Lovely Lavender Recipes: Savory, Sweet, Food & Drinks

Lavender Recipes for everything from cocktails to desserts and main dishes! Cooking with lavender creates fragrant, beautiful recipes for a special dining (and drinking) experience you’ll love. 

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Lavender is best known for its fragrant, delicate Provencal appearance in soaps, sachets, essential oil and other body care products.

At least in the U.S., using culinary lavender to enhance a recipe with a Mediterranean sway is a road less traveled.

Lavender use has broadened over the past years with recipes showcasing the aromatic herb in everything from desserts to cocktails with savory dishes in between.

This collection of Lovely Lavender Recipes illustrates the versatility of this delicious herb.

I personally keep culinary lavender in my spice pantry and enjoy incorporating it in everything from salads to a simple favorite Roasted Lavender Potatoes dish that is a hit in my home.

This was the beginning of experimenting with lavender in many recipes and sharing these 15 lovely lavender recipes with you today!

HOW TO COOK WITH LAVENDER

When cooking with dried lavender flowers it is key to ensure using culinary/edible lavender and not lavender prepared for things like potpourri which can be treated with chemicals.

Where to Buy Culinary Lavender

Culinary lavender may be purchased at well stocked grocery stores, herb/spice stores or apothecaries, as well a grown in a pot or home garden for picking anytime.

With a small amount added to many recipes, a ho-hum dish can be elevated to having international flair!

Being particularly compatible with the flavors of honey and lemon, lavender is a perfect summertime herb to brighten seasonal foods.

I wanted to share some of my own favorite recipes, as well as other mouthwatering recipes I found on the internet, to whet your appetite to try some lavender in your own kitchen all year round.

These recipes are made with simple, whole ingredients, bursting with flavor to perk up grilling, salads, dessert, cocktails and more. Naturally gluten-free too!

Lovely Lavender Recipes

Pink Lemonade Lavender Thyme Sorbet is a sweet, delicate sorbet that is unforgettably delicious.

The unique combination of flavors in this lavender sorbet is completely refreshing dessert option like nothing you’ve tried before!

Pink Lemonade Lavender Thyme Sorbet

This sorbet is cooling, thirst-quenching and packed with sophisticated flavors of thyme and lavender to compliment the Pink Lemonade.

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Lemon-Honey glazed Shortbread with Lavender Buds  

These prim, luscious cookies are really a prepared cookie hack (shhh…..no one will ever know!).

Prepared shortbread cookies (gluten-free or regular) are doused with a lemon-honey glaze and adorned with a fragrant sprig of fresh lavender for a perfumed bite.

This lavender shortbread will be the talk of any party!

Edible Flower Springtime Tea Party

These bright spring recipes for Rose Cupcakes with Whipped Cream Frosting and Lemon-Honey glazed Shortbread with Lavender Buds are the hit of any event of meal. Using edible flowers adds a unique touch as well as visual beauty! These versions are gluten free based on the mixes and cookies selected. Any cake mix or cookies may be used.

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Lavender Roasted Potatoes 

Adding a bit of lavender to simple roast potatoes transforms them into a completely new side dish with a sophisticated flavor and no effort.

Lavender Roasted Potatoes

This simple roast potato recipe is transporting with the flavor or lavender conjuring flavors of Provence. It's sure to freshen up any meal.

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Meyer Lemon Lavendar Mojitos 

Citrusy lavender mojitos are a refreshing unique cocktail that will take the heat out of any summer day.

Meyer Lemon Lavender Mojitos

Mojitos aren't just for limes anymore! Meyer lemons and lavender paired with traditional mint create a light, refreshing Mojito that is unexpected and tastes deliciously of spring.

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French Lemonade with Lavender  

If you can’t travel to France, bring the culinary spirit home with this beautiful lavender-infused lemonade.

It takes lemonade to a new level.

French Lemonade with Lavender {French Lemonade with Lavender {Citron Pressé avec le Lavande}

My personal spin on a thirst quenching French cafe sipper: Citron Presse. Unlike American lemonade which can be almost sickly sweet with sugar, French Lemonade is a wonderful blend between clean lemon flavors, lightly sweetened with a lemon-lavender simple syrup. Ingredients can be tailored for one's personal taste. The Lemon-Lavender Simple Syrup need not be limited to this lemonade. It would be wonderful in light cocktails as well.

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Chocolate Lavender Fudge with Salted Caramel Top

The addition of lavender buds and sea salt to this caramel topped chocolate fudge can only be described as the stuff sweet dreams are made of.

Chocolate Lavender Fudge with Salted Caramel Top

The sophisticated flavor of chocolate and lavender make this creamy fudge unique and unexpected. The addition of the salted caramel top make it a home run. The fudge is fantastic on its own for those preferring to stop there. The caramel provide an additional dimension to the depth of flavor.

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Lemongrass-Lavender Green Sun Tea

This is not your mother’s 1970’s sun tea. Lemongrass and lavender combine with antioxidant powerhouse green tea for an intoxicating summer sipper you’ll love.

Lemongrass-Lavender Green Sun Tea

Not your Mama's Sun Tea, this Lemongrass-Lavender Green Sun Tea has refreshing unexpected flavors perking up the Dog Days of Summer. Though fresh lemongrass and lavender may be used, dried herbs are more readily found in most areas. When using dried lavender, please ensure it is for culinary use and not treated for use in decorative potpourri which is inedible.

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More Lavender Recipes

It doesn’t stop there! Main dishes, salads, desserts, cocktails and condiments will enliven your table with beautiful culinary lavender….

Lemon and Lavender Chicken {Yum Sugar}

Grilled Leg of Lamb with Lavender-Rosemary Rub {Joanne Weir}

Lavender-Scented Summer Fruit Salad {Health.com}

Peach and Feta Salad with Lavender Dressing {Honest Cooking}

Honey Lavender Panna Cotta {The Kitchen}

Honey Lavender Ice Cream {Martha Stewart}

Lavender Crème Brulée {Jamie Oliver}

Peach Lavender Jam {Love and Olive Oil}

Lemon & Lavender Vodka Tonic {Bakers Royale}

Lavender Simple Syrup {About.com}

Make Your Own Herbes de Provence {The Spurce Eats}

Infused Lavender Honey {Tasty}

How to Make Lavender Sugar {The Spruce Eats}