

    Reply
  5. Kylie says

    April 1, 2023 at 12:52 pm

    Beautiful recipe. I used frozen blueberries. This is definitely at least a 1 1/2 hour cake on 180 ff. Going by most other reviews as well, longer cooking needed. I advise everyone to make it once, noting your cooking time as everyones oven are different. Write your time down for next time

    Reply
  6. Kylie says

    April 1, 2023 at 12:46 pm

    Beautiful recipe. I used frozen blueberries. This is definitely a 1 1/2 hour cake on 180 ff. Going by most other reviews as well, longer cooking needed

    Reply
  7. Kelly Miller says

    March 26, 2023 at 1:27 pm

    5 stars
    I made this recipe w/frozen blueberries and only a half cup of sugar. I added 1 teaspoon of vanilla. It turned out really good!!! Great recipe, Nagi!

    Reply
  8. Stacey Groves says

    March 18, 2023 at 3:53 am

    4 stars
    oh, you’re gonna bust a gut laughing!! my mise-en-place was kind of a mess-in-place! i forgot the sugar!! scraped it all out, quickly stirred the sugar in (thanks for the superfine hint!), and baked for 30 mins, as it was in 2 small pans…. came out great in spite of myself!! and good for a scrambling laugh!!! xxxx

    Reply
  9. Debra says

    March 3, 2023 at 10:41 pm

    I made this cake, it was so easy and turned out amazing.
    My friends were very impressed and think I’m a great baker!?? Ha!
    Thank you, Nagi, so delicious.

    Reply
  10. Ruth says

    March 2, 2023 at 5:28 pm

    5 stars
    Just made this cake and it was delicious!! So moist and yummy 🙂
    I made some substitutions as I’m dairy free and didn’t have a few of the ingredients on hand. This recipe seems to be very forgiving as it turned out perfectly!!
    I subbed in olive oil (used slightly less than the recipe suggested) and coconut yoghurt, as well as using 210g of brown sugar instead of 275g of white… Still slightly too sweet for my liking so I might use even less next time!
    I only had self raising flour so used 350g to make up for the plain flour+baking powder. I used frozen blueberries and skipped the flour coating. Also added flaked almonds to the batter and sprinkled some on top.
    I cooked this in a 22cm (8 1/2 inch?) bundt tin for 50 minutes. Moved it up a rack in the oven for the last 5 minutes and it is cooked to perfection!! So happy with how it turned out! Thanks for the recipe 💛

    Reply
  11. Gayle says

    February 19, 2023 at 3:43 am

    I’ve made this twice now – the first time I forgot one of the cups of flour (oops) and it came out predictably moist and dense, but still delicious enough to get entirely eaten.

    So as soon as the last slice had been gobbled, I tried again and it came out wonderfully! I love how easy it is to make.

    I do most cakes now in a springform pan, lined with a whole sheet of baking paper that’s been scrunched up then flattened out, and eased into the tin with a little bit of folding. No need to grease the tin, and the cake lifts out easily after.

    Reply
  12. Marbleless says

    January 16, 2023 at 1:32 am

    5 stars
    After reading the comments I decided to bake this for 45 minutes in a 9×13 pan. It was perfect! My family loves to have a snack cake like this so they can just grab a square and keep moving.

    Reply
  13. Lucy says

    November 28, 2022 at 9:07 pm

    5 stars
    This is very easy and yummy. I used paper loaf tray instead of the round pan.
    As per the instruction, I pre-heat the oven to 200 degrees C and baked at 180 degrees C.
    Took out after 35 min to turn the cake around and baked for another 15 mins. Used a skewer to poke the center. It was still a bit wet. Baked for another 8 minutes. Turned out great.
    As per her recipe, it was not sweet. I could have put in a bit too much lemon juice, too.
    Will try again with slightly more sugar. Loved this recipe. Thank you very much.

    Reply
  14. Christine says

    November 18, 2022 at 8:52 pm

    This is a really yummy cake. Quick and easy too. Although it’s not easy to time it. The top was browning too quickly for the middle to be cooked- 45 mins was plenty.

    Reply
  15. Debra says

    October 21, 2022 at 1:09 pm

    5 stars
    Oh my goodness, Nagi, this cake was a winner with my friends. It came out perfectly – much to my surprise – my oven is quite crazy and I am no chef, but this could’t have been easier, or more delicious. My friends even joked it looked as pretty as it tasted.
    Congratulations on your new book, mine is arriving today and I’m coming for your autograph! – oh and to meet Dozer 😊
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  16. Sarb says

    October 9, 2022 at 8:03 am

    3 stars
    This is a really delicious cake, I used fresh blueberries and put it in the oven for 50 mins. It was still wobbly in the middle so I put it in for another 10 mins. Skewer was clean when I put it in the middle so I took it out. When I came back after letting it cool the middle had sunk as it was raw so just ate the outsides. Will make this again but bake it for at least 1 hour 15.

    Reply
  17. Jenny says

    September 23, 2022 at 7:24 pm

    A friend made this for me the other day. It was delicious. I’d like to give it a go myself but I have a tree bursting with mulberries. Do you think mulberries would work as well?

    Reply
  18. Holly says

    September 16, 2022 at 9:19 am

    5 stars
    I just made this in a ten cup swirl Bundt pan and it turned out beautifully. Since a bundt is inverted in the end, I just poured half the batter into the pan added the remaining third blueberries through the middle and added remaining batter to get a little blueberry concentrated midway. Was perfectly cooked at the 45min mark. Really lovely cake and got a nice crisp exterior and a nice not too dense crumb.

    Thanks Nagi!

    Reply
  19. Amelia Bock says

    September 15, 2022 at 5:08 pm

    5 stars
    Delicious. You’re a superstar, Nagi. Every one of your recipes is fool proof. My cake needed 20 more minutes cook (anticipation) time probably because I used frozen blueberries. My crew were so pumped by the time it was ready that half was eaten before it cooled 😁

    Reply
  20. Tisha says

    August 4, 2022 at 6:41 pm

    5 stars
    Delicious! Perfect amount of lemon and blueberry flavours. I also had to bake 20 mins longer, perhaps due to frozen berries.
    Thanks Nagi, another beautiful recipe.

    Reply
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