Blueberry-Lemon Icebox Cake

Blueberry-Lemon Icebox Cake – tender pound cake layered betwixt fluffy lemon curd mascarpone cream together with a fresh huckleberry sauce for a wonderful frozen dessert you’ll live thrilled to serve your guests.  

And your guests volition be thrilled also … particularly if you lot spell it prissy together with thick, together with glob some other spoonful of the huckleberry sauce correct on top.  I beloved a make-ahead dessert that is easily sliced as needed, together with this Blueberry-Lemon Icebox Cake is needed at our house!

 

 

First of all … in that location are difficult working men inwards my kitchen today.  They’re non cooking but doing something therefore much to a greater extent than exciting.  They’re laying a novel tile floor.  Over the lastly four months I’ve mentioned our kitchen renovation together with hinted at the constant problems.   If something could larn wrong, it did.  However, subsequently a tremendous amount of perseverance, nosotros direct hold novel cabinets, countertops, most of our appliances direct hold been re-installed together with today they’re laying the tile floor.  I beloved our team and they’ve gone inwards a higher identify together with beyond when it comes to seeing this through.

With temperatures close 100 degrees hither inwards Virginia today, I know our structure team will savor this mutual frigidity together with creamy dessert subsequently working difficult inwards my kitchen all day!

These guys are peachy taste-testers together with I can’t await to take heed what they state almost this one.  Even though I similar them both rattling much, I’m ready for them to be gone for proficient so I tin larn my draw of piece of occupation solid back, together with particularly my dishwasher!  Oh how I’ve missed my dishwasher.  I’m starting to experience similar a food blogger without a kitchen.   Even though my kitchen may be functional inwards a few days, in that location is nonetheless enough of particular piece of occupation to live done.  It’s non over yet but prayers are being answered today!

 

Don’t live put-off yesteryear the layering together with assembly of the icebox cake.

Once all the components are ready, it comes together easily.  Take a petty extra time to popular the cake inwards the freezer subsequently adding each layer – if solely for 10 minutes or so.  It volition make the terminal production much prettier together with a petty to a greater extent than tidy when sliced.

 

Icebox cakes are therefore much fun to make.  Most recipes include layers of your favorite H2O ice cream, together with I beloved those too!

However, there is something therefore refreshing almost this lemon curd infused mascarpone cream.  The cream freezes beautifully together with in i lawsuit it rests at room temperature for a few minutes, it softens into a light together with fluffy cloud of lemon, without melting into a puddle.   Don’t larn me incorrect … I beloved a proficient H2O ice cream pool but on actually hot days – this is perfect because it won’t melt completely.

 

If you lot don’t wishing to brand homemade pound cake, no worries; buy a pre-made or frozen cake together with spell it up.

Not into homemade huckleberry sauce?  Buy a proficient jounce of huckleberry jam … nosotros won’t tell.

Never made like shooting fish in a barrel homemade lemon curd?  You tin purchase that also but don’t skip this homemade lemon mascarpone cream.  With solely v ingredients the cream mixes upwardly inwards simply a few minutes together with actually makes this dessert something special.

Lemons together with blueberries are a classic combination for desserts together with baked goods.  Each layer of this Blueberry-Lemon Icebox Cake stands on it’s own but also blends together beautifully.

 

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Blueberry-Lemon Icebox Cake

Tender pound cake layered betwixt fluffy lemon curd mascarpone cream together with a fresh huckleberry sauce for a wonderful frozen dessert you'll live thrilled to serve all summertime long!

Course:

Dessert

Servings: 10 servings

Author: Tricia

Ingredients

For the huckleberry sauce:

• 
  3
  cups
  fresh blueberries
  plus 1/3 cup, divided
  


• 
  1/2
  cup
  granulated sugar
  


• 
  2
  tablespoons
  water
  


• 
  juice of 1/2 a large lemon
  about 1 tablespoon
  

For the lemon cream:

• 
  8
  ounces
  mascarpone cheese,
  room temperature
  


• 
  3/4
  cup
  powdered sugar
  


• 
  zest of 1 large lemon
  


• 
  2
  cups
  (16-ounces) heavy whipping cream
  


• 
  1
  cup
  store-bought or homemade lemon curd,
  divided
  


• 
  1
  9x5 pound cake,
  trimmed of top, bottom together with sides (saved for some other use)
  

Instructions

To brand the huckleberry sauce:

1. 
   

   Combine three cups of fresh (or frozen) blueberries amongst 1/2 loving cup granulated saccharide together with 2 tablespoons H2O inwards a deep saucepan. Heat on medium until the mixtures begins to boil. Reduce the estrus slightly to hold a simmer, together with ready until the blueberries popular together with the sauce thickens, almost v minutes. Add the lemon juice together with ready until the mixture is almost reduced yesteryear one-half (about 10 minutes.) You volition bespeak 1 1/2 cups of sauce. Remove from the estrus together with cool. Refrigerate until ready to use. (Keep the extra 1/3 loving cup of fresh blueberries ready - they are added at the end.)

   
   


2. 
   
   When ready to brand the icebox cake, draw a 9x5 inch loaf pan amongst plastic wind making sure in that location is a lot of extra hangover on all sides. Set aside.
   
   


3. 
   

   Prepare the pound cake yesteryear slicing into 1/2" pieces removing the black ends, together with sides if desired for a prettier presentation. Set aside.

   
   

To railroad train the lemon cream:

1. 
   
   In the bowl of a stand upwardly mixer combine the mascarpone cheese, powdered sugar, together with lemon zest. Blend until smooth. Turn the mixer on depression together with tardily add together the whipping cream until it's incorporated together with starting to thicken. Increase the speed to medium, together with then high, together with crunch until medium peaks form. It won't accept long.
   
   


2. 
   
   Transfer 1/3 of the cream to a container amongst a tight plumbing equipment lid together with refrigerate until needed. This volition live used to "ice" the cake.
   
   


3. 
   
   Gently crimp inwards 1/2 loving cup of lemon curd into the remaining mascarpone mixture. Now you're ready to get together the icebox cake.
   
   


4. 
   
   Place a layer of pound cake inwards the bottom of the prepared pan, cutting to gibe equally needed. Spread 1/4 of the lemon cream over the cake together with utilisation the dorsum of a spoon to smoothen the surface (place the remaining lemon cream inwards the fridge until needed again).
   
   


5. 
   
   Place the pan inwards the freezer for 5-10 minutes, together with then spoon 1/2 loving cup of the huckleberry sauce inwards mounds over the lemon cream. Spread gently amongst a create clean spoon to comprehend the cream. Place the pan dorsum inwards the freezer for almost 10 minutes.
   
   


6. 
   
   Drizzle 1/4 loving cup of the lemon curd over the huckleberry sauce. Spoon 1/3 of the remaining lemon cream over the curd together with smoothen evenly amongst the dorsum of a spoon. Top amongst some other layer of pound cake.
   
   


7. 
   
   Repeat the procedure amongst 1/2 of the remaining lemon cream, 1/2 loving cup huckleberry sauce, together with the remaining lemon curd, freezing betwixt layers equally needed.
   
   


8. 
   
   Finish amongst a layer of lemon cream together with a terminal layer of pound cake. The cake may extend over the exceed of the pan depending on how thick you lot cutting the pound cake. This is where you lot bespeak that extra long pieces of plastic wind to come upwardly up together with over the cake to agree it all in.
   
   


9. 
   
   Wrap the entire cake inwards plastic wind together with freeze for at to the lowest degree 8 hours or overnight.
   
   


10. 
    
    When ready to serve, take the plastic wind together with invert the cake onto a serving platter. Peel off the plastic wind together with trim the sides of the cake amongst a knife, if desired, to brand a similar a shot edge.
    
    


11. 
    
    Spread the exceed together with sides of the cake amongst the remaining mascarpone cream. If needed, whisk the cream until soft peaks shape again.
    
    


12. 
    
    Place the iced cake inwards the freezer at to the lowest degree xv minutes or until ready to serve.
    
    


13. 
    
    To serve, mix the 1/3 loving cup fresh blueberries into the remaining huckleberry sauce together with spoon over the cake.
    
    

Recipe Notes

The cake tin live made 2 days ahead. Cover together with travel on frozen.

Mascarpone cream together with the layering adapted from a recipe inwards Bon Appetit Magazine, July 2016

Blueberry sauce tin live replaced amongst proficient lineament huckleberry jam.
Homemade lemon curd tin live replaced amongst store-bought.

To brand homemade pound cake - endeavor our recipe institute HERE.

You may direct hold leftover pound cake depending on how thick it was sliced. Freeze for utilisation inwards other recipes or equally an add-in to H2O ice cream.

 

 

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We beloved the combination of huckleberry together with lemon inwards simply almost everything similar these Easy Blueberry Crumb Bars, together with these delightful Lemon Blueberry Muffins amongst Crumble Topping. And don’t immature adult woman this classic Blueberry Lemon Pound Cake recipe too!

Here are a few to a greater extent than icebox cakes you lot mightiness like!

• Pineapple Icebox Cake from Brown Eyed Baker


• Icebox Tiramisu from The View from Great Island


• Boston Cream Pie Ice Box Cake from Dinner, Dishes together with Desserts


• No Bake Pistachio Icebox Cake from Spend With Pennies


• German Chocolate Icebox Cake from A Dash of Sanity

Our temperatures are going to live crazy hot this weekend amongst 100+ degrees.  These sure are the domestic dog days of summertime together with nosotros are very thankful for air conditioning!  Most of all I promise you lot direct hold a wonderful weekend together with thank you lot therefore much for stopping by!

Tricia

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