Lavender Flow Icing Mini-Cakes
 
 
Ingredients
Cake
  • 3/4 cup low-fat milk
  • 2 bags lavender and chamomile tea
  • (or just lavender)
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp coarse salt
  • 4 tbsp (1/2 stick) unsalted butter,
  • room temperature
  • ¾ cup packed light brown sugar
  • 2 large eggs, room temperature
Frosting
  • 1/3 cup low-fat milk
  • 1/2 tsp dried lavender
  • 3 cups icing (confectioner’s powdered) sugar
  • Violet gel-paste coloring
Instructions
Cake
  1. Preheat oven to 350F.
  2. Line mini cupcake tins with paper or foil liners.
  3. Pour milk into a small saucepan. Heat just to a simmer over medium-low heat. Remove pan from the heat and pop in the two tea bags. Cover the pan and allow the milk to steep for 15 minutes. Remove and squeeze each teabag over the milk and discard.
  4. Cool the milk completely to room temperature.
  5. Whisk the flour, baking powder and salt in a large bowl.
  6. In a mixing bowl, fitted with a paddle, cream the butter and sugar together at medium-high speed until light and fluffy. Put the mixer on low and slowly add the flour mixture, alternating with the steeped milk, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
  7. Using two small spoons, dollop a small spoonful into each cupcake, filling only about half full. Bake for about 10 minutes or until the tops are just lightly browned and the cakes spring back when lightly touched.
Frosting
  1. Pour milk into a small saucepan. Add in the dried lavender and stir to mix. Place over medium-high heat just until the milk starts to boil. Turn off and remove from heat. Cover and allow the lavender milk to steep for about 10 minutes.
  2. Strain lavender milk through a fine sieve.
  3. Whisk in the icing sugar until smooth. Strain the sugar mixture again through a fine sieve.
  4. Stir in gel food coloring, scooping the coloring out in small bits using a toothpick. Repeat until desired color is achieved.
  5. Adapted from Martha Stewart
Recipe by Just a Smidgen at https://justasmidgen.com/2012/06/15/lavender-flow-icing-mini-cakes/