Lemon Lavender Ombre Cake
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Lemon Lavender Ombre Cake
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Lemon Lavender Ombre Cake is festive & flavorful with a lemon brightness that balances the floral lavender. Perfect for dessert, brunch or tea!
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Ingredients
- 4 tablespoons milk
- 4 egg room temperature 120 grams, large, whites
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 cup all-purpose flour
- 4 Tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 Tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 12 Tablespoons butter room temperature
- 3/4 cup milk
- ½ teaspoon lemon lavender and vanilla paste or extract, each
- food color purple and yellow
Instructions
- In a small bowl, combine ¼ c milk, egg white; whisk briefly to blend.
- In a mixer bowl, combine the flour, sugar, cornstarch, baking powder, and salt. Mix briefly on low speed to combine, about 30 seconds.
- Add in the butter and mix on low speed until the mixture resembles wet sand, about 30 seconds.
- Mix in the remaining 3/4 cup milk, then increase the speed to medium and beat for about 2 minutes more.
- With the mixture on low speed, add the egg white mixture in three additions, mixing for about 20 seconds after each addition. Scrape down the bowl as needed.
- Divide evenly between 3 bowls. Add ½ teaspoon lavender paste and a small drop of purple color to the first. Add ½ teaspoon lemon paste and a small drop of yellow color to the second. Add ½ teaspoon vanilla paste or extract to this third.
- Spray three 8 x 8 or 9 x 9 metal pans with non-stick spray. Pour each color of cake batter into its own pan. Bake at 325F for 10-15 minutes until toothpick comes out clean. If you don’t have enough pans, you can bake in succession.
- Cool the cakes, remove from pan and further chill in the refrigerator (which makes getting clean cuts easier)
- On a flat surface, using a round cutter in size of your choice (I used 2 ½ inch cutter), cut cake rounds in all three colors.
- Fill a piping bag fitted with a round tip with a stiff frosting like Swiss Meringue Buttercream. Pipe small circles on the top of the lavender layer in the following pattern. Place one in the middle and a series of others in a circle around that. Top with a yellow layer and pipe similar circles on top of that. Top with the white layer, then add a large dot of frosting and colored sprinkles to that.
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