Lavender Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cups cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 teaspoons dried lavender blossoms
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon lemon zest
4 eggs
1/2 cup milk

Preparation

Shift together flour and baking powder, set aside.
In a large bowl cream butter, add lavender, sugar and lemon zest. Continue beating until light in colour and texture.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating througly after each one.
Add half of the flour, mix, add milk.
Fold in the remaining flour, transfer the mixture into a greased and lined 8x4x2 1/2 pan.
Bake at 325 F for 1 hour, cool on wire rack.