After our visit to the lavender farm earlier this week I found myself with a few bunches of lavender that I had bought with the vague idea of making lavender lemonade and lavender shortbread as I saw both of those on the menu in the tea shop at the farm.
I’ll be attempting the lavender lemonade tomorrow I think but today I’ve been making the lavender sugar in preparation for making the shortbread. It’s really easy to make and certainly doesn’t need an actual recipe because you basically just fill a container with sugar and mix a handful of the little lavender flowers in to it – roughly about two tablespoons of lavender flowers per 500g sugar. You then need to leave it for at least 3-5 days for the lavender to infuse into the sugar before you use it.
You can use lavender sugar in all sorts of recipes – just use it instead of normal sugar to make your cakes, biscuits, scones and cookies a bit more interesting!
I’ll share some of our ideas on here over the next couple of weeks….
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Do you sift the lavendar out when you intend to use it, or just leave it in?
I’ve been wanting to plant lavender in the garden so I could make some lavender sugar. My friend makes delicious scones with it.
I’ve been wanting to plant lavender in the garden so I could make some lavender sugar. My friend makes delicious scones with it.
Who knew you could do this – would love to try a lavender cake
I've never even thought of using lavender to make shortbread or lemonade. Can't wait to see how they turn out for you
I'd never have imagined you could put lavender in baking, surely it just tastes like old soap?
I wondered what you might use lavender sugar for when I saw the title of this post! Great work – let us know how your baking goes?
I would never have thought to make anything like this, such a great idea
wow that looks Epic!
I've never thought to do this and we have loads of lavender here, thanks Mich x
wow i never knew you could do this. that would be lovely in biscuits.