Find ways to use edible flowers in a variety of recipes, including lavender, elderflower, rose and more.
I make this tea cake when the lavender is in bloom. Try it with fresh strawberry slices on top.
I make this jam (actually, I suppose it's more like a jelly) every year in early June with big beautiful elderflowers. It requires soaking for 3 days before you can actually make the jam in less than 15 minutes after that. Besides spreading it on bread, you can use it to glaze fruit tarts or as a sweet filling for cakes mixed with cream.
A buttery lavender-flavoured biscuit that can be made into round shapes using a scone cutter.
The aromatic lavender combined with soft honey flavours and toasted almonds give these cupcakes an intensity of flavour that is luxuriously decadent and festive.