Lavender’s PR team has clearly been working overtime, because both the color and flavor are everywhere. These lavender cookie recipes pair the floral ingredient with partners like lemon, shortbread, coconut, and honey.
Because just like Mahomes and Kelce, lavender works great in a team setting. These lavender cookies are Super Bowl material, for sure. As long as you don’t forget the buffalo chicken dip.
From crisps coated in the signature color to biscotti perfect for dipping your tea in, these are the cookies of our spring fantasies. Yup, those are the same ones where we don’t have allergies. Hey, at least baking these recipes isn’t just a pipe dream.
23 Lavender Cookies
1. Lavender Earl Grey Shortbread Cookies
Lavender + tea + shortbread equals one scrumptious cookie. You don’t even need a calculator to add this up. But it’s always good to keep one in your back pocket, just in case.
You can even put it in the freezer. The cookie dough, not the calculator.
2. Lemon Lavender Cookies
The lemon in these cookies makes us think of lemonade. Lemonade makes us think of Beyoncé. Please excuse us while we queue up our Queen Bey Spotify playlist. These cookies got us looking so crazy in love.
3. Lemon Lavender Shortbread Cookies
These lemon lavender shortbread cookies will not fall short of your expectations. They are like red carpet Zendaya: flawless and pitch perfect.
Just look at that chic purple twine. Can you turn a little to the left?
4. London Fog Cookies
London Fog is an Earl Grey tea drink, not just a weather condition. Well, we suppose it can be both if you’re ordering a London fog on a foggy day in London.
Luckily, these cookies bring the floral fragrance of the beloved tea drink without the dreary weather. Leave your umbrellas safely at home.
5. Lavender Cookies
The lavender drizzle and hint of lemon zest really make these cookies pop. And that’s saying a lot in a world filled with cake pops, pop tarts, lollipops, and soda pop. We respect all pops here. Especially grand-pops.
6. Lavender Coconut Tigernut Flour Cookies
Raise your hand if you had to Google “tigernut.”
*Raises hand.*
Now that we’ve established they aren’t nuts and they don’t come from tigers, we’re only slightly disappointed. But, tigernut flour gives a nutty vibe to these lavender cookies and we are coconuts for it.
7. Lavender Shortbread Cookies
Lavender and shortbread go together like Miley Cyrus and flowers. A British twist on a classic. Not Miley. She’s as American as they come.
8. Gluten-Free Lemon Lavender Cookies
These cookies have a secret ingredient: white chocolate chunks. This is a solid choice, because chunks melt faster than chips, leaving you with a gooier cookie.
Chocolate chunks > chocolate chips. That’s right, we said it and we’re not taking it back.
9. Lemon Lavender Cookies with Lemon Glaze
Lavender falls between indigo and violet on the rainbow. With lemon glaze on top, please.
10. Lemon Lavender Sable Cookies
Sable cookies have a delicate buttery taste that pairs perfectly with the lemon-lavender flavor. These cookies really have that superstar glow. And that’s even without the Clarendon filter.
11. Lemon Pizzelle Sandwiches with Lavender Cheesecake
Olive Garden’s Tour of Italy has nothing on this pizzelle-cheesecake-lavender mashup. We would take unlimited batches of these cookies in a heartbeat. Mamma Mia!
12. Lavender Lemon Biscotti
You say you’ve never tried lavender lemon biscotti? You biscotti be kidding me.
Jokes aside, they’re about to become your favorite twice-baked treat since potatoes. Seriously.
13. Blueberry Lavender Tea Cookies
These cookies are pre-tea purple. Speaking of purple, did you know that’s the actual color of blueberries? Why haven’t we been calling them purpleberries our whole lives? Who is in charge of naming berries and how can we get in touch with them?
14. Blackberry Lavender Macarons
When tart blackberries meet herbal lavender, it creates a flavor explosion of epic proportions. We may not have thought to put these two together, but we’re glad we did. They just belong together.
15. Lavender Shortbread (+Lavender Strawberries & Cream)
With lavender, shortbread, strawberries, and cream, these cookies have more range than Ariana Grande. You’ll be saying “thank u, next,” as you devour each and every one. Your host will love you.
16. Award-Winning Lemon Lavender Cookies
With “Award Winning,” in the title, you can’t really go wrong.
The lemon-lavender-shortbread combo gets a 10/10 for flavor, texture, and production value. Even the cranky third judge would agree.
17. Lavender Scones
We could totally see Kate Middleton sampling one of these classy treats at a garden luncheon. Purple is the color of royalty, and these lavender scones are crowned Queen of the Afternoon Tea Menu.
Even the March Hare and Mad Hatter would agree, and we know how particular they are about a tea menu.
18. Honey & Lavender Shortbread Cookies
Honey and lavender are clearly meant to bee. These cookies means bees-ness. Uh-oh, we. might have just used up our very last pun. Did you ever think this day would come?
19. Honey Lavender Latte Cookies
Now you can have your latte and eat it too. We’ll take one pump of lavender and two pumps of honey, please. Nothing like racking up those reward points.
20. Lavender Lemon Shortbread Bars
Are bars considered cookies, or are they more like distant relatives? Can bars be cookies, but cookies can’t be bars? A philosophical question for the ages.
All we know is, we’ll eat cookies in any shape they come in.
21. Triangular Lemon Lavender Shortbread Cookies
Speaking of shapes, what’s not to love about triangles? Some of our favorite foods come in triangles: pizza, pie, and pitas. Oh my!
These lemon lavender shortbread cookies have three corners that fit right in.
22. Lavender Sugar Cookies
Mary Poppins taught us that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Oh, and according to Dr. Google, lavender has calming and relaxing benefits. When has Dr. Google ever been wrong?
23. Chewy Lavender Sugar Cookies
These cookies will make you want to bite off more than you can chew. Resist the urge, so you can savor each bite of these pillowy treats.
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Thank you for including my bars and cookies in this lovely round up!