If you are planning a celebration for Mom or a mother you love this Sunday, I got you covered for Dessert. Some feed an army, some a small or large family. Some take some time to create (you may want to start the day before) and s others come together within an hour and a half.
From Bee Sting cake to bundt cakes, pretty ganache-covered brownies or cheesecake, there is plenty of sweet inspiration below. With flavors that range from strawberry to lemon, lavender minneola, rhubarb, sweet milk, and grapefruit, it’s not too late to impress your guests with great flavor and style.
#1 Buttermilk Butter Cake with Lavender Lemon Streusel
Like most streusel cakes, this one essentially has two steps, making the cake and making the streusel. There are two other steps to be aware of:
1) Because the cake is yeasted, you will have to let the cake batter rise for 45 minutes.
2) Halfway through the baking, the cake is removed from the oven, more buttermilk is poured over the top, then the cake is returned for its final turn in the oven.
This recipe serves 24. The lavender lemon special flavor makes it a perfect fit, not only for Mother’s Day but for a brunch or daytime party any time of the year.
Recipe found HERE.
#2 Strawberry Gugelhupf
Recipe found HERE.
#3 Rhubarb Lavender Cake
Recipe found HERE.
#4 Sweet Milk Cake with Blue Flowers
This cake is drenched, I mean seriously soused. Drunk off its butt in a milk mixture.
The mix contains Hibiscus, Elderflower, Cornflower, Lavender and Orange Petals, Thyme Petals and Leaves, Violet, Erica and Yarrow Petals, Saffron threads. All of the ingredients are certified organically grown.
The cake is super sweet and sticky. What I like about using this flowers mix for the glaze is the savory elements provide some balance to all the milky sweetness.
If dried blue flowers are too hard to find, you can easily substitute dried lavender. Just make sure to halve the amount.
#5 Minneola Cheesecake with Amaretti Crust
A Minneola is a tangelo, a cross between a tangerine and a grapefruit. Filled with sweet, tart juice, the variety I used for this cake are nicknamed “Honey Bell” because of their shape. I paired this lovely flavor with an amaretto flavored crust.
This cheesecake has five separate elements to make so it’s not for baking sissies or those with time constraints. The fifth element was added by me. I candied the Minneola rinds to use as edible decorative scatter across the top of the finished cheesecake. That step is optional. I wanted to squeeze (ha!) everything I could out of those citrus lovelies before dumping the remains in the trash.
The crust is where I used my one shortcut in this whole process. It was created with store-bought Amaretti cookies.
Recipe found HERE.
#6 Pink Grapefruit White Chocolate Cake
Recipe found HERE:
#7 Lavender Bee Sting Cake
One of the most beloved traditional cakes in Germany is called bee sting cake or Bienenstich in German.
The top layer has honey encrusted almond leaves. Baked as one layer as a sheet cake, it is then cut in half and traditionally stuffed with vanilla cream.
My flavor twist of substituting lavender pastry cream reinvents this classic in a big way. The combination of the crunchy honey, nutty top with the smooth flowery pastry cream is heavenly.
This recipe yields a significant amount so I recommend making it for a party or, alternatively, be sure you have lots of friends and family around to share it with.
#8 Dark Chocolate Ganache Folk Heart Brownies with Sugar Candy Roses
Dark chocolate brownies are covered with dark chocolate ganache. I cut out hearts but slice them up in whatever shape you like.
If you don’t want the decorating fuss, simply sprinkle sparkle sugar, Quinns or sprinkles over the top of the brownies.
