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I have named this a Garden harvest cake, as it is full of seasonal ingredients that are available to forage for in the hedgerows or your gardens right now!.

Apple, blackberries and elderberries with a toasted fig leaf caramel flavoured mascarpone frosting. Adorned with caramelised apple slices, elderberries, and of course a bit or dried foliage for extra wow factor. Fig leaf caramel is my new favourite thing as it has a beautifully nutty flavour that reminds me of toasted coconut, the smell it lets off as you gently toast the leaves fills the air with the most beautiful scent. Fig leaves I picked the fig leaves from my mums garden, they are a wonderful thing to cook with as they have so much flavour to infuse. The small leaves on a plant that is full of fruit will give the most flavour, so they are perfect at this...

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