Blackberry Cake!

[craigedibleleeds]

Made this cake after finding myself with a bonus harvest of fat, succulent, juicy, early season blackberries.

250g Blackberries (Fatter/Sweeter/Earlier = Better) + extra to garnish
250g Unsalted Butter
250g Sugar (I mixed Golden Granulated/Soft Brown: 180g/70g)
250g Plain Flour
4 Large Free Range Eggs
3-4 Tsp Baking Powder

Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees

Using a food mixer, cream the butter and sugar together until light n creamy. Add the eggs one at a time n mix well. Add the blackberries and whizz just a couple of times (you want to keep some texture to the berries, or maybe you don't). In a separate bowl combine the flour and baking powder. Add the mixture to the bowl and fold together. Once well combined put the mixture in a cake tin, smooth over and add extra blackberries to the mixture by pressing them gently in. Put in a pre-heated oven, 180 degrees, for approx 45 mins (mine took 47 mins exactly!).

Will hopefully add a picture once I work out how to and some further serving suggestions (warm, with single cream n a cuppa tea works just dandy!)

Enjoy

[foragingmouse]

Nice one bud I'm making this tomorrow with my girls I'll post pics :-)

[Mafro]

That sounds awesome.

[edenwildfood]

my only issue with blackberries in plain sponge type cakes is they turn it quite grey. For aesthetics blackberries work better in a chocolate cake. But I bet this tastes great.

[Mafro]

The hardest thing I find is getting them home, my son (nearly 3) loves them. Will quite happily scoff everything we pick.

[Brewforagegrow]

My youngest little one (nearly 2) tried blackberries properly for the first time today, she couldn't get enough of them.
We were only grazing as we were geocaching so don't have any to make this yet, but guarantee I will be when we've picked a few. Not going to be tomorrow though given the storms which are meant to be coming in!

[emmac]

sounds lovely!

might adapt to fold in to banana cake but agree on discolouration thing. chocolate blackberry cake mmmmmm!

[foragingmouse]

Changed it a bit but it's great I made a simple syrup and added the blackberries after cooking so cured the colour issue 

[Brewforagegrow]

I've got to be one of the only people who isn't really a fan of chocolate cake. I'd prefer discoloured and plain myself

Looks like yours turned out awesome Kris (can I call it yours?)

[foragingmouse]

No my girls take the credit on this one :-)

[emmac]

Aug 10, 2014 18:35:16 GMT Brewforagegrow said:

I've got to be one of the only people who isn't really a fan of chocolate cake

clearly you are insane

[Brewforagegrow]

Aug 10, 2014 19:04:16 GMT emmac said:

Aug 10, 2014 18:35:16 GMT Brewforagegrow said:

I've got to be one of the only people who isn't really a fan of chocolate cake

clearly you are insane

Maybe a little.
Chocolate. Yes
Cake. Yes
Chocolate cake. No

I am partial to brownies though ☺

[lucyblack]

Ooh! Last night we made a wheat free chocolate cake - it was made with almonds and stuff, it's really good. Anyway, we were going to fold brambles through it, I'm glad we didn't as I didn't know they went grey! Anyway, what we did instead was, instead of making a chocolate sauce topping, we reduced the brambles down with a pile of sugar to make a kind of syrup, then poured it over the cake, and served the warm brambles on the side. I can't tell you how delicious it was!