27 Lavender Recipes We Know Will Fuel Your Food Obsession.

Lavender is one of those secret ingredients that adds decadence to a recipe. It can be misused while cooking so you need to only choose the best ingredients to pair it with and also the best culinary lavender to add to your food. I’ve gathered together some of the top lavender recipes that you can trust. Believe me when I say you do not want your dish to taste overly floral.  

Lemon Lavender Curd

This recipe for Lavender Lemon Curd is a good combination sweet and tart, fruity and citrusy. You can just eat it by itself (delicious) or you can try it in crepes or as a filling in a layer cake or in a tart or mix it with some cream cheese to make the BEST fruit pizza frosting. It can be used in so many ways you should definately try this recipe.

Lavender Tea

I grew up having tea parties with my aunts on my mom’s side and my cousins every summer. Whenever we got together a tea party would be planned as one of the day’s activities. Everything was homemade and fresh. Everyone would contribute a dish and our table would be loaded with little sandwiches and cakes and tarts. You could say I’m an expert at tea parties (if there where such a thing). 

My husband and I met in London, I would get tea almost every day at the quaintest little tea shops. Imagine Lavender Scones (link down further) and lavender tea together. So YUMMY. It feels like you are living in a different time period and makes for a special experience. 

You can make any tea a lavender tea. Steep you your lavender buds with your other tea packets or fresh herbs or you can add one drop of culinary lavender oil to any tea. (you can add more but lavender is quite potent so err on the side of caution.

Honey Lavender Sucker (Tea Spoons)

Aren’t these adorable?

I love to make a batch of these suckers and serve them at every one of our tea parties throughout the summer. We have SO many tea parties during the summer, sometimes every week. We use the suckers as stirring spoons in our mint tea to add a sweet lavender flavor. The flavors go so well together it is probably one of my favorite ways to eat lavender. 

Lavender Creme Brûlée

This is the Sweet Olive Farms official creme brulee. It is THE BEST recipe for creme brulee whether you add lavender or not. 

In my opinion cream can carry any flavor and be amazing. Paired with the floral notes of lavender and you’ve got yourself an amazing desert you could serve to royalty. Yum! This recipe for Honey Lavender Creme Brulee is from Entertaining with Beth.

Lavender Sugar

Lavender Sugar is really easy to make and Red Ted Art has made instructions so easy even you child could make it for a cute little gift. It’s handy to have on hand because it can be the base for any one of these lavender recipes. So if you’re just starting out with lavender maybe try this one first so you can try it in small amounts first.

Lavender Bread

The Butter Half (a great food blog) has this beautiful lemon lavender ice cream bread recipe that is delicious and lovely. 

Lavender Turnovers & Tarts

If you’ve never visited Local Milk Blog then you are missing out on some of the most beautiful food you will ever see. Beth has lots of different lavender recipes, since turnovers have my heart we had to go with this Lavender Blueberry Ricotta Turnover recipe. 

Pear Tart with Lavender Glaze. I made this over the weekend and there was not a crumb left within just a few mintues it was snarfed up. 

To make this tart you can make your own puff pastry or Peppridge farms makes a easy yummy frozen puff pastry. Roll out your dough lay sliced pears on it and fold the edges of the tart over the sides of the fruit. Bake at 400 degrees for about 15-20 minutes. The glaze is 1/4 cup powdered sugar, 1 drop culinary lavender oil, and 1 tsp. milk. mix until liquidy and drizzle on top of warm tart

Lavender Scones

Peachy Lavender curd on top of brown butter scones is what dreams are made of. This is what I will be making at our next tea party. 

Lavender Cakes

Lemon and lavender go so well together. Dense sweet cake that you can sink our teeth into. Recipe from Bon Appetit. 

This cake  from Half Baked Harvest is just beautiful. Lavender makes a good centerpiece especially in the form of cake. So good!

Lavender is such a beautiful and versatile plant. There truly is no end to the possibilities. I hope you enjoy these recipes. Please leave a comment if you try one and let us know what you think.