Recipe Elderflower Lemon Cake

[NC Susan]

( Elderflower are elderberry flowers )

Elderflower Lemon Cake
makes 1 (9x5-inch) loaf

Cake
8 ounces unsalted butter, softened, plus more for greasing the pan
8 ounces superfine sugar
4 large eggs
Zest of 2 lemons (about 2 tablespoons)
8 ounces self-rising flour
1/4 cup elderflower cordial
Juice of 1/2 lemon (about 1 tablespoon)

Cream
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
2 tablespoons elderflower cordial

For the cake
Preheat oven to 325°F.

Lightly grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan and line with parchment paper. Set aside.

In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment (or in a large bowl with a handheld mixer or a spoon), cream the butter and sugar until very pale and fluffy. Mix in the lemon zest.

In a small bowl, beat the eggs together. Gradually add the eggs to the butter and sugar mixture (about 1 teaspoon at a time), beating well after each addition.

Sift a quarter of the flour into the bowl and gently fold with a spatula. Repeat until all the flour is incorporated.

Pour the batter into the pan. Bake in the oven until a tester comes out clean, about 50 minutes.

While the cake is baking, combine 1/4 cup elderflower cordial and lemon juice.

Place the cake (still in the pan) on a wire rack and prick all over with a skewer. Drizzle the elderflower and lemon syrup over the cake so that it seeps into the holes.

Cool cake completely, then remove from pan to serve.

For the cream
To make elderflower cream, combine heavy whipping cream and 2 tablespoons elderflower cordial in a mixing bowl and whip with an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, a handheld mixer, or a wire whisk.

Sponge cake adapted from Delia Smith's Victoria Sponge Cake.

www.thekitchn.com/recipe-elderflower-lemon-cake-145330

 

[NC Susan]

http://www.chatelaine.com/food/trends/what-is-elderflower/


A Trip To Ikea And $5 Is All You Need To Get In On The Food Trend Meghan Markle Loves
Meghan Markle has put elderflower on the map. Here’s how to use it in your kitchen.
by Amy Grief Updated
Mar 28, 2018

Floral flavours might be the biggest food trend of 2018 thanks to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. Last week, Kensington Palace announced the couple had ordered a lemon elderflower wedding cake from London-based pastry chef Claire Ptak for their May 19 wedding. But elderflower is more than just a royal cake flavour. I fell in love with it while mixing elderflower syrup into a G&T this winter. It added subtle flowery, yet fruity notes to my cocktail, which helped me momentarily escape from the dreariness of a grey December day. Best of all, unlike rose and lavender, elderflower’s a floral flavour that doesn’t taste like perfume.

royal wedding cake Here’s Why Meghan Markle Picked This Cool British Bakery For Her Wedding Cake
Whether you love (or think you hate) floral flavoured food, here’s how to bake and mix drinks with elderflower.

What Is Elderflower?
Small, white elderflowers grow on elderberry bushes, which are found throughout the U.K., northern Europe as well as in parts of North America, and bloom from late May to early June. Meghan and Harry are seriously capturing British spring in their wedding cake. While elderflowers are quite pretty, most recipes, including cocktails and baked goods, call for elderflower cordial or syrup.


Jamie Oliver has an easy elderflower syrup recipe, but if you don’t happen to have access to an elderberry bush, picking up store bought is fine — and super easy to find. Ikea store sells elderflower syrup for $5. There are plenty of other brands readily available in Canada, including Monin, a variety of options from the Toronto-based Cocktail Emporium (which delivers nationwide), and one made with Canadian elderflowers from Forbes.

Bottle of IKEA elderflower syrup.
Ikea’s elderflower syrup costs $5. Photo, Ikea.

How To Make Elderflower Cocktails
Elderflower works especially well with gin, thanks to the spirit’s botanical flavours. Splash some in a glass with gin and tonic warer. If you’re floral obsessed, try making your elderflower G&T with Dillon’s rose gin from Ontario’s Niagara region. Or, forgo the alcohol altogether and mix elderflower syrup with plain seltzer. Fever Tree and Bottlegreen make elderflower soda (available at grocery stores), which might be the easiest way to mix up your next spring-inspired bevy. Of course, there’s also St. Germain, which is a French elderflower liqueur. Try it in our simple sweet, yet spicy cocktail.

Cooking And Baking With Elderflower Syrup
Think of elderflower syrup as you would rosewater — a little goes a long way. In many cake and pastry recipes, elderflower is used to enhanced whipped cream or buttercream. Like liqueurs, elderflower cordial or syrup can also be poured over a cake to infuse it with flavour.

Try it in place of rosewater in our Chantilly cream recipe (it pairs well with crepes). Yotam Ottolenghi — the king of cooking with flowers — has plenty of sweet and savoury elderflower recipes to choose from and Jamie Oliver even has a elderflower, lemon and pistachio cake recipe, if you want a real taste of the royal wedding.




** Here's Why Meghan Markle Picked This Cool British Bakery For Her Wedding Cake
Kensington Palace announced on March 20 that pastry chef Claire Ptak will be making the wedding cake. Ptak owns Violet Cakes in London, but like Markle was raised in California.

 

[Melodi]

Elderflower syrup and drinks are a BIG thing in Sweden every Spring they pop up everywhere, cooking with flower essences have been popular in the UK (at least per my cookbooks) at least since the 19th century - mostly just rose and violet or lavender; elderflower anything is kind of new for the Brits though husband and I have used it when we remember to go out and pick the flowers.

Thank you for posting the recipe and the information! I am hoping we can keep this room going a bit more now that Winter is thawing back (slowly) and I find cooking comes more to mind (still cold enough for baking but not rushed with holiday stuff etc).

 

[Siskiyoumom]

While looking for elderberry liquor recipes at you tube today I cam across an elderberry flower lemon drizzle pound cake video by a British cook. Yummy!

I made the liquor now I wait six months to steep it, then strain out the berries and add some sugar, wait a week then decant it.

I did not get out to harvest the flowers so I will have to wait till next year to get some to make elderberry flower cordial.

I hope to harvest mre berries next week. I love the you rub3 video as I am learning more about what parts of assorted plants are safe and what are toxic.