A Blackberry Cake with cream cheese frosting is the perfect recipe made with fresh blackberries.
Homemade Blackberry Cake
I created and wrote about this amazing Homemade Blackberry Cake with cream cheese frosting recipe last year. It’s one of the best desserts I have ever made that isn’t chocolate.
This blackberry cake recipe is made with fresh blackberries and is the perfect summer cake.
This is the most fabulous cake. I made several cakes and finally came up with a version that I LOVE enough to share. Enjoy!!
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups fresh blackberries
- 1 pinch of cinnamon
- 2 1/4 cups sugar (split)
- 1 cup softened butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 4 eggs at room temperature
- 3 cups self-rising flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons lemon instant pudding mix
- 1 cup of milk
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350°. Grease and lightly flour three round 8-inch cake pans and set aside. (I use baking spray with flour.)
2. Mix 1/4 of sugar, a pinch of cinnamon and blackberries in a bowl and set aside.
3. Combine flour, pudding mix and salt in a small mixing bowl.
4. Beat butter or margarine with a mixer at medium speed until it’s whipped and fluffy.
5. Add the remaining sugar (2 cups) and vanilla, beat well.
6. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
7. Add dry flour mixture and milk alternately, beating on low speed after each addition.
8. Place berries in cake pan.
9. Pour batter over the berries and lighting swirl with a spoon.
10. Lightly tap the cake pan on the counter until the batter has spread in the entire pan.
11. Bake 25 to 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
12. Cool for 10 minutes before removing cake from pans.
When cake is completely cool, stack layers and ice the cake with butter cream icing.
It’s soooo good!!!
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Blackberry Cake
Blackberry Cake
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups fresh blackberries
- 1 pinch cinnamon
- 2 ¼ cups sugar split
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 4 eggs room temperature
- 3 cups self-rising flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons lemon instant pudding mix
- 1 cup milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°. Grease and lightly flour three round 8-inch cake pans and set aside. (I use baking spray with flour.)
- Mix 1/4 of sugar, a pinch of cinnamon and blackberries in a bowl and set aside.
- Combine flour, pudding mix and salt in a small mixing bowl.
- Beat butter or margarine with a mixer at medium speed until it's whipped and fluffy
- Add the remaining sugar (2 cups) and vanilla, beat well.
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Add dry flour mixture and milk alternately, beating on low speed after each addition.
- Place berries in cake pan.
- Pour batter over the berries and lighting swirl with a spoon.
- Lightly tap the cake pan on the counter until the batter has spread in the entire pan.
- Bake 25 to 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Cool for 10 minutes before removing cake from pans.
- When cake is completely cool, stack layers and ice the cake with butter cream icing.
Nutrition
I made 3 layers with this recipe. They were thin layers as you can see in the photo.
Hello, does your recipe make one layer?
Looks SO GOOD!
It, s berry season! YUMMY!
A friend just sent me this link. Yum, we just got back from picking blackberries in GA so I’m all over this yummy looking cake. TFS.
oh yummmmmm
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That looks sooo good!
That looks absolutely scrumptious!
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The little Oklahoma town I live in has a great little farm to go pick blackberries and now I know what the first thing I will make with those fresh berries! YUMMY, thanks for sharing
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wait while I get a napkin to wipe the drool off my face….okay I’m back….looks so yummy! =)
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Thank you so much for this recipe! Dewberries should be showing their little heads soon around these parts. My kids love to pick these wild berries. And now I have a recipe I can use them in. Yay!
WOW! This cake looks and sounds delicious!
I have realized over the years that I am a total cake snob! I used to not like cake but after having a few homemade cakes, I realized that it was the box, store bought cakes that I didn’t like!
I can’t wait to try this.
Thanks for sharing!
This is NOT the week to be dieting! Looks SO yummy!
THANK YOU FOR THE LINK TO THE FROSTING RECIPE!
@Dawn,
I don’t have a special recipe, but try this one by Cheryl. It sounds yummy: http://www.tidymom.net/2010/04/raspberry-filled-vanilla-cupcakes.html
I cannot wait to make this….as soon as we pick blackberries this Summer at my parents’ farm! Every Summer I make Blackberry jelly {Lots of it!} but I have never made a Blackberry Cake – but I will! This looks so yummy! Thanks for sharing!
Wow! just wow…. need to make this NOW!!
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that looks amazing! thanks for sharing!
Would you mind sharing your buttercream frosting recipe?? I made a cake for Easter and made the buttercream frosting recipe on the sugar package, and I did not like it. To me it tasted like it was from a can! I would love if someone would share a foolproof, good, old-fashioned-style buttercream frosting recipe.
Thanks!
P.S. I luuuuuv anything blackberry, so I cannot WAIT to make this!!!!!!!!!!
I HEART BLACKBERRIES and I HEART CAKE so why not put them together!! AWESOME!! I can’t wait for the blackberry pickin
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I’m so excited for this week and next on IHF!!!
I’m so glad you posted this again Amy because I forgot I wanted to make this cake!! I have blackberries we picked at the cabin in our freezer!!
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I can hardly wait for this challenge and next wks dessert challenge! I finally have something I can add “to the pot” 🙂
Your cake looks delish!
~Liz
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@Dana-from chaos to Grace,
This is seriously worth it! 🙂
Mmm… looks delish!
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Makes me almost want to bake…..
almost. 😉
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Thank you so much for sharing the recipe to your cake! It looks fabulous!
Your photo is incredible as well!
CraftTeaLady (aka Gina)
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