Flowers to plant for Spring & tea with lemon cake

We made a trip to Bunnings today for some lovely Spring flowers

I so love pansies and daffodils

A lovely much awaited parcel arrived today also.

I ordered two climbing roses from Treloars in Melbourne

I couldn't get the ones I wanted here in Adelaide

I have to soak them in water for 24 hours before planting

I read on Pinterest that banana skins are so good for planting 

under the roses. They are supposed to love them,so I've been saving

them up in the freezer. 

Afternoon tea time

Strawberries with a sprinkle of icing sugar(confectioners sugar)

and Lemon almond cake with a refreshing cup of Dilmar tea

Recipe for Lemon Almond cake

Ingredients

185gms(6oz)butter softened

1/2cup caster sugar(ordinary white sugar but finer)

1/2cup curd(butter) or I used juice of 1 lemon instead

as I didn't have lemon curd on hand and it worked perfectly well

3 eggs beaten

11/4 cups Self Raising flour sifted

30grms(1oz) ground almonds

1/2 cup milk

3 tblspns flaked almonds for decoration

(can be toasted)

I just iced the cake with a simple icing 

made with icing sugar and a little water

but the recipe says to use the one below

Lemon Frosting

125 grms(4 oz cream cheese

1 T finely grated lemon rind

11/2 cups icing sugar(confectioners sugar)

2  Tspns lemon juice

Method

Place butter,sugar,lemon butter(curd) or lemon juice of 1 lemon

eggs,flour,ground almonds and milk in a large bowl and mix well

Spoon batter into a greased and lined 20cm(8 inch round cake pan

and bake 40mins or until cooked when tested with a skewer that comes out clean

Stand in the tin for 5 mins before turning out onto a cake rack to cool

To make frosting place cream cheese,lemon rind,icing sugar and lemon juice in

a food processor and process for 1 min or until frostiing is of and easy spreading 

consistency 

Spread over cake and decorate with almonds

Enjoy

Hope you are enjoying your week,I certainly am. It's nice to get out into the garden again

I am joining my usual Linky parties and having a peek at some new ones

Please join me

The links to the parties are on my side bar

xx jeanetteann