Elderflower sponge | Recipe of the week
Putting food on plates and filling glasses with wine somehow brings back a little normality to our lives.
After a busy couple of weeks it’s good to recharge the batteries with a stroll in the Downs where I have noticed elderflowers are in full swing.
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Hide AdI wrote the recipe for elderflower cordial some time ago but if you don’t have a copy then I’m sure you can find it online.
This sponge cake recipe uses the elderflower cordial to give a lovely summery feel and I serve it with lemon curd, cream and meringues.
Ingredients
225g butter softened
125g caster sugar
100g icing sugar
3 eggs
50ml elderflower cordial
225g self raising flour
Zest 1 lemon
Method
1. Beat the butter and sugars together until creamy.
2. Add 1 egg and 1/3 of the flour and beat in. Repeat this until you have used all the eggs and flour.
3. Mix in the lemon zest and elderflower cordial.
4. Put the mix into a lined cake or bread tin and bake in a preheated oven 160c gas 4 for 25 to 30 minutes until cooked.Put a skewer in the middle of the cake which will come out clean if its cooked – if it doesn’t carry on cooking for another 5 minutes.
5. Allow to cool on a rack.
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