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Coffee table with elderflower cake

Elderflower Lemon Cake

A fresh and floral summer cake, perfect for summer coffee tables.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Course: Cake
Cuisine: German
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

For the cake
  • 250 g butter
  • 120 g sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 100 ml elderflower syrup
  • 1 lemon zests and juice
  • 150 g yoghurt
  • 300 g all-purpose flour
  • 1 sachet baking powder
  • 1 pinch salt
For the icing
  • 100 g icing sugar
  • 3 tbsp elderflower syrup
  • fresh or dried elderflowers optional

Method
 

  1. Preheat the oven to 175 °C (347 °F). Grease a rectangular baking tin with butter, lard or tallow.
  2. Whisk butter and sugar together in a kitchen machine until it's white and fluffy.
  3. Add the eggs, one after the other, and mix them thoroughly in.
  4. Add the lemon peel, lemon juice, elderflower syrup and yoghurt to the batter and incorporate them well.
  5. Add the flour, baking powder and salt to the batter and mix until everything's well combined.
  6. Pour the batter into the prepared tin and bake it in the oven for 50 - 60 minutes.
  7. Once the cake is done, remove the tin from the oven, remove it from the tin and let it cool down.
  8. Mix the icing sugar with the elderflower syrup to make a slightly runny icing. If necessary, add more syrup.
  9. Glaze the cake with the icing and sprinkle some fresh or dried elderflowers as a garnish.

Notes

Serve it for a relaxed coffee gathering, a garden party, or simply as a treat on a warm summer afternoon.