Blueberry-Sour Cream Pound Cake with Lemon Cream

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Blueberry-Sour Cream Pound Cake with Lemon Cream
Yield:
2 cakes

We've dressed up our Classic Pound Cake recipe with blueberries, sour cream, and a lemon-cream topping.

Ingredients

For the Cake

  • 1 pound (3 ¼ cups) plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

  • 1 tablespoon coarse salt

  • 3 sticks softened unsalted butter, plus more for pans

  • ½ cup sour cream

  • 2 cups sugar

  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

  • 9 large , room-temperature eggs

  • 2 cups blueberries

  • 2 tablespoons sanding sugar

For the Topping

  • 1 cup heavy cream

  • 1 tablespoon confectioners' sugar

  • 2 teaspoons lemon zest

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Butter two 5-by-9-inch loaf pans. Combine 3 1/4 cups flour and salt in a bowl.

  2. Cream butter, sour cream, and sugar with a mixer on high speed until pale and fluffy, for 8 minutes. Scrape down sides of bowl. Reduce speed to medium, and add vanilla extract.

  3. Lightly beat eggs, and add to mixer bowl in 4 additions, mixing thoroughly after each and scraping down sides. Reduce speed to low, and add flour mixture in 4 additions, mixing until just incorporated. Toss blueberries in remaining 2 tablespoons flour; fold into finished batter. Divide batter between pans. Tap on counter to distribute; smooth tops.

  4. Before baking, sprinkle sanding sugar over each cake. Bake until a tester inserted into center of each cake comes out clean, about 65 minutes. Let cool in pans on a wire rack for 30 minutes. Remove from pans, and let cool completely on wire rack.

  5. Make the lemon cream: Combine heavy cream, confectioners' sugar, and lemon zest in a bowl. Beat until soft peaks form.

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