Vegan Lemon Blueberry Cake Recipe. This zesty Blueberry Lemon Pound Cake is dense and full of flavor. Use other berries in this Vegan Pound Cake Recipe. Non Dairy Yogurt Pound Cake Loaf with lemon and blueberries. 15 min prep and done. Pin this recipe. Jump to Recipe
These lemony slices make an amazing snack or breakfast. Add more or less zest. Dress with a lemony glaze and each slice will be perfect for dessert too. Non Dairy yogurt adds a dense, moist and pound loaf texture to this cake.
The cake takes just 15 minutes to come together. Mix in all the wet ingredients along with the zest. Whisk all the dry. Mix both into a batter. fold in the blueberries that have been tossed in a bit of flour. Also add some blueberries on top. Bake, cool, slice and done. As with all flavorful loafs and cakes, the flavors get stronger with time. So the cake tastes and feels better the next day. Make a loaf and tag me on Instagram. Lemony, Berryful, Easy and a Crowd Pleaser.
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Make the batter, fold in some berries and drop into parchment lined pan.
Bake until golden.
Cool completely and slice.
Video:
Vegan Lemon Blueberry Cake. Yogurt Pound Cake Loaf
Ingredients
Wet:
- 1/2 cup (122.5 ml) non dairy yogurt or use blended silken tofu or thick cashew cream or softened vegan cream cheese or vegan sour cream
- 3/4 cup (183 ml) non dairy milk
- 3/4 cup (150 g) or more unrefined sugar preferably powdered
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 tbsp oil
- 3 tbsp lemon juice
- Zest of a lemon or lime
Dry:
- 2 cups (250 g) flour I use 1 cup wheat or spelt flour, and 1 cup unbleached white
- 1.5 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp (0.25 tsp) baking soda
- 1/4 tsp (0.25 tsp) salt
- 3/4 cup (75 g) blueberries tossed in 1 tbsp flour
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 365 degrees F / 180ºc. Line a loaf pan with parchment.
- Add all the wet ingredients in a bowl and whisk until the sugar is well combined. 1-2 mins
- In another bowl, whisk all the dry ingredients except blueberries. Add dry to wet and mix until just combined. Reserve 1-2 tbsp blueberries. Fold in the rest of the blueberries into the batter..
- Drop the batter into prepared pan. Distribute the remaining blueberries on top and press in lightly.
- Bake for 55 to 60 minutes or until a toothpick from the center comes out clean.
- Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan. Cool completely before slicing. Frost or ice if needed. A simple glaze of lemon zest + lemon juice + sugar icing works really well.
Video
Notes
Frost or ice with a lemony glaze or cream cheese based frosting. Nutritional values based on one serving
Nutrition
Jennifer
The reception to this bread was pretty average in our house. Not sure what could have made it yummier, but I did follow recipe quite closely.
Richa
More sugar, or fat(oil) or lemon? Taste is personal preference so I don’t know what your expectations would be. Many people adjust the sweet to preference. This is not a very sweet loaf. Some additional lemon icing would also help .
Rita
Delicious pound cake loaf. Made for the first time today, and have added it to my muffin/loaf rotation. Love the combination of blueberries and the lemon. Not only am I a huge Richa fan, but my husband says every time we make a Richa recipe, you know it is going to taste great!
Also, I did not frost or add a crumb mixture to the top of my loaf and for us it is just perfect without.
Vegan Richa Support
you’re so kind Rita
Chantal
One of my favourites, always a recipe I go back to. Thank you ❤️
Vegan Richa Support
Awesome!! Do leave a rating too!
Fabíola
Amazing flavour! We really loved it here!
Vegan Richa Support
Amazing!!
Laurie
Made this yesterday, SO Moist and tasty!!-) We added a bit more lemon zest and it added a nice lemon flavor but not overpowering. Thank you for your blog, and your cookbooks! I love the flavors your dishes provide.
Vegan Richa Support
That’s great! appreciate your support
Oana
I’ve made this a few times already and we really enjoyed it (friends and family who tasted it). Thanks!
Rini
I have made this yummy blueberry loaf several times! Every time I serve it , people have asked me for the recipe! It’s easy, soft, lemony and deliciously healthy!
I use wegman’s almond yogurt!
Vegan Richa Support
Awesome
Dave
Amazing, moist and sweet and lemony! I swapped oil for apple sauce and came out great.
Vegan Richa Support
awesome, thanks for coming by ♡
Gabrielle
Can I substitute the spelt flour with buckwheat or gluten-free oat flour to make this gluten free?
Vegan Richa Support
Hi buckwheat won’t work and most gf blends are rice heavy and They usually don’t work out well for me so I use my own blend. Try this one and bake into muffins. Bake a test muffin to see if the batter needs adjustment. Gluten-free: Mix 3/4 cup white rice flour, 1 1/4 cup almond flour, 1/3 cup potato starch, 1/2 tsp citric acid and 1 tbsp chia seeds/flax seed meal. Use 1 3/4 cup of the flour mix and add more as needed.
GABRIELLE OTTAVIO
Thank you so very much
Janene
I’ve never really made anything lemon flavored before. I added an extra table spoon of lemon because it didn’t seem like enough. I’m still not too satisfied with the lemon taste. Maybe I’m used to tasting artificial lemon candies? The cake turned out perfect other wise! I used a ceramic loaf dish so I turned my oven down 25⁰F and baked an additional 20 minutes.
Richa
Add more lemon zest for more lemon flavor
Tamara
I made it two times and LOVED the texture – it’s moist and just the right kind of elastic! I think however that the recipe needs more lemon. I tasted the batter and it did taste lemon-y, so I didn’t add any, but the finished cake definitely would have benefited from some more.
Richa
Add more zest
Jollyon Benn
Fantastically straight forward recipe. Great tip to use silken tofu. Very happy with the results, though thought it would be more cakey than bready.
Vegan Richa Support
thank you very much.
tabita Iordache
I made this today as a cake and is delicious. I added citrus essence and topped with a cashew frosting ,loved it just as I loved every single recipe I tried from Richa
Vegan Richa Support
sounds delectable ! thank you for the sweet review
Laura
Ooh, would you mind sharing the cashew frosting?
Deepti
Made this in a 9 inch square dish and it turned out great after 40 min of bake time. Other than that followed the recipe. Thanks! Another good one from you.
Meredith
Such a delicious recipe, you would never suspect it is vegan! The cake was entirely gone in less than 24 hours!
I have a question, I followed the recipe with a few exceptions: I substituted red currants for blueberries and I baked I a fan oven at 160 C. My loaf was a little wet and heavy – it rose beautifully in the oven, then fell. I am sure that it is something that I did, I am just not an experienced enough baker to know how to fix it! Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks for the wonderful recipe, I can’t wait to make it again!
Vegan Richa Support
great, thank you!! I’m sorry that it didn’t turn out for you. The oven needs to be at 180 C.
Richa
It just needed a longer bake time with the adjustment of the temperature and using the fan oven. I regular oven without the fan and 180°C. If it was rising well that means it would have baked to a nice loaf. It fell because the inside hadn’t fully cooked through
Meredith
Thank you so much for responding! I am going to make it again this week, I will bake longer to make sure it is completely done.
Richa
Great , Voice to text is crappy 🙂 as you saw on earlier comment 🙂
Bella Ra
I’m sorry to say that this recipe was a disaster :(. My loaf was cake goop. It was super heavy, and didn’t even resemble cake. My baking powder was good, I check after. I was sad to have thrown away many ingredients.
Richa
Did you change anything in the recipe? If baking powder was good then it sounds like there was too much moisture for the flour balance
Saankhya
Any suggestions on how I can sub coconut flour instead of white flour here? Looks delicious!
Richa
You cannot. Coconut flour is gluten-free and needs eight times more moisture Then regular flour. So a direct sub doesn’t work
Ben
Hi Richa! I’ve tried the cake and it tasted nice! But the middle-centre was a bit “heavy” and doughy looking. What could it be? To much liquid? Thanks!
Vegan Richa Support
Try it at 355* instead of 365* and may have to go to 70 minutes. If you had a light pan instead of a dark this would help also.
Madhavi Kapoor
This is amazing! I’ve made it once and had to stop myself from eating the whole thing in one day. Lol. I’m trying to steer clear of vegetable/canola oil now and was wondering if you could recommend a different oil to use in this recipe! Thanks in advance!
Vegan Richa Support
good self-control! i can’t always say the same. coconut oil would be nice – choose refined if you don’t want any scent of coconut whatsoever but the lemon zest and juice do have a lot of flavour so it shouldn’t be an issue. Also, the standby ‘evoo’ (extra virgin olive oil) or even normal Olive oil. or nut oils such as macadamia or hazlenut.
Dorothy Mora
When you refer to powdered sugar, do you mean confectioner’s sugar as one would use to make icing?
Thank you
Vegan Richa Support
You got it !
Joanne
Hi,
I haven’t tried the recipe yet, but I always look through readers’ comments before I try any new recipes. I am impressed by your response to people who had trouble with the batter, either due to old baking powder or using GF flours. This kind of response is very helpful. You also give detailed responses for people who ask about substituting other ingredients. I will definitely subscribe to your blog. Thank you.
Vegan Richa Support
Thank you Joanne. Flexibility is key. I’m glad that you found me!
Julieann
YES YES and YES! 🙂
Vegan Richa Support
YES
Andrew Englund
How many servings are in each cake? Interested to see the nutritional breakdown.
Vegan Richa Support
There are 6 servings per recipe – 289kcal per serving.
Nicole
This was advertised on google gluten free friendly so I subbed gluten free all purpose flour and changed nothing else. The loaf was still completely raw after cooking for over an hour. So disappointing after all of that work.
Richa
Most gf blends are rice heavy and They usually don’t work out well for me so I use my own blend. Try this one and bake into muffins. Bake a test muffin to see if the batter needs adjustment. Gluten-free: Mix 3/4 cup white rice flour, 1 1/4 cup almond flour, 1/3 cup potato starch, 1/2 tsp citric acid and 1 tbsp chia seeds/flax seed meal. Use 1 3/4 cup of the flour mix and add more as needed.
Gabriella
Hi,
I made this gluten free using your suggestion in the above reply. It was absolutely delicious but the cake cracked on the top. I did include the baking powder, baking soda, and salt from the main recipe. I’m wondering if I should have just used the mixture you stated in the reply above instead of adding those other ingredients. Also I live at a high altitude so maybe that had an impact. Any suggestions would be very helpful. Thank you!
Richa
At higher altitudes you need less of the baking powder and soda. Depending on the altitude you can reduce it by 25% or more. That would explain the cracking.
Gabriella
Thank you!
Gabriella
I tried your suggestion to reduce the baking powder and baking soda. The cake didn’t crack and held together much better. Your recipes are the best gluten free recipes I’ve ever made. Thank you for your outstanding website. It is a treat to browse around your site and select new recipes to make. Sometimes I wish there were more meals in a day so I could try more delicious meals and deserts!
Vegan Richa Support
Hooray – i’m glad it worked out
Sarah Jones
Hello
This recipe looks awesome. Can I use self raising flour for the recipe?
Richa
yes, still add half of baking powder.
Sarah
Thank you so much for replying! I made this on Sunday and it was so delicious thank you for your advice. I also made it gf with gf self-raising flour – the lightest fluffiest vegan and gf cake I have ever made 😊
Vegan Richa Support
your welcome! thank you! glad to hear
Susan
I made this cake with strawberries and fennel, and it was amazing!!
Anela
Hi!
The cake looks gorgeous, would it also work with gluten free flour? Or buckweat flour?
Vegan Richa Support
Hi buckwheat won’t work and most gf blends are rice heavy and They usually don’t work out well for me so I use my own blend. Try this one and bake into muffins. Bake a test muffin to see if the batter needs adjustment. Gluten-free: Mix 3/4 cup white rice flour, 1 1/4 cup almond flour, 1/3 cup potato starch, 1/2 tsp citric acid and 1 tbsp chia seeds/flax seed meal. Use 1 3/4 cup of the flour mix and add more as needed.
Gugs
Could I use agarve rather than sugar!! Thank you x
Richa
that would add a lot of moisture. you will need a bit more flour. Add enough till the batter is stiff
Tree
Terrible. I baked it over an hour and a half and it was still raw on the bottom.
Richa
there might thave been something wrong with the batter, like extra moisture or the baking powder was old and hence didnt leaven the cake enough, which would explain it not cooking through as the batter would stay more batter like.
Sarah F
This is a seriously good recipe!
I made it white with self-raising flour (it’s all I had) but dropped the baking powder down to 1 tsp.
I baked it as muffins rather than a loaf (wanted a shorter baking time) – it made 7 muffins. Could have squeezed it into 6. I baked them for about 25 mins at 175C.
Jessi Hill
I made this recipe, it turned out lovely. I wanted a stronger lemon flavor so I subbed 2 additional tablespoons of the milk for lemon juice and added a few drops of lemon extract. Also, I used frozen wild berries and I baked in a Bundt pan for 35 minutes instead. I made a lemon glaze with butter, cream cheese, confectioners sugar and lots of lemon juice. with a bit of cream cheese to finish it out. (all vegan of course)
Miquela
Am I able to substitute rice malt syrup for the sugar?
Richa
it might work, reduce the other liquid ingredients byhalf
Leah
Any adjustments for regular all purpose flour?
Richa
just add more flour if the mixture is not stiff. you might need 2 to 4 tbsp more flour
Michelle Petitto
I’ve made this 3 times now. This is one of the best recipes I’ve ever made. All of your recipes are amazing.
Richa
yay!
Benny
I made it in my bread machine and used frozen blueberries and it turned out lovely.
Used wholemeal spelt flour.
Stela
Hello. Can I substitute evaporated milk (unsweetened) to the plain milk, and also – how thick should the yoghurt be, like how many per cent fat? Thank you in advance!
Terra
I used so delicious vanilla yogurt, accidentally used a whole pint of blueberries and it still turned out beautifully! Thanks for the recipe! 💓
Yosiday
You recipe looks great! But would this work if I try to make it for a cake? My son’s first birthday it’s coming soon and I’ll like to try this recipe. If so what size pan and temperature do you recommend?
Richa
Yes, you can make in 1 9inch cake pan. If you want tomake a layer cake, then bake into two 6 inch cakes. For the 6 inch, check with a toothpick from the center at 30 mins, for 9 inch, check at 40 mins and bake for another 10 mins if not done.
Anne
Hi there! If I don’t have parchment paper, what would you suggest I use in the pan before pouring in the batter?
Richa
you can grease the pan really well. then sprinkle a light dusting of flour all over. and then add the batter to the pan
Thomas
Hi, looks great. Can I use frozen blueberries? If so, do I need them to thaw first?
Richa
yes, rinse them in warm water to remove the excess juices they have stuck to them as those will turn the batter blue. Drain well, let them sit for 5 mins or so to slightly thaw, and toss in 1 tbsp flour before using. Usually i works out just fine as thats the time you would need to make the batter before folding in.
Lieke
I made this the other day and it was really nice 🙂 For some reason the bottom was quiet heavy and soggy, it looked like the oil sunk to the bottom of the cake. How can I prevent this from happening? Did I use the wrong kind of oil?
Richa
did the Cake rise during baking and then fall? that explains the heavyness at the bottom. It can be either that the baking powder was old so i didnt rise much, or if there was more moisture inthe batter and it needed a bit more flour to be able to rise well. The extra moisture sometimes can make the loaves fall and hence get dense. Or it probably just needed extra bake time(oven temps can vary).
Check if your baking powder is good, then add a few tbsp more flour to make a stiff batter and bake until a toothpick fromthe center comes out compeletely clean.
Aviva
I’ve made this recipe many times and everyone loves it! So easy to make too.
Wondering if this recipe would work as cupcakes?
Richa
yes! check at 22 mins then bake a few mins more if needed
Aviva
Thank you!!!
Shiree
This was delicious! Had all the ingredients in hand so I made it while I cooked soup last night. My picky toddler loved it! I used vanilla silk yogurt. Thanks for the recipe 😁