Lavender cupcakes

I'm sorry I haven't posted in such a while; I've spent a week working on the Isle of Man! Such a beautiful island. The recipe for these beauties are once again from the hummingbird bakery. However, I imagined that lavender cupcakes and lavender icing might be a bit much so I just made simple vanilla cupcakes with lavender icing. It's such a subtle flavour but so natural it's great!

You'll need to dry out some lavender for at least a couple of days before you want to use it, so pick some from your back yard, (or ask a friend who has some to cut some for you!)

The vanilla cupcake recipe can be found here http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/475442/The-Hummingbird-Bakery-vanilla-cupcakes

Or you can use your own!

The lavender icing is as follows:

Leave 1 tbsp of dried lavender flowers in 2tbsp whole milk for a few hours in the fridge. Beat 250g of icing sugar and 80g of butter until well mixed. Use purple food colouring (sadly I lacked it) and fresh lavender to decorate!

Yay summer snack!

Enjoy,

Let me know how they work out.

Marina