Vegan lemon and camomile drizzle cake

My friends Ellie and Ruadhan are getting married in June on the tiny island of Sark, and I’m honoured that they’ve asked me to make their wedding cake!  Ellie is vegan so I wanted to make sure that at least one tier is a vegan cake.  I tested this recipe when I went for a picnic and walk in the Forest of Dean with Ellie and Ru this weekend.  You’d never know it was vegan!  But it definitely needs the drizzle – without it I think it might be a little too dry.

Camomile and lemon cupcakes

This is my second attempt using tea for cakes, this time with camomile.  I infused milk with camomile tea bags for a couple of hours before I started (and added the contents of one bag to the cake mix) - and it worked really well.  It's a gentle flavour, but has a lovely gingery, honeyish taste, and it works beautifully with the lemony, camomile icing.  These were SO moreish!