Summer Almond Cake with Lavender Icing

Summer Almond Cake With Lavender Icing. How yummy!? Hello friends, so how are you today? Are you also looking for a nice recipe, for afternoon tea?

Summer Almond Cake with Lavender Icing: By Alan Palmer.

Step up your afternoon tea with the exquisite flavours of summer in this Almond Cake with Lavender Icing recipe.

So Alan says: ‘This recipe sums up summer – fresh, light and bursting with colour and flavour’.

Summer Almond Cake With Lavender Icing:

Serves 10

320 calories / 19.8g fat per portion

Delight in the delicate crumb of almond-infused cake, perfectly capturing the essence of the season.

Crowned with a fragrant lavender icing, each slice is a harmonious blend of floral and nutty notes. Bring a touch of elegance to your tea table and savour a slice of summer’s beauty with every bite.

Ingredients:

For The Cake:

• 110g (4oz) Kerrygold butter, softened
• 110g (4oz) golden caster sugar
• 3 free range eggs
• 75g (3oz) self raising flour
• 1tsp baking powder
• 45g (1½ oz) ground almonds
• 110g (4oz) blueberries
• 110g (4oz) raspberries

For The Icing:

• 75g (3oz) Kerrygold butter, cubed and softened
• 150g (5oz) icing sugar
• 1 tbsp single cream
• 1 tsp fresh lavender
• lavender sprigs, to decorate

Summer Almond Cake with Lavender Icing:

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan oven 160°C/Gas Mark 4. Line a 20cm (8 inch) round cake tin with baking paper.
2. Beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Gradually add the eggs, beating well between each addition.
3. Sift together the flour and baking powder, then fold into the mixture with the ground almonds.
4. Gently fold in the blueberries and raspberries.
5. Spoon into the prepared tin, level the surface and bake for 40-45 minutes. 
6. Cool for 20 minutes, then remove from the tin and place on a wire rack to cool completely.
7. When cool, prepare the icing.
8. Beat the butter and icing sugar together until combined, then whisk vigorously until pale and fluffy.
9. Add the cream and half the lavender.
10. Spread over the surface of the cake and decorate with the remaining lavender.

Cook’s Tip:

• Check online for suppliers of culinary lavender.
• If you can’t find any, try using a little finely grated lemon or orange zest in the icing instead. So good.

Summer Almond Cake With Lavender Icing. About this post – Recipe and photo credit by Alan Palmer’s recipe has been taken from the Kerrygold Community Recip-e-book, available for free download now! Visit Kerrygold UK for more delicious recipes and to download your free copy. So what do you think? Do you also fancy making one?

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