Pretty Elderflower Cupcake Recipe

July 08, 2020 2 Comments

A delicious alternative Elderflower recipe  

The Elderflowers come and go far to quickly and as the last lacy blooms start to fade a few of the fragrant floral bouquets can still be gathered  to make these pretty little cakes... 

There is a few folktales regarding these special shrub one being the flowers are to be picked at their most fragrant on the height of a Summer day.

As we well know with our British Summers that doesn’t happen quite as often as it should, so if you can grab them while you can, they still smell just as fragrant in the rain and this is the best Elderflower Cupcake recipe and is a different take on the usual cordial recipes you come across.

A beautiful wild cake recipe that captures Summer and is perfect to celebrate a gathering like a Wedding or Garden Event. 

Simple and Minimal

With lemon icing this recipe is easy, that it  makes a great rainy day project to do to when we have those Summer showers that sometimes do not know when to stop.

Naturally Gathered

Flowers from three heads of Elderflowers and the zest of a Lemon are added to this basic cake recipe, which is then baked and cooled to be covered in snow white icing flavoured with the juice of Lemon and splash Elderflower Cordial (optional)

Finish by sprinkling with a confetti of creamy white Elderflowers.

 

A Place To Gather

for an afternoon tea, wedding, a summer gathering of friends and family or taken on a picnic

Or if like me eaten sat in garden with a cup of tea

Little realising in that moment from a batch of twelve I would only be left with three

 

 

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