Lavender Peaches & Cream Cake

Lavender Peaches & Cream Cake



Shopping List:

200 gr butter softened
200 gr self-raising flour
1 teaspoon baking powder ( backing)
200 gr light brown or golden caster sugar
4 eggs, free range
2 tablespoons of milk

For the topping:

3 ripe peaches or tinned 240 gr contains about 6 halves, drained
65 gr light brown sugar
1 teaspoon dried lavender ( not too much, otherwise it will smell of soap)

For the filling:

2 x 116 gr clotted cream or  200 gr whipped cream
2 tablespoons of golden caster sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract  or 1/2 sachet vanilla sugar


Preheat your oven to 180C. Grease or spray and line your sandwich tins.
Sift the flour, to make it fluffy, and baking powder into a large bowl and add all the other ingredients.
( The all-in-one method). Whisk everything together until smooth.
Before you divide the mixture between the two sandwich tins, peel, halve and stone the peaches, then cut each half peach into 4 slices. If you use tinned peaches make sure that after they are drained they are not so wet. Toss the peaches with the golden caster sugar and arrange them in a single layer into one of your prepared tins.
Tip half of your mixture on top of that and the other half of your mixture into the other prepared tin.

Bake for 20-25 minutes until golden. Be careful that the tin without the peaches bakes faster then the one with. So maybe you have to give that one 5-10 minutes more.
As you can see on the photograph i didn't really leave it in the oven long enough.

Leave to cool in the tins on your wire rack whilst making the filling. Then turn out and let it cool down properly.

Whisk the clotted or whipped cream with the sugar and vanilla until it has the right consistency.
Spread this over the bottom sponge, then carefully put the peaches one on top.


Sprinkle with a little Lavender and think of warm summers.

This is also an excellent dessert served with a little bit more cream and a cup of espresso.
Put a little sprig of Lavender next to the cake  on the dessert plate for decoration.



                                                           "Enjoy"