Maiah adds almond extract for a delicious and unique complementary flavor to the lavender. I desired, you can emphasize the almond by garnishing the cake with almond slices.
Author: Maiah Miller
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Serves: 1 (2-layer) cake / 24 slices
Ingredients
2 cups sugar (can sub 1 ½ cups agave nectar)
3 tablespoons dried lavender, plus additional for garnish
For optimal lavender flavor, food-process the sugar with the lavender and let it sit for a while to absorb the flavor.
Preheat your oven to 350ºF and grease 2 (9-inch) round cake pans.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt.
In a large mixing bowl, beat the sugar (or agave) and lavender, milk beverage, oil, almond extract, and vanilla extract with a hand mixer until well combined.
Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and stir until combined.
Briskly fold in apple cider vinegar, stirring the batter no more than 7 times.
Pour the batter into your prepared cake pans.
Bake the cakes for 35 minutes or just until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
Let the cake cool for 10 minutes in the pans before carefully removing them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Once completely cool, you can frost the layers and garnish with dried lavender and almond slices (if using).