Lavender Chocolate Goose Egg Cake for Mother’s Day
This dark rich lavender chocolate goose egg cake is made with a single egg. You can, of course substitute the goose egg with chicken eggs, but it’s well worth trying to get hold of one if you can. The cake is filled and covered with an unctuous chocolate ganache which is also flavoured with lavender. Ideal as a Mother’s Day cake and probably best enjoyed by adults.
Mothering Sunday
If I’m around, I always endeavour to make a cake for my most amazing mother on Mothering Sunday. The question this year was, what cake to make?
Simnel cake is traditional for this Christian festival which falls on the fourth Sunday in Lent. It was a day’s reprieve from the Lenten fast and domestic servants were given the day off to visit their mother church. This meant they were able to spend time with their families and specifically their mothers.
These days Simnel cake is more closely associated with Easter, but the old tradition of baking a cake and picking flowers for our mothers lives on. However, my mother makes her own simnel cake every year, so I needed to think of something else.
Lavender Chocolate Goose Egg Cake
With spring in the air, a cake with a floral theme seemed appropriate. I happened to have some lavender chocolate in the house and remembered the success of my chocolate lavender cake. Although lavender isn’t exactly spring like, it is floral. So a lavender chocolate cake it was going to be.
Excitingly, it’s the season for goose eggs and I had bought one especially to make my Mother’s Day cake. Goose eggs have a very short season, so I pounce upon them with glee whenever I see them in the spring. They’re very large and have a whopping yolk, so are excellent for baking. They roughly equate to three large hens eggs.
I scattered the lavender chocolate goose egg cake with edible red dust, pink hearts and lavender flowers. Sadly most of the flowers all blew off in the wind when I took the cake outside to photograph it, but I reckon the hearts say it all anyway. I made it yesterday and I’m off to deliver it later this afternoon, along with a bunch of primroses and a card.
Update 31 March
The chocolate goose egg cake was sensational. I was really pleased with it and more to the point so was my mother. The lavender flavour was good without being overpowering and the cake was beautifully light.
Other Recipes for Goose Egg Cakes You Might Like
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- Nigella’s dense chocolate cake
- Passionfruit curd cake
- Simnel cake
- Willie’s cloud forest chocolate cake
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Choclette x
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Lavender Chocolate Goose Egg Cake – The Recipe
Lavender Chocolate Goose Egg Cake
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp lavender buds
- 125 ml hot water
- 150 g unsalted butter softened
- 175 g sugar (half golden caster, half dark muscovado)
- 1 pinch fine sea or rock salt
- 40 g cocoa powder
- 1 goose egg (or 3 large eggs)
- 175 g flour (half wholemeal, half white)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ¾ tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
- 85 g ground almonds
- 2 tbsp Greek yoghurt
Lavender Chocolate Ganache
- 80 g dark lavender chocolate (I used 70%)
- 70 g unsalted butter
- 2 tsp honey well flavoured (I used Cornish honey)
- 3 tbsp double cream (heavy cream)
Instructions
- Place the lavender in a covered pan with the water and bring to the boil. Leave to steep for an hour, then strain.1 tbsp lavender buds, 125 ml hot water
- Cream the butter, sugar and salt until light and fluffy.150 g unsalted butter, 175 g sugar, 1 pinch fine sea or rock salt
- Beat in the cocoa, followed by the egg.40 g cocoa powder, 1 goose egg
- Sift in the flour, baking powders and almonds and stir in alternately with the lavender water.175 g flour, 1 tsp baking powder, ¾ tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda), 85 g ground almonds
- Stir in the yogurt until just incorporated.2 tbsp Greek yoghurt
- Divide the mixture between two 8″ round silicone cake moulds and bake at 180℃ (350℉, Gas 4) for 25 minutes or until the cakes are well risen and firm to the touch. Leave to cool in the moulds for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Lavender Chocolate Ganache
- Place the chocolate, butter and honey in a pan over very low heat until just melted. Remove from the heat, then stir in the cold cream.80 g dark lavender chocolate, 70 g unsalted butter, 2 tsp honey, 3 tbsp double cream (heavy cream)
- Use half of the ganache to sandwich the two cakes together then spread the remainder over the top cake.
- Decorate with lavender buds.
That sounds absolutely gorgeous. I really look forward to goose egg season every year. They are really good for baking but I tend to eat most of them before they get that far.
Simply beautiful! 🙂 Next year I might have to hire you to make me a mother’s day cake! At least then *I* won’t have to make it & I could still get edible cake for Mother’s Day! Win!
Wow. Looks good. I’ve never tried goose eggs and never heard of lavender chocolate. #RecipeoftheWeek
That looks so good. I bet it tasted great too.
I know your mom was so pleased! What a beautiful cake!
Lush, lush, Lush cake. I would love to cook some more with lavender.
This looks, and sounds, so gorgeous. Lavender chocolate cake, mmmmmmm….
Oh this really inspires me! Your mum is lucky to have a daughter who bakes so many yummy chocolate treats! I am intrigued about lavender chocolate. I have never tried it.
Really well done!
This looks lovely! Definitely one for the recipe book! xxx
This is a very pretty cake, including the little hearts on top. I have never seen a goose egg before and now really want to. They must be huge. Hope you and your mum had a lovely day.
OH how pretty is that cake and with goose eggs too! Lovely and I bet your mum enjoyed it too!
I’m intrigued by your decision to use a goose egg! I’ve never cooked with them, but when I see them I always imagine a gigantic poached egg, rather than as something to use in baking 🙂 And lavender, mmmm, I love lavender in cakes. I did make simnel cake for my mother-in-law, but it sank a bit (new recipe!) so that one won’t be getting blogged until I figure out what went wrong.
Beautiful cake Choclette! I’ve never tried any bake with lavender, must be lush though 😉
I hope you and your mother enjoyed Mother’s Day. I was recently gifted some lavendar chocolate and it was sensational, clearly your cake is too. Wonderful idea xx
That’s beautiful Choclette, although I’m sure about the lavender bit 😉
Janie x
This sounds lovely and I like the sound fo the touch of lavender. Bet your mum was delighted
what a lovely present – cakes and flowers are the best, especially when infused with love and lavender 🙂
Such a pretty cake and lovely ingredients. I’ve only ever baked a cake with goose eggs once and I do remember how beautifully it turned out. Lovely sentiment on Mothers Day x
This looks and sounds beautiful, I love the colour x
I have lots of lavender growing in the summer months but never used it before to cook with. Now I will give it a go.
I love the idea of lavender with chocolate. I have some growing on the roof terrace so maybe I’ll try some lavender chocolate truffles
I have never baked with goose egg….the cake looks intriguing and beautiful!
Looks lovely, I like the combination of lavender and chocolate x
What a lovely cake, and I love how your heart decorations are standing up rather than all lying flat