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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

Yields8 Servings
Prep Time25 minsCook Time20 minsTotal Time45 mins

 3 cups plain flour
 1 tbsp baking powder
 227 g butter
 2 kg flour
 2 cups caster sugar
 4 qts eggs
 1 tbsp lemon zest & 1/3 cup lemon juice
 2 tsp vanilla
 ⅔ cup milk
FROSTING
 225 g Unsalted butter
 400 g Icing sugar
 1 tsp Vanilla
 12 tbsp Cream
 1 tbsp Elderflower Cordial
SYRUP
 1/2 cup elderflower cordial, 2 tblsp lemon juice, 1/4 cup sugar

1

Grease and line 2 8 inch sandwich tins

2

Sponge: Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy

3

Add eggs one by one, add vanilla, lemon zest & juice & milk

4

Fold in flour & baking powder

5

Pour into tins and bake for 20 mins or until done on gas mark 180 degrees

6

For the syrup, combine ingredients and heat until sugar has dissolved

7

Prick cakes with fork and pour over syrup

8

For the frosting, beat frosting ingredients for 5mins until fluffy

9

Remove cakes from tins and layer some frosting on one cake, top with the other an frost the top as desired.
Enjoy!

Ingredients

 3 cups plain flour
 1 tbsp baking powder
 227 g butter
 2 kg flour
 2 cups caster sugar
 4 qts eggs
 1 tbsp lemon zest & 1/3 cup lemon juice
 2 tsp vanilla
 ⅔ cup milk
FROSTING
 225 g Unsalted butter
 400 g Icing sugar
 1 tsp Vanilla
 12 tbsp Cream
 1 tbsp Elderflower Cordial
SYRUP
 1/2 cup elderflower cordial, 2 tblsp lemon juice, 1/4 cup sugar

Directions

1

Grease and line 2 8 inch sandwich tins

2

Sponge: Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy

3

Add eggs one by one, add vanilla, lemon zest & juice & milk

4

Fold in flour & baking powder

5

Pour into tins and bake for 20 mins or until done on gas mark 180 degrees

6

For the syrup, combine ingredients and heat until sugar has dissolved

7

Prick cakes with fork and pour over syrup

8

For the frosting, beat frosting ingredients for 5mins until fluffy

9

Remove cakes from tins and layer some frosting on one cake, top with the other an frost the top as desired.
Enjoy!

Lemon & Elderflower Cake
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