Sweet and chewy lavender and honey cookie recipe with melted butter and vanilla. A unique edible flower dish to serve at garden parties or tea parties
Edible flowers add a taste dimension that is still relatively new to many. With flavors from peppery, to cucumber-like, to deeply floral, flowers like Lavender can be used to add color to dishes but also unusual and pleasant flavor. Almost nutty. This recipe combines a honey-sweet and buttery cookie base with the aromatic flavor of lavender buds. It’s a recipe that will remind you of summer when bees are buzzing and the sweet scent of lavender wafts in with the breeze.
Honey & Lavender Cookies
⅔ cup / 150g melted Butter
1 cup / 215g white Sugar
¼ cup / 75g Honey
1 Egg
1 tsp Vanilla extract
2 cups/ 300g Flour
2 tsp Baking soda (Bicarbonate)
½ tsp Salt
Coarse-grained sugar, for rolling
2 Tbsp Lavender buds, fresh or dried
Make these cookies for a special occasion like Mother’s Day, a birthday, or a girlie gathering. They could also be packaged up in a pretty box and given as a beautiful handmade gift. If you grow your own Lavender it can make them even more special to the lucky recipient.
1. Preheat the oven to 350°F / 175°C (165°C for convection ovens)
2. Beat the melted butter, honey, and sugar until smooth.
3. Beat in the egg and vanilla until well incorporated then fold in the flour, baking soda, and salt.
4. The dough will be very soft so refrigerate for at least thirty minutes and until it has firmed up.
5. Take 1.-2 Tbsp sized pieces of dough and shape them into balls. Flatten them with the palm of your hand and then roll in the coarse-grained sugar, coating the whole cookie. Sprinkle the tops with lavender buds and gently press them into the cookie.
6. Bake on a parchment-lined baking sheet for 10 minutes or until the edges are crispy and light brown in color. They’ll still be soft when you take them out so let them cool to room temperature before eating. Enjoy ~
Honey & Lavender Cookie recipe from Lovely Greens
Hello, I would like to make these cookies. How many does this recipe yield? Thank you!
It depends on how large you make the cookies, but around two dozen 🙂
My neighbor was so kind as to share a batch of these that she just made. SO delicious! Love the crispy, chewy texture and the touch of honey and lavender. Yum.
Thanks for sharing! Do they keep long?
Only a few days
This looks so good! What a great flavor twist on a sugar cookie!
I’m trying two plant based substitutions with these – country crock plant butter 1:1 and FYH veganegg ™ . They’re in the oven now but they look and smell GORGEOUS.
Hi Tanya
I have just made these lavender honey biscuits. They are delicious and pretty. With my folks around they will not last for later.
Thanks for sharing your great recipes.
Enjoy Maria! I need to make another batch soon too. They’re so yummy 🙂
I fell in love with these cookies back in 2017, however, a year ago I was diagnosed with celiac and had to give up gluten. I just made these for the first time today using gluten free flour and they came out perfect. So for anyone with celiac or gluten sensitivity these are a winner!!
I was a little upset when I pulled my first batch from the oven. I followed the recipe to a T! I even weighed all the ingredients out (which I NEVER do). My cookies where super thin/flat. (They spread out A LOT…so much that there was no space between cookies). I had to throw the whole first tray out. They smelled delicious, so I attempted a second round….I did a small tablespoon sized ball this time and didn’t flatten them out with my palm..just finger tips. Hopefully they will turn out better this time. Any suggestion as to why my cookies aren’t baking correctly?
Can you let us know how your second batch turned out?
I also used the measurements and the 12 individual cookies came out of the oven as one sheet pan size cookie. I believe the butter measurement is incorrect. 2/3 cup of butter in grams should be about 150 grams, not 170 grams. They still taste great, supper buttery, but do not look good.
I love lavender and honey together, but often find the underlying recipes to be pretty mediocre. So I made these for tea, ready to enjoy the lavender/honey combo, but hate the cookie. I muttered about melted butter, whatever I don’t have time to let them chill, why there wasn’t any lavender in the dough, and declared that they clearly appeared “cake-y” as I watched them bake.
I’m a jerk. They were amazing. The texture was spot on. The honey flavor was perfect. Chewy, but still crispy. Not cake-y at all. I particularly enjoyed just the lavender on top, I got these lovely pops of it in each bite without being assaulted by a pervasive soap type thing. Had them with a pot of hot black tea.
I did accidentally go a little generous on the salt, but that somehow worked out too, it accentuated the honey lavender. I might oversalt them again ;).
A truly outstanding recipe. I’m sorry for all the terrible things I said about you in my head, I take them all back.
This comment made me smile 🙂 Thanks so much Salem and so pleased you’re a fan of the recipe! I might try the next batch with a little extra salt too.
I made these cookies following the recipe exactly, for our family reunion this summer. I used honey from our hives and lavender from my herb garden. They we’re a huge hit! Everyone loved them and they disappeared rapidly. I doubled the recipe, but wished I had made even more so there had been some left for me! I will definitely be making these again. Thank you for the wonderful recipe!
That’s so wonderful to hear! I’m super pleased that you and your family loved them that much. Even better so since you used your own honey 🙂
I don’t usually post comments, but I felt I had to regarding these cookies. These are the best cookies ever! I now have a serious lavender addiction. I will be the first to admit that lavender is definitely an acquired taste. I have always loved the lavender chewing gum so the flavor was not new to me. I can say that my husband and son cannot stand them as it reminds them of what a urinal smells like in a public retsroom. LOL I have taken them to work and there are only a couple of co-workers that did like them, once again it is an acquired taste. Over the past three months I have made three batches. FYI- they freeze very well. Because I am the only one that eats them since my daughter is away at college I put them in a gallon ziploc and freeze the entire batch. When I want one I just grab it right from the freezer. No need to thaw!!!
What a lovely message! Yes, lavender is an acquired taste but for those with adventurous palates it’s a real treat. Great idea with freezing the dough too — I’d probably be tempted to eat it that way!
Wow!! I never leave comments but I feel I have to for this recipe! These cookies a YUMMY! I didn’t follow the recipe exactly (I’m terrible with that haha) I put the lavender directly into the dough (while mixing the wet ingredients) and added a little lemon zest. I didn’t have to refrigerate the dough …probably because if the extra volume the lavender flowers added to the recipe. I think that’s probably why mine didn’t spread out that much either. Anywhoo they’re fabulous!! Bringing them to a midsummer festival tomorrow ❤ Will probably make them again next week to bring to my ms house haha
That’s amazing Christine — so happy that you’re so pleased with the recipe that you left a message. Really hope your friends at the Midsummer festival enjoyed them 🙂
I was skeptical to make these because the lack of reviews(I read lots of reviews before I jump into a recipe). Made them tonight for a friends boutique opening tomorrow and am so happy I made them. What I’m not happy about is running out of flour so I couldn’t make more. I added the lavender into the dough and used raw sugar instead of white sugar and only coated one side in sugar. They are so good. They spread a lot and came out thin with a nice crisp edge and soft center. I can’t wait to make more of these cookies. Thank you for sharing this. Perfect for a tea party as well. I didn’t think my picky 4 year old would like them but he’s on cookie number 2. My house smells like lavender and honey, I want to bottle it up and wear it!
Do you melt the butter in a pot of room temperture melted butter?
Made these for a family gathering, they where amazing. I used lavender honey and it added a bit more lavender flavor.
Beautiful and I’m sure very tasty idea!
For the butter, do you use salted or non-salted?
I these look & sound delish!!! And my son is super excited to make these for us tomorrow. We had a quick question re when to incorporate the lavender buds into the recipe . . . does it go in the dough or is it simply used to garnish & add the flavor to the tops of the delicious honey flavored delights?? Can't wait to see what other goodies you have here!! thanks so much!!! SAB
Hi there! We messaged via Facebook about this topic but for the benefit of anyone else reading, you can choose to do either. Simply pressing them into the tops of your cookies is enough but for even more lavender flavour do try mixing them into the dough.