Blueberry Lemon Cheesecake Cake is a blueberry cake scented with a zesty lemon aroma underneath a creamy and fluffy cheesecake, baked in the one pan! The first of it’s kind!
After making, devouring, and crying over the last slice of Carrot Cake Cheesecake, it was time to take that recipe and turn it into a completely new and different cake. I wanted blueberry and lemon together, and searched through every internet page and recipe book I could find. THIS CAKE is not in any book, not on any blog or website or in any restaurant, cafe or diner. I’m proud to say it’s the first Blueberry Lemon Cheesecake Cake invented!
This cake is deserving of a freaking drumroll. I baked it FOUR TIMES before nailing the recipe! Keep in mind, blueberries were priced at over $5 per punnet when I decided to experiment — and fail time and time again — before getting it right. Great thinking on my part. What I thought would be an easy transformation from carrot cake to blueberry cake turned out to be anything BUT easy. Gah this cake! The first time I baked it, and photographed it, it wasn’t right. The cheesecake was crumbly. The cake itself was dry. What the hell is going on? Taking my time and pouring love into the second attempt, I thought excitedly this was it. Nailed it. Only to smell something burning in my kitchen 20 minutes later. What had I done? I’d turned the broiler (grill) on instead of the oven. So I had a charred, black top, furiously smoking and about to catch on fire while the underneath was raw batter. My kitchen is now the proud owner of a fire extinguisher. Back I went in the THIRD TIME; accidentally confusing baking soda with baking powder. When removing it from the oven, all I saw was the wrongness of the texture and realised I’d also forgotten to add in the milk which was still sitting on my counter — with a straw magically appeared in it — and my son attached to the other end of it.
Needles to say, I was ready to throw it all in after the sixth trip to the supermarket (forgetting the cream cheese in both extra trips), but my extreme stubbornness got the better of me and I tried ONE MORE TIME AT MIDNIGHT. Yes, at midnight. If that’s not stubborn dedication, then what is.
And I’m so glad I finally did it, because this cake is absolutely prefect. Moist, fluffy, full of juicy blueberries, with the creamiest cheesecake sitting on top. Drizzled in a cream cheese glaze, it does NOT get any better than this cake! A round of applause, a bottle of wine later along with blood, sweat and tears, it’s finally here for you to enjoy.
The moral of this story? I now have 3 blueberry lemon cheesecake cakes sitting in my refrigerator. Anyone want cake?
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