anyone any good recipes where you can make

Deals_2

a cake with apricot and lavender for example. i tasted it once abroad and it was fab. do you just get normal lavender pot pourri and cook with that or do you have to get some kind of liquid? thanks in advance.

Nile

Hello Deals

The baking experts in the 'Old Style' board will probably have some tips for you.

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Nile

DIRTY_CASH

G.G NO!

Pot pourri has all the chemical crap in such as essences and preservatives etc. See if you can get hold of the real thing or even Lavendar essence.

Strangely enough I had an ice cream abroad which had almonds and lavender in it - lush! It even makes a good mousse...

Try searching on the BBC website cooks recipes as I beleive they done something rather fancy with lavendar for masterchef.

Bobbykins

Hiya - I use a Women's Institute recipe which is really yummy and SO simple. It's one of my daughter's favourite cakes. It's just a lavender cake though, not got apricots in it.

Basically it is just a standard basic sponge cake recipe with 2 teaspoons of dried lavender flowers added. I have lavender growing in my garden so I just dry my own.

I am sure you should be able to buy unadulterated lavender flowers fairly easy though. I'll have a look and come back to you if I can find a link

Bobbykins

Oh, just found this link......they sell the dried lavender flowers as well as lavender essence and they even have some recipes

http://www.hopshop.co.uk/

(I have no connection to them, I just Googled them)

good luck