Recipes with fresh lavender

Looking to mix things up in the kitchen? Here are 20 recipes that use lavender that will inspire you to try cooking with lavender.

This super moist lemon lavender cake is bursting with warm lavender and zesty lemon flavors and drizzled with a gorgeous lavender glaze. It’s the perfect summer treat for breakfast, teatime, or dessert!

Lavender White Chocolate Chip Cookies

Using my favorite scones recipe, you can make bakery-style lavender scones at home. Dried lavender adds lovely flavor without tasting overpowering.

Easy homemade lavender lemonade made from fresh lavender flowers.

This sweet lavender syrup, also called lavender simple syrup, is perfect for adding a floral touch to any drink. Create lavender flavored lattes, cocktails, teas, sodas or lemonades just by mixing a spoonful into your drink.

Chewy lavender scented sugar cookies with crisp exteriors and swirls of blueberry compote.

Creamy, lavender ice cream is naturally sweetened with honey and boasts a lovely, light floral flavor of fresh lavender flowers.

These lavender Earl Grey cookies are chewy, buttery sugar cookies infused with the floral flavors of both Earl Grey tea and dried lavender petals. The recipe is from my friend Amy Ho's new book, Blooms and Baking!

Like spring-time in your mouth, this Lemon Lavender Loaf Cake is bursting with bright citrus and delicate floral flavor! This easy to make Lemon Lavender Loaf Cake gets it’s flavor from freshly zested lemon that is rubbed with sugar to bring out that extra-lemony flavor, freshly squeezed lemon juice, and dried culinary lavender that is ‘bloomed’ in oil to unlock all those amazing floral flavor compounds!