Stress Baking: St Germain Liqueur Elderflower Cakes

Recently, I've been really busy with University work, no matter how much I do there's always more to do. As well as University, I always have more to do for my Brownie pack, ah the life of a Brown Owl. It was Thinking Day last week (22nd February) which reminds us to think of others in need and gives us chance to celebrate how awesome guiding is. To celebrate, we attended a Church service and on Saturday we'll be going to a division activity day - I'll get to do some crafts that I haven't organised! 

But no matter how busy I am, I always need to bake. Call it what you like... my favourite name for it is Stress Baking. Or maybe Procrastibaking!

Anyone who knows me can tell you that there're a few things that I can't pass up when they're on a menu: Elderflower, Amaretto,  Crème Brulée, and Lemon Curd.  I'm a wee bit obsessed with each of them. For some reason I've not actually tried to make crème brulée, maybe it should be left until  after my exams, when I have a bit more time. However, I caved to the craving of elderflower and cake and decided to have a try at making some.

I used this recipe from My Button Cake for inspiration but swapped the milk for St Germain Elderflower Liqueur, because you can very have enough Elderflower!  My cream cheese icing went wrong as normal - I can never get it to be thick enough to pipe, it's really sad as it's my favourite icing! But everything tasted lovely and the cake was the fluffiest and lightest I've ever made!

Recipe:

Cake:

4oz Self Raising Flour
2 tsps Elderflower Cordial
4oz Butter

4oz Sugar
2 Eggs
10ml Milk

10ml St. Germain Elderflower liqueur

1. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy
2. Beat in the eggs, cordial, milk and liqueur
3. Fold in the flour
4. Divide the mixture between cake case and cook in a preheated oven at 180C or gas mark 4 for around 15 minutes (until a skewer prodded into the cakes comes out clean)
5. Allow to cool then ice

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