Apple soup with lavender

Ingredients:
- 6 red apples
- 300 ml single cream
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla flavour
- 500 ml apple juice
- 2 tablespoons of honey
- a dash of ground cinnamon
- 5 blades of dried lavender
- 30 gramms butter
- few drops of lemon juice

How to prepare:
Wash the apples, peel them, cut them in half and get rid of the cores and cut the fruit to small pieces. Put the pot onto the heat, add the 30 gramms of butter and the 2 tablespoons of honey and melt them. If they are molten keep a fistful of apples and add the rest of the fruit to the pot and stir them on the heat for 3-5 minutes. Meanwhile cover the apples that you've put away and drop some lemon juice to prevent them from getting brown. 
After 3-5 minutes pour the apple juice and the cream into the pot and also add 3 blades of lavender. Cover it and cook on low heat for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes get the lavenders off and make the soup creamy with a hand blender. Pour it through a colander  to make sure the soup is really creamy. Flavour it with the cinnamon and the vanilla, put it back to the heat and add the rest of the apples and cook for about another 5 minutes.
When it is served decorate it with the other two blades of lavender. Serve it either hot or cold.

Tip:
You can use 3 red and 3 green apples instead of 6 red ones as green apples have a bit of sour flavour which could make your soup better.


Difficulty: easy
Time: 40 minutes
Portion: 4 plates
Washing-up: little