Lemon & Elderflower Cake 🍋🍰💛
After a drought of many many months I finally baked again.
Not sure why I stopped baking or posting in general, I certainly didn’t stop cooking; it was a combination of kids not visiting so often, trying to stick to a healthy diet (more hubby than me! 😅) and a general ‘can’t be bothered’ malaise, which all contributed to less interesting dinner choices and no extra baking just for fun!
Anyway I’m back and am now going to post more often and really focus on this website!
So for this cake, ever since Prince William and Kate got married I was intrigued by their chosen wedding cake flavour of Elderflower and lemon cake so I thought I’d try it.
Firstly, irrespective of, if you try this cake in its entirety or not, the sponge recipe alone deserves noting down.
In all my years of baking I have never made such a gorgeous sponge. It was light and airy but had a real weight of proper cake and good flavour.
The overall lemon & elderflower combo was definitely a hit, I really enjoyed the floral notes of the elderflower
Grease and line 2 8 inch sandwich tins
Sponge: Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy
Add eggs one by one, add vanilla, lemon zest & juice & milk
Fold in flour & baking powder
Pour into tins and bake for 20 mins or until done on gas mark 180 degrees
For the syrup, combine ingredients and heat until sugar has dissolved
Prick cakes with fork and pour over syrup
For the frosting, beat frosting ingredients for 5mins until fluffy
Remove cakes from tins and layer some frosting on one cake, top with the other an frost the top as desired.
Enjoy!
Ingredients
Directions
Grease and line 2 8 inch sandwich tins
Sponge: Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy
Add eggs one by one, add vanilla, lemon zest & juice & milk
Fold in flour & baking powder
Pour into tins and bake for 20 mins or until done on gas mark 180 degrees
For the syrup, combine ingredients and heat until sugar has dissolved
Prick cakes with fork and pour over syrup
For the frosting, beat frosting ingredients for 5mins until fluffy
Remove cakes from tins and layer some frosting on one cake, top with the other an frost the top as desired.
Enjoy!