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Updated 2025-05-08T19:41:22Z
- I made Ina Garten's blueberry-ricotta meal cake, which she said is cleanable for Mother's Day.
- The barroom is light, delicious, and ace moist. It's besides truly casual to marque up of time.
- "This was superb," my ma declared. "I springiness it a 10/10."
I've been whipping up Ina Garten's dishes for years and ever emotion trying her breakfast and dessert recipes.
Whether it's her cacio e pepe scrambled eggs oregon her famous mocha icebox cake, the "Barefoot Contessa" prima is ever creating amusive twists connected classical dishes.
Garten said this blueberry-ricotta meal barroom is cleanable for Mother's Day, truthful I knew I had to trial it connected my ain mom.
Let's spot what she thought!
Ina Garten's meal barroom features ricotta, citrus zest, and plentifulness of blueberries.
To marque Garten's blueberry-ricotta meal cake, which serves eight, you'll need:
- 2 cups (12 ounces) of caller blueberries
- 1 ¼ cups of all-purpose flour
- 1 cupful of whole-milk ricotta
- 1 cupful of granulated sugar
- 10 tablespoons (1 ¼ sticks) of unsalted butter, astatine country temperature
- 3 extra-large eggs, astatine country temperature
- 2 tablespoons of sour cream
- 1 tablespoonful of baking powder
- 1 spoon of axenic vanilla extract
- 1 spoon of grated citrus zest
- Sifted powdered sugar, for dusting
Before I began making Garten's meal cake, I needed to bash a small prep.
I grated the citrus zest truthful it would beryllium acceptable to spell erstwhile I was mixing the batter.
I besides preheated the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and greased and floured my pan.
Garten recommends utilizing a 9-inch circular springform cookware for this dish.
Then, it was clip to marque the batter!
First, I added the food and sweetener to the vessel of my electrical mixer, which was fitted with the paddle attachment.
I bushed the food and sweetener unneurotic connected mean velocity for 3 minutes, until the substance was airy and fluffy.
I made definite to scrape down the sides of the vessel with a rubber spatula arsenic needed.
Then, I added the eggs, ricotta, sour cream, vanilla, and citrus zest.
I turned the mixer to debased and added 1 ovum astatine a time, mixing good aft each addition. Then, I threw the ricotta, sour cream, vanilla, and citrus zest into the mixture.
Garten notes that your batter volition look curdled astatine this stage, truthful don't interest if it appears that way!
I mixed my adust ingredients unneurotic successful a abstracted bowl.
I added the flour, baking powder, and 1 spoon of brackish and gave everything a speedy stir.
Then, I added the adust ingredients to the batter.
I dilatory added the adust ingredients with the mixer inactive connected debased until they were conscionable incorporated.
Once my batter was ready, I began adding the blueberries.
I folded two-thirds of my 2 cups of blueberries into the batter utilizing a rubber spatula.
Then, I transferred the batter into my springform pan.
I made definite to creaseless the apical of the batter.
I added the remaining blueberries connected apical of the cake.
Garten recommends lightly pressing each blueberry into the surface.
It was clip to bake!
Garten recommends baking the barroom for 45 to 55 minutes, until a toothpick inserted successful the halfway comes retired clean. It took astir 50 minutes for my barroom to bake.
Every oven is different, truthful support checking connected your barroom each mates of minutes aft you deed the 45-minute mark.
Once my barroom was ready, I transferred it to a ligament rack.
Garten says the barroom needs to chill successful the cookware for an further 15 minutes.
I removed the sides of my springform cookware and lightly dusted the apical with powdered sugar. The barroom looked beautiful.
Garten's blueberry-ricotta meal barroom decidedly makes for an awesome centerpiece.
Its warm, aureate hue looked truthful saccharine and comforting successful my kitchen, and the agleam bursts of blueberry added immoderate joyful pops of color.
When I chopped a slice, it was wide that the barroom would beryllium delightfully fluffy.
I could spot a generous magnitude of blueberries successful each slice, and the barroom smelled incredible.
My parents and I loved Garten's blueberry-ricotta meal cake.
Garten's meal barroom tastes arsenic airy and fluffy arsenic it looks. The ricotta and sour pick support each wound ace moist, conscionable arsenic Garten promised, and the saccharine blueberries brace good with the zingy and agleam citrus zest, which truly shines through.
The barroom besides had a bully crust connected the outside, which added immoderate contrasting texture to the ace brushed and luscious middle.
"This was superb," my ma declared. "I springiness it a 10/10."
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