Lavender Recipes

Lavender in recipes will have you thinking about lavender in a whole new way. It’s the perfect addition to drinks and desserts that will have you planning your next sweet tooth treat.

English is the most popular culinary lavender, it’s easy to purchase edible lavender online if you’re not able to find it locally. Culinary lavender is sifted multiple times so that all that remains is the lavender buds.

Lavender Syrup is fun and easy to make, it’s great in coffee, tea, and lemonade and can be mixed into frosting to give it a delightful flavor.

Substitute lavender for the rosemary in my Rosemary Lemon Cookies and place some lavender buds or pieces on top of the icing.

Chocolate and Lavender cookies, lavender icing is a fun topping to wither vanilla sugar cookies or chocolate.

Lavender Scones, great with lemon added too.

Be sure to check out some of my favorite lavender recipes:

Lavender iced tea so delicious you’ll wonder how you drank ice tea without it
Lavender syrup is great in cocktails, add it in place of simple syrup or add a splash to your favorite drink for a fun addition.
Lavender lemonade is the best way to kick up your lemonade!
lavender ice cream/frozen yogurt a cool treat that is easy to whip together and enjoy

Top 3 favorite lavender items to buy

Lavender Extract
Edible Lavender Flowers
Lavender Syrup (or make homemade lavender syrup)

Other fun recipes to make with lavender:

lavender sugar

2 cups sugar
1 tablespoon dried culinary lavender buds

Instructions

Place 1 cup of the sugar and all of the lavender buds in a food processor and process until buds are mixed into sugar well. Add the remaining sugar and pulse once or twice to combine. Store in an airtight glass container.

Lavender Salt

2 1/2 teaspoons chopped lavender
1/2 cup fleur de sel or coarse salt

Instructions

Turn your lavender flowers or buds into a delicious salt blend, to use on chicken, fish, or potatoes. Mix the lavender and salt together, keep in an airtight glass jar.

Roast Provençal Chicken

Uses herbes de Provence, a blend of floral herbs including savory, marjoram, rosemary, thyme, and often lavender gives baked chicken a delightful flavor. Herbes de Provence is a great addition to potato recipes as well.

Instructions

Mix a tablespoon of oil, garlic paste, herbes de Provence, salt and pepper. Rub the mixture onto chicken or potatoes, and bake in the oven. Serve with wedges of fresh lemon.

Adding lavender buds to recipes

Lavender is a great addition to fruit recipes, scones, muffins, cookies, and cake. Add a 1/2 to 1 teaspoon lavender extract. Add 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon lavender dry buds, in the batter or on top of the batter before baking, or on top of a glaze icing.