LAVENDER POUND CAKE

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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.

Provided by kolibri

Categories Dessert

Time 1h20m

Yield 1 cake

Number Of Ingredients 8

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

Steps:

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.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 3768.8, Fat 210.8, SaturatedFat 125.9, Cholesterol 1351.1, Sodium 733.4, Carbohydrate 422.5, Fiber 4.9, Sugar 202.4, Protein 53.6