Lavender Pound Cake
photo by Rita1652
- Ready In:
- 1hr 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
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1 cake
ingredients
- 2 cups cake flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons dried lavender blossoms
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest
- 4 eggs
- 1⁄2 cup milk
directions
- Shift together flour and baking powder, set aside.
- In a large bowl cream butter, add lavender, sugar and lemon zest. Continue beating until light in colour and texture.
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating througly after each one.
- Add half of the flour, mix, add milk.
- Fold in the remaining flour, transfer the mixture into a greased and lined 8x4x2 1/2 pan.
- Bake at 325 F for 1 hour, cool on wire rack.
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Reviews
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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.
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