Blueberry Pound Cake

This cake was impressed by our check kitchen director, Laura Crandall, and her fond recollections of selecting blueberries together with her sisters from their grandmother Peggy’s yard. When their containers had been full, they’d run again to the home, the place Peggy would stir the freshly picked berries right into a buttery pound cake that they ate heat from the oven with a contact of confectioners’ sugar.

Makes 1 (10-cup) Bundt cake

1¼ cups (284 grams) unsalted butter, softened
1¾ cups (350 grams) granulated sugar
2½ teaspoons (5 grams) lemon zest
5 massive eggs (250 grams), room temperature
1 teaspoon (4 grams) vanilla extract
2⅓ cups (292 grams) plus 2 tablespoons (16 grams) all-purpose flour, divided
1½ teaspoons (4.5 grams) kosher salt
½ teaspoon (2.5 grams) baking soda
½ cup (120 grams) entire buttermilk, room temperature
1⅔ cups (250 grams) recent blueberries
Garnish: confectioners’ sugar

Preheat oven to 325°F (170°C).
Within the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter, granulated sugar, and lemon zest at medium velocity till gentle and fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes, stopping to scrape backside and sides of bowl. Add eggs, one after the other, beating properly after every addition. Beat in vanilla.
In a medium bowl, whisk collectively 2⅓ cups (292 grams) flour, salt, and baking soda. With mixer on low velocity, progressively add flour combination to butter combination alternately with buttermilk, starting and ending with flour combination, beating till simply mixed after every addition and stopping to scrape backside and sides of bowl.
In small bowl, toss collectively blueberries and remaining 2 tablespoons (16 grams) flour till coated. Utilizing a rubber spatula, fold blueberry combination into batter till properly mixed.
Spray a 10-cup Bundt pan with baking spray with flour. Spoon batter into ready pan, gently spreading with an offset spatula.
Bake till a wood choose inserted close to heart comes out clear, 1 hour to 1 hour and 5 minutes. Let cool in pan on a wire rack for quarter-hour. Invert cake onto a wire rack. Garnish with confectioners’ sugar, if desired, and serve heat, or let cool utterly. Retailer in an hermetic container for as much as 3 days.