Flower Garden Cake
From midgelet 15 years agoIngredients
- 2 cups cake flour, sifted shopping list
- 1-1/4 teaspoons baking powder shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon salt shopping list
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature shopping list
- 2 cups granulated sugar shopping list
- 2 large eggs, beaten shopping list
- 1 8-ounce container sour cream shopping list
- Grated zest and juice of 1 lemon shopping list
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract shopping list
- 1 cup mixed fresh edible flower blossoms and petals ( free of pesticdes etc. ) or candied or frosted fruit shopping list
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Grease a 9-inch springform pan and set aside.
- Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt in a small mixing bowl.
- With an electric mixer on low speed, cream the butter and sugar together in a large mixing bowl until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the eggs and sour cream, the beat in the dry ingredients, 1/2 cup at a time.
- Beat well after each addition.
- Beat in the lemon juice and zest.
- Add the vanilla extract and blend well.
- Pour the batter into the prepared springform pan and bake until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean (about 50 minutes to one hour).
- Let cake cool in the pan on a wire rack.
- Release and remove the sides of the pan.
- With a spatula or knife, separate the bottom of the cake from the bottom of the pan.
- Invert the cake onto a wire rack.
- Turn cake over again, so that it is right side up, onto a serving plate or cake stand lined with a paper doily.
- Toss the edible flowers and petals with the 1/2 cup sugar in a small bowl and sprinkle over the top of the cake.
- Omit sugar if you are using candied or frosted fruit to top the cake
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