Best 6 Lavender Buttermilk Pound Cake Recipes

LAVENDER POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Lightly grease 2 loaf pans or 1 Bundt cake pan.
• Mix flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.
• Beat sugar, butter, eggs, and vanilla in large bowl on high speed.
• Using electric mixer, beat on high for 5 minutes.
• Add dry ingredients alternately with milk. Mixing completely between additions.
• Stir in lavender.
• Pour mixture into greased pans.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 minutes or until inserted toothpick comes out clean.

LAVENDER BUTTERMILK POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 325°F. Grease a 9x5" loaf pan and dust lightly with flour.
• 2. With an electric mixer, cream the butter well. Then cream in the sugar until fluffy and well blended. Beat eggs in one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla.
• 3. Sift together the cake flour, buttermilk powder, cream of tartar, and salt. Add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture a little at a time, alternating with the buttermilk, mixing slowly until thoroughly blended. Fold in lavender blossoms.
• 4. Spread batter in prepared pan, and bake about 55-60 minutes, until tester or toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• 5. Cool cake 10 minutes in pan, then remove and finish cooling on wire rack.

BUTTERMILK POUND CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine flour and baking soda; add alternately with buttermilk and beat well. , Pour into a greased and floured 10-in. fluted tube pan. Bake at 325° until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 70 minutes. Cool in pan for 15 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. Dust with confectioners' sugar if desired.

LAVENDER POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F Grease and flour two 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 2 5/8 - inch loaf pans.
• Mix flour, baking soda and salt in medium-size bowl. Pulse 1/2 cup sugar with the lavender in a food processor until lavender is ground.
• In large bowl, beat butter, lavender-flavoured sugar, remaining 1 1/2 cups sugar and vanilla until fluffy, 3 minutes. Beat in eggs, one at the time. In a small bowl combine sour cream and milk. On a low speed, alternately, beat in flour mixture with sour cream mixture, beginning and ending with the flour. Divide between pans.
• Bake at 350 F for 55 minutes or until tester comes out clean. Cool on rack 10 minutes. Remouve cakes from pans and let cool completely.
• DRIZZLE:.
• Microwave water and lavender for 30 seconds on HIGH power. Let stip for 5 minutes. Strain out lavender flowers and discard.
• Once cake is cool, whisk lavender water and the confectioner sugar. Drizzle over both loaves. Slice and serve.

LAVENDER CAKE RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• In a small bowl add the milk and dried lavender and let it sit for about 15 minutes. You can also do this the day before and let it infuse in the refrigerator.
• In a sieve sift flour, baking powder, and salt into a mixing bowl and set aside.
• In a mixing bowl with the paddle attachment, beat butter and sugar on medium speed until light and fluffy.
• In a large measuring cup, strain the infused milk and add the egg whites and extracts.
• Turn the mixer to low speed and alternate the dry and wet ingredients. Use a spatula to scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl.
• Pour the batter into a 9x9x3 square pan OR two 8×8 round pans to make a layered cake.
• Bake the cake for 30 minutes. This may change depending on the pan you're using. Set the time for 25 minutes and then add more time if needed. Our square 9x9x3 cake took 30 minutes to bake.
• Once the cake is done baking and has cooled, turn it upside down and then using a wooden toothpick make 12 little holes in the cake by poking it.
• Using a pastry brush, brush the lavender syrup over the cake. You won't use all of the syrup, but at least 1/2 of it.
• Add water, sugar, and dried lavender into a small saucepan.
• Simmer on low heat for about 5 minutes until the sugar dissolves.
• Remove from the heat and let it cool to room temperature.
• Strain the dried lavender through a sieve and into a bowl.
• Add all of the ingredients into the bowl of an electric mixer and beat on high until it's nice and fluffy.
• When the cake is cooled, add a layer of whipped frosting over the top and spread evenly.
• Decorate the cake with edible flowers.

BUTTERMILK POUND CAKE II

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease one 9 or 10 inch tube pan. Mix together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, beat butter with sugar. Mix in the eggs, one at time, beating well after each addition. Stir in the lemon and the vanilla extracts. Gently mix in flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake in preheated oven for 90 minutes. Do not open oven door until after one hour. When cake begins to pull away from the side of the pan it is done. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.