Home / Recipes / Sweets and Treats / Cakes and Cupcakes / Lemon Blueberry Layer CakeThis easy Lemon Blueberry Layer Cake is bursting with fresh blueberries and lemon flavor.Topped with homemade cream cheese frosting, this classic cake recipe is perfect for summer!Fresh and Easy Lemon Blueberry CakeThis Lemon Blueberry Cake recipe was meant for summer.This cake is seriously SO moist, tender and full of amazing lemon flavor.

Add plenty of fresh blueberries to the mix and you have a classic cake that pretty much represents the best of summer, in cake form!When working on this recipe, I started with my lemon poppyseed cake, because that cake has been so well loved and is my favorite lemon cake at the moment.However, the blueberries initially sank because the batter is a little thin for holding the blueberries and the cake is so light.To fix that, I added some additional flour and replaced some of the milk with sour cream.Sour cream adds a similar moisture, but it’s thicker so your batter isn’t as thin.

I also used buttermilk instead of regular milk, to help tenderize the cake.After making those changes, the cake wasn’t quite as moist as I wanted and the texture wasn’t quite perfect.My next step was to add some additional sugar.It’s a common misconception that sugar only lends sweetness to a recipe.

When sugar melts, it’s liquid, so it actually adds moisture and can greatly affect texture.The additional sugar I added gave the cake just enough moisture and the BE

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