Link in laravel blade template

I'm struggling to create link in blade template in Laravel. I will pass the URL in template from environment variable.

The output suppose to be like.

<a href="https://google.com">Visit Google</a>

I am trying sth like this but with no luck.

<a href="{{env('APP_URL')}}">Visit my site</a>

Laravel Framework 5.5.19

Thank you