Lemon Glazed Blueberry Boyfriend Bait
I don’t know whether Lemon Glazed Blueberry Boyfriend Bait will get you a boyfriend, but it will definitely make the boyfriend or in my case the husband you have extremely happy !
Let me set the scene up for you…I was making breakfast for dinner, a vegetable frittata, fried potatoes with onion and green peppers, bacon and homemade bread. Before I started dinner I made this cake. My husband ate a full plate at dinner time.
So much so that he pushed his chair away from the table and declared…I’m stuffed. I, knowing this cake would be cool enough to eat after dinner, left room for it. I told Paul I was going to get a piece of cake.
Figuring that he was to full to want any, but still wanting to offer it, I asked him if he wanted a piece. “Ok, but just a small piece”, was his reply. While he was into his second bite, he looked at me and said…
“This is the best blueberry cake I’ve ever eaten. It’s so soft, the blueberry’s taste so good.” He went on like this while he sat and ate piece after piece of cake till he had eaten…half the 13×9 inch pan himself!
This cake is so soft and moist. The blueberry and lemon flavors are perfect together, this is truly a cake you won’t forget, and will want to make over and over again.
This simple cake is one of the best cakes I’ve ever made. And even though the topping melted into the cake, I’ll still put it on and let it melt into the cake. Why? Because the next time I make it, I want it to taste just like it did the first time I made it, absolutely heavenly.
The reserved 3/4 cup of topping seemed to disappear into the cake. If you wanted the crumb topping to be prominent on top of the cake, make more topping than the recipe calls for. And although the cake would be wonderful as is, I decided to add more lemon flavor by adding a Lemon Glaze to the top, now I had the lemon blueberry taste I so love!
This is an extraordinary cake that you will absolutely love!
Lemon Glazed Blueberry Boyfriend Bait
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2/3 cup butter
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup milk
- 2 eggs separated
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 3 cups blueberries or 3 cups of frozen blueberries thawed and drained well , coated with flour, shake off excess flour
- zest of one lemon
- Lemon Glaze
- 2 TBLS lemon juice
- about 1 cup confectioners sugar
- Mix the lemon juice and confectioners sugar together drizzle over top of baked cake while warm.
Instructions
In a large bowl
- Mix together flour, sugar, & butter with an electric mixer. Reserve 3/4 cup of this mixture for topping.
- To remaining flour, sugar and butter mixture, add salt, baking powder, vanilla, milk, & egg yolks and lemon zest.
- Blend well.
- Beat egg whites until firm peaks form.
- Gently fold the firm egg whites into the batter and pour into a greased 9" X 13" baking pan.
- Sprinkle blueberries over the top of the batter, sprinkle the reserved 3/4 cup of flour/sugar/butter mixture on top of the blueberries.
- Bake in 350 degree oven for 40-50 minutes.
- If using the Lemon Glaze, pour over cake after it has cooled to warm.
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Oh this looks SO delicious – I don’t actually need a boyfriend but I’ll make them anyway! – love your blog and happy to follow 🙂
Mary x
Making this on Saturday for hubby! Looks so delicious. Love blueberry/lemon combination. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Debs , Oh he’s going to love it!!!I hope you come back and tell me how it went!
Mary thank you so much!
Oh my this looks good! I am gloriously and ecstatically single with no interest at all in attracting any kind of ‘love interest’ but I will definitely make this for my son and I!
Anonymous, I have to say this ranks up there as one of the best cakes I’ve ever made, you and your son will love it!
Just copied this onto a recipe card and looking forward to trying it. I really love lemon treats and lemon and blueberry…so have to try this.
I smiled reading that your husband ate half the pan 🙂
Anonymous, it’s one of the best cakes I’ve ever made. You’ll love it! Come back and let me know how it went for you!
I grew up with a very similar cake called Blueberry Boy Bait cake My Mom never used Blueberries in it she used fresh picked Huckleberries, with a scoop of Ice cream it was heaven, heaven, & more Heaven.!!!
I saw this recipe on Christmas Eve and decided to make it for a family get together that evening….oh my, it was amazing…actually I’ve never tasted a homemade cake so light and fluffy….I doubled the recipe and put 2 pans in the freezer….took one to Branson and ate it in a cabin on New Years Eve..the last one I took out this past Friday night for the Ohio State Football game…we lost but the cake was a winner…from freezer to table…awesome… Funny, since I was out of town when I made it, I just spent nearly an hour trying to find it again…yea, I was so excited when it popped up…do not hesitate, this recipe is a keeper!
Anonymous, I’m so happy you loved the cake! My husband ate half the cake himself! It really is one of the best blueberry cakes I’ve ever made!
I made this because I had blueberry in my freezer. I added three cups of well drained frozen blueberries and 1 cup fresh to the recipe, Loved it.
My husband took half to work and the guys all ate it up. Thank for the recipe
Hi, I have just made this and am waiting to taste it…when do you add the lemon zest? I thought I had made a mistake but nowhere in the recipe does it say to add the lemon zest….
Anonymous, Sorry! You can fold the zest into the batter after it’s made. I hope you loved it as much as we did!
Well I just made this it’s in the oven. I took pics with iphone of the recipe. I was on my photo said to pour batter in pan, sprinkle berries and then the topping. Did that put it in the oven. Then I thought oh no I forgot the zest! Looked back on another pic and seen I missed the zest and the flour on the blueberries 🙁 hope it turns out ok after I put the glaze on !
I saw this on Pinterest and couldn’t resist visiting your site! Wowza, does this ever look delicious!
Wonderful recipe. I had made this for a family gathering & everyone loved it! Pple asked if they could take some more before I left the party lol. Making this again today for my family as a breakfast treat.
Thank you for coming back to tell me Lien!
I am making some desserts for a wedding table and not sure of refrigeration there, plus I will be travelling with this but in a cooler.. Does this freeze well and would this work well on a dessert table with other home made things! Plan to make Butter tart squares, dream walnut bar and a peanut butter marshmallow slice.
What do you think, I would really like to do a lemon meringue bar, but don’t think the meringue would freeze
Kennedy it sounds like you are going to be busy! I’ve never frozen this cake. It never lasted long enough to freeze! I’m going to say you can because you can freeze almost all cakes. Let me know how it goes for you.
This is great. I used raspberries because my husband doesn’t like blueberries.
EllAnn that sounds so good! Thank you for coming back to tell me you made it!
This looks amazing! I love the title of this recipe.
Me too Julie! It was one of the reasons I had to make it LOL!
This recipe is soooo good. We make it several times during blueberry season. My family loves it!!
One of my very favorites Dawn, so simple and so very good!
Where did you use the lemon zest ?? it is in the list but not in the method 🙂 i guess in the batter, but im just confirming with you.
Oh my gosh Ruby I’m so sorry! Yes add it to the batter, I just fixed it. Thank you for bringing it to my attention!
Delicious!! I’ve made this several times. My husband loves it. Thank you for the recipe!
Your welcome Lien , my husband loved it too!
Wow this is the best dessert have made lately…I work as a Medic on a Rig and always bake for the boys….this recipe was gone in no time…sooooo yummy!!! 😀 to do it again and again and again….;)
Linda you are such a sweetheart for baking for boys! I’m so happy they loved it!
I made this for church and it was great!!!
Marsha this is one of my favorite cakes, I love it! Thank you for coming back to say you made it!
Does this need refrigerated?
No Nic it doesn’t need refrigerated. I love you this, it’s one terrific cake!
So cute – boyfriend bait. ha! I know this would make my husband happy too!
I love the name to Megan!
Blueberry and lemon together is my favorite! This will especially be perfect during blueberry picking season in the summer!
I made his last night and it was easy and a WINNER with the family. I did sub gluten free flour and had no issues. But, I will probably double the batter so it will be thicker and more cake like
Fantastic Anastascia! Thank you for telling us you made it with gluten free flour, that will be so helpful to someone else that would like to make it gluten free. Your awesome!
Wow!! I don’t even like blueberries and my boyfriend hates cake, but he loved this one! So yummy! Going to recommend to all my friends
Thank you so much Denisse, it’s a definite keeper around here!
I assume that since the recipe calls for baking powder and salt that you use all purpose flour?
Yes Valorie, I used all purpose flour. You’re going to love this one!
Does the butter need to be melted before adding it?
No Andrea, just room temperature.