If purple is the color of royalty, then these lavender recipes will have everyone eating them saying, “All hail the Queen!” You’re officially the new Monarch of Spring thanks to these deliciously floral drinks and scrumptiously aromatic snacks.
From lovely lemon lavender cookies to recipes that’ll save you some dough at Starbucks, these lavender recipes are bound to keep you from feeling blue. It’s purple’s time to shine.
25 Lavender Recipes
1. Lemon Lavender Cookies
These lemon lavender cookies would be the Cookie Monster’s favorite if he lived on the Upper East Side and attended afternoon teas. He would call the regular Cookie Monster “uncultured.”
But even the OG Cookie Monster would end up falling in love with this twist on traditional lemon cookies, topped with an aromatic lemon lavender glaze.
2. Lavender Tea Latte
How much do we like lavender? We like it a latte. We also like dad humor. But we especially love this lavender tea latte, made with black tea and lavender simple syrup.
Top it with some frothy milk and lavender buds, then share with your own buds. As in your taste buds. It’s too good to actually share.
3. Earl Grey Lavender Cake
This Earl Grey lavender cake is giving us Downton Abbey vibes. So if you want to pretend you’re up in high society and dating Dan Stevens, this cake is for you.
Prepare to cheers with some Earl Grey and lavender cake topped with a rich purple cream cheese buttercream.
4. Lavender Sugar
If watermelon sugar means what everyone thinks it means, we have to ask: What’s lavender sugar? You know, other than a cane sugar mix made with fresh or dried lavender buds.
You ponder that while we add this sugar to, well, everything.
5. Lavender Lemon Biscotti
Growing up in an Italian family, there was one rule: You made biscotti because it was tradition, but nobody actually had to eat it. Biscotti was reserved for your enemies. It’s the fruit cake of the cookie world.
But not these biscotti cookies. Made with vanilla, lavender, and lemon zest, these twice-baked beauties are the exception, and a perfect one at that.
6. Blueberry Lavender Lemonade
Blueberry lavender lemonade? That kid on your block charging $10 for the sweetest lemonade you’ve ever had in your life could never.
Made with a simple blueberry and dried lavender syrup, fresh-squeezed lemon juice, and ice water, this lemonade will have your taste buds (and teeth) thanking you.
7. Mixed Berry Lavender Jam
Stuck in a jam? If it’s this mixed berry lavender jam, then we have to say: “Lucky you!” You, not your clothes. RIP light wash jeans.
Made with any berries you desire, dried lavender, and sugar, it’s the easiest jam you’ll ever deal with in your life.
8. Lavender Honey Syrup
Honey? Yes, dear? No, we mean legit honey, as in one of the central ingredients in this lavender honey syrup, a perfect addition to your summer cocktails.
The other two ingredients are just water and dried lavender.
9. Sparkling Lavender Lemonade
If you’re the type to always say “sparkling” when the waiter asks your water preference, you’re bound to love this sparkling lavender lemonade made with lemon juice, lavender simple syrup, and lemon French soda.
You can also use lemon La Croix, but it makes your bougie points go down, I’m afraid. And you only needed 10 more to win a prize!
10. Lavender Truffles
You know when something is too pretty to eat? Thankfully, all our desserts come out looking like our three-year-old niece did it. So we’re safe to indulge in these lavender truffles, even though the recipe designer made them look so gorgeous.
Made with chocolate, extra virgin olive oil, and dried lavender, then dipped in melted chocolate, these truffles are a perfect summer treat.
11. Keto Lavender Ice Cream
If carbs make you go into hiding like you’re in the Witness Protection Program, you’re going to love this keto-friendly lavender ice cream. No need to choose a new identity.
With ingredients like coconut milk and mascarpone cream, you can get in your macros and get out of the kitchen before your partner comes home with something dangerous.
12. Lavender Honey Marshmallows
Eating a cloud sounds kind of unfulfilling, but we’re not sure how to describe these fluffy lavender honey marshmallows other than as a sweet, aromatic cloud. Made with gelatin, sugar, light corn syrup, honey, vanilla extract, and dried lavender buds, it’s probably the best-tasting cloud you’ll ever eat.
Which is…not saying a lot, we guess, unless you regularly eat clouds. But trust us, they’re the perfect addition to some lavender hot chocolate. You don’t know how to make that? Well…
13. Lavender Hot Chocolate
Oh, look, lavender hot chocolate! Now you have no excuse not to make it. Unless you’re, like, allergic to lavender. In which case, we’re not sure why you’re here.
This lavender hot chocolate is super creamy, made with whole milk and heavy cream, plus tons of chocolate, cocoa powder, and dried lavender.
14. Lavender-Vanilla Iced Coffee
This lavender-vanilla iced coffee is a perfect summer treat. Or a year-round treat if you’re one of those people who insists upon wearing shorts in the middle of a blizzard.
Head out in the snow with a cup of this sweet, floral drink, made with cold brew, whole milk, heavy cream, and lavender-vanilla simple syrup. Everyone will think you’re super tough. No, really.
15. Lavender Macarons
If you saw the words “lavender macarons” and said, “Oh, good, I love coconut,” we must warn you never to go to Italy. Or France. You know what, just steer clear of Europe.
But if you want to make lavender macarons (just the one “o”), you’ll love this recipe. With lavender flowers baked right in and stuffed with a lavender, lemon, and white chocolate ganache, it’s so delicious that even a European would forgive your culinary transgression. Probably.
16. Cold Brew Lavender Ice Cream
When you see this recipe, you might say, “You’ve got to be yolking me!” Which is a joke because this cold brew lavender ice cream requires egg yolks. We probably should have explained that earlier.
Bad puns aside, this ice cream is also made with coffee and lavender (duh), as well as whole milk, sugar, heavy cream, and vanilla. It all culminates in a rich, creamy, custard-like ice cream.
17. Lavender White Chocolate Scones
Is butter a carb? We’re pretty sure these lavender white chocolate scones aren’t keto.
But you’re going to want to indulge in these buttery scones – stuffed with lemon, dried lavender, and white chocolate and covered in a lemon and vanilla icing – anyway. It’s not Toaster Strudel, but it’s still pretty fetch.
18. Lavender Chamomile Tea
Florals? For tea? Groundbreaking. But seriously, there’s a reason lavender and chamomile, with their calming effects, are such perfect, tried and true sleep aids.
But there’s nothing tired about this soothing lavender chamomile tea that takes an easy-to-make tea blend and boiling water to make. Go, you trendsetter, go. To sleep, that is.
19. Raw Sweet Lime Bars With Lavender and Bee Pollen
Key lime pie? We don’t know her. Okay, we do, and we still love her, but we might just love this sweet lime bar with lavender and bee pollen more.
These lime bars are chock-full of your-body-will-thank-you ingredients – like dates, which will make your colon sing a happy song. Maybe see a doctor about that if those vocals start interfering with your life, though.
20. Lavender Panna Cotta
Don’t speak Italian? We’ll translate for you. Panna cotta means “fancy Jello.” Somewhere, a thousand Italians just started weeping, and they don’t know why.
Panna cotta actually means “cooked cream,” and it’s made with gelatin, heavy cream, and, in the case of lavender panna cotta, lavender and vanilla. The best part? No baking required.
21. Lavender Buttercream Frosting
Making this lavender buttercream frosting is like doing a delicate dance. Too much lavender and you’re eating soap. Too much sea salt and you’re drinking the ocean.
But with the right balance of each, you’ll end up with a blonde lady breaking into your house, eating your food, and sleeping in your child’s bed. Goldilocks, you’re coming with us to the station.
22. Mini Blackberry Lavender Cheesecakes
With its graham-cracker crust, lavender cheesecake filling, and blackberry topping, these bite-sized beauties are a perfect treat. But since it’s fruit, it’s healthy, right?
So, feel free to eat them as start-of-day and middle-of-day treats, too. Just don’t tell your doctor we told you to do it, okay?
23. Iced Lavender Cream Oat Milk Matcha
An Iced Lavender Cream Oat Milk Matcha from Starbucks? $6. Making this earthy, floral copycat recipe at home and avoiding that barista you forgot your name in front of? Priceless.
With its oat milk matcha and lavender cold foam, it’s the prettiest way to be kind to your wallet. And also maybe your sanity.
24. Blackberry Lavender Scones
Flaky friends? Not great. Flaky hair? Also not great. But flaky scones? Sign us up.
Packed with fresh blackberries and dried lavender and topped with a lavender vanilla glaze, you’ll want to wake up every morning to these flaky blackberry lavender scones.
25. Lavender Simple Syrup
Remember that Frank’s Red Hot commercial where the lady says she puts that you-know-what on everything? At the risk of the full wrath of Frank’s legal department coming down on us, we have to say that you’ll feel the same way about this lavender simple syrup.
Made simply (as the name suggests) with sugar, dried lavender, and water, you’ll want to put that ish on everything.
She's also a published short story author who has appeared in anthologies like A Murder of Storytellers and the Abstract Elephant. Jacqueline challenges herself to learn one new skill per year, so you can often find her struggling to master crocheting, knitting, and embroidery when she's not writing.
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