How to Decorate a Cake With Lavendar

Decorate a cake with lavender.

Lavender as a color evokes a feeling of elegance and beauty. Lavender has traditionally appealed to genteel ladies and is used to color cakes for elegant parties. The fragrance of lavender infuses into the frosting and make cakes beautiful to look at and delicious to eat. Lavender adds to the taste of the icing and adds appeal as a color. Newly picked lavender flowers give an additional freshness to the appearance of the cake. Does this Spark an idea?

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Red food coloring
Blue food coloring
Bowls
Teaspoons
Hot water
Dried lavender buds
Strainer
200 grams icing sugar
1cup butter
Spatula
Sponge or other cake
Fresh lavender flowers

Instructions

- 1
  
  Put equal amounts of red and blue food coloring into a bowl. Mix together till you get the right shade of lavender for your cake.
- 2
  
  Pour a cup of hot water into a bowl. Add the lavender buds and infuse for about 15 minutes. Strain into another bowl.
- 3
  
  Mix butter sugar and the lavender tea in a bowl to make a thick frosting. You can add or reduce ingredients until you get the right consistency. Add the lavender food coloring to the mixture and fold until evenly distributed.
- 4
  
  Spread the frosting mixture over the cake evenly; cover the cake completely.
- 5
  
  Press the fresh lavender flowers to the sides of the cake into the fresh frosting. Place some of the flowers on the top of the cake.