Brioche Cake with Wild Blueberry Jam and Lemon Streusel

Ingredients:

  • Brioche Cake: 80g milk, 1 tsp. active dry yeast, 1 tbsp. sugar, 160g flour, ½ tsp. salt, 1 egg, 42g butter.
  • Wild Blueberry Jam: 420g frozen wild blueberries, 100g sugar, zest of 1 lemon, 45g lemon juice, 32g corn starch, 45g water.
  • Lemon Streusel: 60g butter, 90g light brown sugar, 120g flour, zest of 1 lemon.
  • Lemon Icing (Optional): 90g powdered sugar, 2 tbsp. lemon juice.

Instructions:

  1. Brioche Cake Preparation:
    • Butter & line an 8" or 9" cake pan with crinkled parchment.
    • Warm milk, whisk in yeast & sugar, and let foam (~5 mins).
    • In a stand mixer with dough hook, combine flour, salt, egg, butter, and yeast mixture.
    • Knead until dough passes the windowpane test.
    • Allow dough to rise (overnight in fridge or ~1 hr at room temp).
    • Shape dough into a circle in the cake pan, let rise again (~30 min).
  2. Wild Blueberry Jam:
    • In a saucepan, simmer blueberries, sugar, lemon zest & juice.
    • Whisk water & corn starch, add to blueberries, stir until thickened.
  3. Lemon Streusel:
    • Melt butter, mix in sugar, flour, & lemon zest until clumpy.
  4. Assembly & Baking:
    • Preheat oven to 350°F / 175°C.
    • Spread jam over risen dough, top with streusel.
    • Bake for 35-40 mins until internal temp reaches 190°F / 88°C.
  5. Lemon Icing (Optional):
    • Mix powdered sugar & lemon juice; drizzle over cooled cake.
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