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Elderflower & Lemon Cake

Elderflower & Lemon Cake

⏱️ 40 min 👥 Serves 12 📅 22 February 2026
A fragrant, buttery elderflower and lemon cake, soaked with lemon juice and elderflower cordial while warm, then finished with a cream cheese frosting.

👩‍🍳 Method

  1. 1

    Preheat oven to 140°C. Grease and line your cake tin(s).

  2. 2

    Whisk the eggs, yoghurt and milk together and set aside.

  3. 3

    Beat the butter and golden caster sugar together until light and fluffy.

  4. 4

    Mix the self raising flour into the butter mixture alternating with the egg mixture until combined.

  5. 5

    Stir in the lemon zest and a drop of elderflower cordial.

  6. 6

    Bake for 40 minutes until a skewer comes out clean.

  7. 7

    While the cake is still warm, mix the lemon juice and 3 tbsp elderflower cordial together and spoon over the warm cake to soak in.

  8. 8

    Once cool, top with cream cheese frosting.