How to Use Lavender Sugar

If you love the smell of lavender, maybe you'd like to taste it, too. Lavender sugar, or lavender vanilla sugar, is an item available in specialty food stores, natural food stores or botanical or lavender gardens. Turbinado sugar intermixes with vanilla beans and lavender buds (or sometimes only lavender buds) to create an aromatic mixture that is basically used to replace sugar in recipes. Sometimes recipes call for extra lavender buds to more intensely enhance the flavor.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Lavender sugar or vanilla lavender sugar
• Dried lavender buds (optional)

1. Substitute a tablespoon or more in your dessert, cake, cookie, quickbread or jam recipe.

2. Use in lavender scones by substituting 1/4 cup lavender sugar for the regular sugar in your recipe. An added 2 tsp. of dried lavender buds are optional.

3. Try lavender sugar in any recipe that features lemon flavors through the use of lemon extract or lemon zest, such as lemon sugar cookies. Again, 1/4 cup lavender sugar is a good rule of thumb. Powdered sugar does not need to be substituted and should be used as the recipe indicates.

4. Boil lavender sugar instead of regular sugar in any candy recipe, especially candied nuts. In the case of boiling, it is okay to boil as much as one cup of lavender sugar.

Tips & Warnings

• If you prefer not to use the buds in your recipe, simply sift out the dried lavender buds. Next place them back in the jar and add back the amount of sugar you removed; this way you can keep your lavender sugar going.

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