Lavender Pound Cake

kolibri's Note:

This cake is a traditional twist to a traditional English pound cake! Lavender is one of my favourite scents - and it works as a flavour too. This recipe is from Beauty Mark.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 20 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Yield: 1 cake

• 2 cups cake flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 cup unsalted butter , softened
• 1 ½ teaspoons dried lavender blossoms
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon lemon zest
• 4 eggs
• ½ cup milk

Directions:

1. Shift together flour and baking powder, set aside.
2. In a large bowl cream butter, add lavender, sugar and lemon zest. Continue beating until light in colour and texture.
3. Add eggs, one at a time, beating througly after each one.
4. Add half of the flour, mix, add milk.
5. Fold in the remaining flour, transfer the mixture into a greased and lined 8x4x2 1/2 pan.
6. Bake at 325 F for 1 hour, cool on wire rack.

Reviews

[Shannon W.]

This cake is nice, but I would venture that the finished product is more like a traditional British sponge cake, rather than a dense American pound cake. Unfortunately, I was expecting the latter but I was not disappointed. If you like lavender, this cake is worth making. I also had to cook mine an extra 20 minutes because mine was not done in the center after 1 hour baking time.

[Rita~]

We had seconds of this pound cake that we served with Orange Butter Orange Butter. The only change I had was to bake it 20 more minutes then called for!