Lavender Cream Cheese Pound Cake

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Recipe for Lavender Cream Cheese Pound Cake, adapted from Honey Bee Sweets.
(Makes 3 small and 3 mini loaves)

Ingredients:
330g Plain Flour
340g LIV unsalted butter, room temperature
250g Cream cheese, room temperature
6 Whole eggs
240g Castor Sugar
 tbsp Rum
1 tsp Salt
1½ tsp Dried Lavender

Method:
  1. Preheat fan oven to 160°C. With a k-beater, beat butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add sugar; beat until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.
  2. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Mix in rum and lavender.
  3. With mixer on low, add flour and salt in three additions, beating until just combined.
  4. Pour batter into the prepared pans. Even the top with a spatula.
  5. Bake until golden and a toothpick inserted in the centers comes out almost clean, approximately 40-43mins.
  6. Cool them in the pan completely before serving.
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I'm submitting this post to  Aspiring Bakers #38: Boozy-licious (December 2013) hosted by Jasline of Foodie Baker.

7 comments:

AL TAN said...
December 19, 2013 at 8:14 AM

Where did you get the dried lavender? Your lavender cream cheese pound cake look delicious.

Car Seats for Toddlers said...
December 19, 2013 at 2:06 PM

Very interesting blog. I would like to follow this blog. Could you please post more.

Baby Sumo said...
December 19, 2013 at 9:08 PM

This would be a really nice cake for Christmas. Love the scent lavender. :)

Jasline @ Foodie Baker said...
December 22, 2013 at 12:13 AM

This must be a very fragrant pound cake! Would love to try this out when I get my hands on some lavender. Thank you for joining me in Aspiring Bakers!

Passionate About Baking said...
December 23, 2013 at 9:05 PM

Hi AL Tan,
My sister bought it from France. You can also get it from Phoon Huat. They have dried lavenders.

Passionate About Baking said...
December 23, 2013 at 9:05 PM

Thanks Baby Sumo. Merry Christmas to you!

Passionate About Baking said...
December 23, 2013 at 9:06 PM

Hi Jasline,
Thanks for dropping by. You have to try this pound cake, it's really nice! Thanks for hosting AB Dec!

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