A Blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara
This seems to be a very good year for blueberries – they have been on sale for several weeks in a row and they are very tasty. It just so happens that while perusing a magazine passed on to me by my mother, I stumbled upon a section of blueberry recipes. One of them was a triple-layer blueberry lemon cake. It looked delicious.
Beekeeper Brian and I have no business eating an entire triple-layer blueberry cake regardless of how wonderful it may be. I decided to make the cake for our Community Group meeting. I did tell them it was a new recipe.
I bought fresh lemons and grated the peel before squeezing the juice from them. I took the butter and eggs out to bring to room temperature and carefully measured out all the ingredients. The three layers came out beautiful.
Then I made the frosting. That was not so beautiful. In fact, it was quite slippery, and I had to use skewers to keep the layers from sliding around. It was a disaster.
I have always said that the bigger the mess, the better the taste.
This cake proved my point – it was delicious!
I’ve learned that cakes must me cooled and icing must have been refrigerated for a little bit. If you use butter, that the the reason for the slip and slid icing. That’s why restaurant serve your cake chilled, I guess. Bet the cake was so yummy!