Lemon and Blueberry Vertical Layer Cake
Saku created this dish for Great British Bake Off ™ Series 14. This is a Fix-It reconstruction that preserves her praised lemon-and-blueberry flavour concept while applying targeted structural corrections so the vertical spiral stands without cracking. A homemade blueberry reduction gives the buttercream genuine fruit depth, and a sharp lemon cream-cheese icing cuts cleanly against the sweet filling. Prue Leith praised the flavour idea outright on the day.
- Time: 180 min
Source: Relaxed Recipes
Ingredients
- FOR THE BLUEBERRY REDUCTION
- fresh or frozen blueberries
- granulated sugar
- lemon juice
- FOR THE LEMON SHEET SPONGE
- large eggs, room temperature
- caster sugar
- self-raising flour, sifted
- fine salt
- unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- Finely grated zest of 2 lemons
- vanilla extract
- FOR THE BLUEBERRY BUTTERCREAM
- unsalted butter, softened
- icing sugar, sifted
- Most of the cooled blueberry reduction
- of fine salt
- FOR THE SHARP LEMON CREAM-CHEESE ICING
- full-fat cream cheese, cold and well-drained
- Finely grated zest of 1 lemon
- lemon juice, to taste
- TO FINISH
- Reserved 1 tbsp blueberry reduction
- A few fresh blueberries
- A curl of lemon zest