Did your invitation to the wedding of Great Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan Markle get lost in the mail? Oh what a coincidence, mine too! Recently, I've looked for a tasty lemon cake recipe and as luck would have it, the Mountbatten-Winsors are serving a fancy lemon cake after the ceremony. For all my readers not attending the nuptials, nor the after parties, I've got your back. Have a slice of the royal wedding cake. Here is a recipe. (Theirs requries 500 eggs and 200 lemons!):
👑Ingredients for the cake
1 cup of sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
3/4 cup buttermilk (You can substitute milk if you wish.)
3 extra large eggs (Large works too.)
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
Juice of 2 lemons (1/4 cup), plus the lemon zest
2 tablespoons elderflower cordial (Ederflower liqueur can be substituted.)
👑Ingredients for the elderflower syrup
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup elderflower cordial
👑Ingredients for frosting
1-2 cups lemon curd (For homemade here.)
1 tablespoon elderflower cordial
🏰Directions for the cake:
1) With an electric mixer cream together the sugar and butter.
2) Add the buttermilk, than the eggs, one at a time.
3) Next mix in the dry ingredients: flour, baking power, baking soda and salt.
5) Now toss in the flavors: lemon juice, lemon zest and elderflower cordial (or liqueur).
6) Pour into 2 buttered 9 inch cake pans and bake in a preheated 350 degree F oven for about 30 minutes (until the center is done). Remove from the oven and let cool.
Meanwhile make the simple syrup flavored with elderflower --
🏰Directions for the Elderflower syrup:
1) Combine sugar and water in a saucepan on a stove top. Bring the mixture to a boil. Simmer until the sugar dissolves.
2) Turn off the heat and add the elderflower cordial. Let cool.
Prepare the frosting:
🏰Directions for the Lemon Ederflower Frosting:
💂Option A) To a jar of lemon curd (or use homemade) add a tablespoon (eyeball a squirt) of elderflower cardial.
💒Option B) The royal cake is reported to have a butter cream frosting: Toss room temperature butter, confectionery sugar and drops of milk in a bowl. Mix in lemon zest and elderflower cordial.
How to finish and frost the cake:
1) Next refrigerate the cake layers for a few hours.
2) Remove the 2 layers of cake from the refrigerator and make 4 layers by slicing through the centers in half, if you wish. If too difficult, no worries, a 2 layer cake will be fine too.
3) Brush the tops of the 4 cake layers (or 2) with elderflower flavored simple syrup, then top with the lemon curd (or butter cream) frosting. The cake has a messy (in a good way) look: Let frosting run down the sides and double or triple frost, if you like.
4) Decorate the top with cake icing flowers. You can improvise by putting the frosting in a plastic sandwich bag, then cut a corner off of one end, so the frosting can be squeezed out to make flowers. Or buy ready-made sugar flowers at the grocery store, it's in the cake aisle. You can get creative with berries; or sprinkles as flowers; or real ediable flowers; or just lemon slices cut as hearts and flowers.
Enyoy with a cup of tea!
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| Photo: Huffington Post of elderflower blossoms |
1 cup of sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
3/4 cup buttermilk (You can substitute milk if you wish.)
3 extra large eggs (Large works too.)
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
Juice of 2 lemons (1/4 cup), plus the lemon zest
2 tablespoons elderflower cordial (Ederflower liqueur can be substituted.)
👑Ingredients for the elderflower syrup
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup water1/4 cup elderflower cordial
👑Ingredients for frosting
1-2 cups lemon curd (For homemade here.)
1 tablespoon elderflower cordial
🏰Directions for the cake:
1) With an electric mixer cream together the sugar and butter.
2) Add the buttermilk, than the eggs, one at a time.
3) Next mix in the dry ingredients: flour, baking power, baking soda and salt.
5) Now toss in the flavors: lemon juice, lemon zest and elderflower cordial (or liqueur).
6) Pour into 2 buttered 9 inch cake pans and bake in a preheated 350 degree F oven for about 30 minutes (until the center is done). Remove from the oven and let cool.
Meanwhile make the simple syrup flavored with elderflower --
🏰Directions for the Elderflower syrup:
1) Combine sugar and water in a saucepan on a stove top. Bring the mixture to a boil. Simmer until the sugar dissolves.
2) Turn off the heat and add the elderflower cordial. Let cool.
Prepare the frosting:
🏰Directions for the Lemon Ederflower Frosting:
💂Option A) To a jar of lemon curd (or use homemade) add a tablespoon (eyeball a squirt) of elderflower cardial.
💒Option B) The royal cake is reported to have a butter cream frosting: Toss room temperature butter, confectionery sugar and drops of milk in a bowl. Mix in lemon zest and elderflower cordial.
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| Photo: Huffington Post of elderflower berries |
1) Next refrigerate the cake layers for a few hours.
2) Remove the 2 layers of cake from the refrigerator and make 4 layers by slicing through the centers in half, if you wish. If too difficult, no worries, a 2 layer cake will be fine too.
3) Brush the tops of the 4 cake layers (or 2) with elderflower flavored simple syrup, then top with the lemon curd (or butter cream) frosting. The cake has a messy (in a good way) look: Let frosting run down the sides and double or triple frost, if you like.
4) Decorate the top with cake icing flowers. You can improvise by putting the frosting in a plastic sandwich bag, then cut a corner off of one end, so the frosting can be squeezed out to make flowers. Or buy ready-made sugar flowers at the grocery store, it's in the cake aisle. You can get creative with berries; or sprinkles as flowers; or real ediable flowers; or just lemon slices cut as hearts and flowers.
Enyoy with a cup of tea!
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What a beautiful recipe for the Elderflower cake Debbie. In answer to your question on FB, my recipe was found in a local newspaper. However, it is almost identical to this one. Mine had Greek yoghurt instead of buttermilk in the batter, and baked in two tins and split the same way. The syrup exactly the same brushed on cakes. Frosting a bit different, no lemon curd (but that's a great idea!). It is mascapone cream cheese, double cream, confectionary sugar and elderflower cordial. For the two of us, I halved the whole recipe and made a smaller cake, and the frosting cream, sugar and elderflower. We loved it! Nice pictures of elderflower flowers and berries. What a fun event it was.
ReplyDeleteOh your cake looked delicious on Facebook, Trish! Glad to know our recipes are fairly authetic. I started off looking at what baker Claire Ptak said she put in her cake(s), but she didn't list how much of each ingredient, nor break it down for a single cake. But sounds like we got it right! Fun to try new things ... as well as watch a $45 million dollar dollar wedding in beautiful St. George's Chapel. Here's to years of happiness!
DeleteSometimes I do wrestle with the ideal of the cost of one (very lovely!) celebration verses the needs of the rest of the world to be honest, but there's a time and a place to discuss such things. I love how Kate (Duchess Catherine) recyles her hats and outfits and looks amazing every time.