Lavender, lemon and almond cake

Name: Lavender, lemon and almond cake
Yield: Serves 6 to 8
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons cream; 3 tablespoons flaked almonds; 3 tablespoons chopped candied lemon peel; 3 eggs, beaten with; a drop of culinary lavender essence; 50 g/2 oz / ¼ cup caster sugar; 115 g /4 oz / 1 stick unsalted butter, softened; 50 g/2 oz / ¼ cup lavender sugar; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 150 g/5 oz/1¼ cups self-raising flour, sifted with

Preparation info

Serves
6 to 8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Floral Baker

By Frances Bissell

Published 2014

About

You can make this cake quickly in a food-processor or mixer.

Ingredients

115 g /4 oz / 1 stick unsalted butter, softened
50

Dessert
Cake
Baking
Vegetarian

Method

Line or grease and flour a 20 or 25 cm/8 or 10 inch round or square cake tin.

Cream the butter and sugar in a food-processor and then add the flour, baking powder, cream and eggs. By hand, stir the