How to make honey & lavender biscuits
Honey and lavender are two of nature’s most lovely cookery ingredients, and better still can be sourced from your own garden. Lavender is easy to grow as it requires very little attention. It thrives in a rockery-type garden and once grown can be on hand for use in many lavender recipes, both fresh when in season or dried out of season.
If you keep your own honey bees you’ll agree that there is nothing better than sampling your own, but as many people don’t they need to find another source and most local shops and markets will stock locally made honey.
Shop bought or locally grown and produced, the honey and lavender products in this culinary lavender recipe make it a much sought after treat!
You too can make delicious lavender biscuits
Honey and lavender biscuits
This honey and lavender recipe makes enough for approximately 20 biscuits (dependant on the size of the cutter).
Preparation time: 10-12 minutes
Baking time: 12-15 minutes (dependant on the oven used).
Cooling Time: 10 minutes
Ingredients list:
• 160g of Plain Flour
• 100g Butter (not margarine)
• 50g Caster sugar
• 2 tablespoons of fresh culinary lavender flowers, or dried which can be ground with a pestle and mortar
• 3 tbsp honey
Method:
1. Mix the butter and the sugar together in a bowl until creamed, pale and fluffy,
2. Add the flour and sprinkle the lavender in and mix.
Finally add enough honey, bit by bit, to flavour the lavender recipe but not too much so as to make it impossible to make effective dough for rolling out.
3. Split the dough into two equal sized balls, flatten to approximately a centimetre thick, wrap in Clingfilm and refrigerate for 30-40 minutes or until firm.
4. Before removing the biscuits from the fridge, preheat the oven to gas mark 3 / 170 C.
5. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface and use a biscuit cutter to make 18-20 biscuit shapes.
6. Bake for 10-15 minute or until the edges have started to brown, then remove the tray from the oven to cool.
Transfer after 5 minutes to a wire tray to cool properly
7. Decorate if required.
This is a very easy recipe to make and is a great one to do with children while talking to them about using homemade produce and different lavender products for cookery. The sweetness of the honey in the biscuits appeal to all and the delicate lavender overtones make it a firm favourite for afternoon tea, lunch boxes, late evening snacks with a tot of something warming or just for enjoying with a cup of tea.
Why not try the biscuits with some lavender lemonade
Decorate these biscuits with a light dusting of icing sugar or add decorative icing for an extra special treat for yourself or for when you have company. Being such an easy recipe to make, why not put together the ingredients in clear cellophane bags or small pots and jars, alongside the handwritten recipe and a bottle of lavender lemonade to enjoy them with in a suitable basket for an original and thoughtful gift for someone who likes trying something new or adores cookery.