Lavender Pound Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

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

Recipe

• 1 shift together flour and baking powder, set aside.
• 2 in a large bowl cream butter, add lavender, sugar and lemon zest. continue beating until light in colour and texture.
• 3 add eggs, one at a time, beating througly after each one.
• 4 add half of the flour, mix, add milk.
• 5 fold in the remaining flour, transfer the mixture into a greased and lined 8x4x2 1/2 pan.
• 6 bake at 325 f for 1 hour, cool on wire rack.