Lemon and Elderflower Cake with a not too sweet frosting recipe
 – nancybirtwhistle

Lemon and Elderflower Cake with a not too sweet frosting recipe – nancybirtwhistle

www.nancybirtwhistle.co.uk

If you like cake but the thought of sweet sickly buttercream puts your teeth on edge then this frosting is for you. Light, smooth and not overly sweet this litt

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Ingredients

  • 2 x 6 inch sandwich tins greased and base lined
  • 125g Soft margarine or butter
  • 125g Caster sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 125g Self Raising flour
  • Finely grated zest of half of the lemon and all of the juice
  • ½ tsp Sicilian lemon extract
  • 250ml whole milk
  • 3 tbsp cornflour
  • 180g Soft butter
  • 170g Icing sugar
  • 4 tbsp Elderflower cordial
  • Grated zest of half a lemon

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