Lemon Blueberry Sour Cream Cake Kermakakku

Lemon blueberry kermakakku finnish sour cream cake

Kermakakku is a favorite of mine. Kermakakku is a traditional Finnish cake. It is slightly dense with a hint of cardamom and almond. Translated Kermakakku is Cream Cake. I have been missing my childhood food lately. Maybe turning 40 has something to do with this. I made the original Finnish sour cream cake a few weeks ago, then on Saturday I made this lemon blueberry version. Love at first bite!

The lemon juice added a hint of lemon and made the cake moist. I didn’t add a glaze to the top but a lemon glaze would make it even better! I will add a recipe for that at the bottom of the post.

sifted dry ingredients for kermakakku — sifted dry ingredients

If you do not have a sifter. You can use a small strainer or colander and lightly tap the sides. Works like a charm.

finnish sour cream cake kermakakku — kermakakku batter

When the cake is done you will notice cracking on the top. Gently poke the cake with your finger, it should bounce back. You can also check the cake by poking it with a skewer or fork. If it come out clean it is finished.

Lemon Blueberry Sour Cream Cake Kermakakku

This lush kermakakku will be the hit of the party. Serves 18 so there is plenty to go around

Course Dessert

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour

Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes

Servings 18 people

Ingredients

2 whole eggs room temperature
2 cups sour cream
2 cups granulated sugar
2 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp ground cardamom
2 3/4 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 cup fresh blueberries

Instructions

Grease a bundt pan and sprinkle with 1 tbsp of granulated sugar. Heat oven to 350 degrees
In a mixing bowl cream together eggs and sour cream until smooth. Add lemon juice and cardamom
Sift together flour, salt and baking soda. Add to egg mixture. Mix until well blended.
Pour mixture into greased pan. Bake in a 350 degrees oven for 55-60 minutes. Check cake after 55 minutes. Use a fork or skewer to poke cake. If it comes out clean its done. If not bake extra 5 minutes. Cool cake for half an hour. With a knife gently scrape between pan and cake. Turn cake over slowly onto serving dish.

Lemon Glaze

1/2 cup powered sugar

1/2 tbsp lemon juice

Mix together. Drizzle over cooled cake

Flower Farmer inspiration

flower farming sources — Would love this farm setting

Here is a little of where I got my flower farmer inspiration. I do get some weird looks and questions from people when they find out I am growing flowers to sell. ” Sooo you like sell plants for people to buy….so what do you mean cut flowers? You must have a massive garden, wow I would love to see your yard. Where did you come up with that? That is interesting?” My answers though can be a little on the boring side. “No I don’t sell plants”, cut flowers, you know like the bouquets you can buy at the store….No I don’t have a massive garden and my yard is questionable. Although I do agree with the interesting part. It is also satisfying, addicting, and it takes work.

Books and Blogs

A few years ago I borrowed a book from the library called The flower farmer by Lynn Byczynski. I loved it. It was chalked full of information and inspiration. I did not really think about people actually ” farming flowers”. She had a small scale cut flower garden, that I copied on paper and was going to plant the following spring. I had no intention at that point to grow to sell. I bought the book!

I am not sure how I stumbled on floret. However this was the second batch of kindling that fueled my cut flower obsession. Erin Benzakein and her husband Chris have this amazing flower farming story. You should take the time to read a little about it. I also bought her book Cut Flower Garden . Amazing. Did I already say amazing..Erin also has a blog and sells seeds and tubers.

So one thing led to another and I decided to jump in. In the spring of 2017 I bought my first seeds from floret and Johnnys Seeds and got to work.

Another one of my sources of information has been from Curtis Stone ,he is an urban farmer from Kelowna British Columbia. I have learned a lot about soil management and crop rotation etc. Interesting stuff…

Continuing Education

I am convinced after my first year that I will be in constant learning mode. I hope to attend a few workshops in the coming year. It will be nice to learn “in real life mode”. I will keep you posted!

What’s happening in 2018

Hello! Happy 2018. I hope your Christmas and New Years holidays went well. Ours did. It is always so nice to take the time to reflect on what is truly important. I thought I would give you a quick peek at what happening here at Midwest Cut Flowers for 2018! Like always I have a hundred and fifty things I would like to do, but will probably only accomplish a few. Oh well, I am who I am right?

Branding

I finally had a professional logo made! I was so excited with the outcome!! Check it out.

The logo combines my flowers and my Etsy shop. I had Liz from just artin around design it. She was awesome to work with. I would recommend her! I can’t wait to order my business cards, stickers and tags.

Etsy shop

Speaking of my Etsy shop…. I have been lacking in keeping it updated and stocked with wonderful new and exciting items…..That however is supposed to change here in 2018! My plan is to add market bags, aprons and pot holders as I get them finished. My hope is to have a lot of inventory so I can be ready for the fall outdoor market at Mama’s Happy. This was such a great event that I am already in planning stages for it!

Cut Flowers

I have just ordered my flower seeds and dahlia bulbs. Most of my seeds are from Johnnys Seeds and this year I ordered bulbs from Swan Island Dahlias. Here are a few of the new dahlias and seeds that I ordered this year.

September Morn

Amber Queen

Queen Lime Orange Zinnia

Costa Mix Snapdragons

I am still hoping to get an order into Floret for some seeds. This is such a great website. It has been fun to follow them as their business has grown. Very inspiring.

Venues

I have another place that I am going to bringing my fresh cut flowers. It is right here in our small town of Delano. Red Rooster Soaps is an occasional shop that just opened in December. Exciting stuff. Stop by and check it out next time you are in town.

Blog

As for my blog, I am going to try hard and post at least once a week. If I don’t have time to ramble I will just post pictures of what is going on around here.