Here at SBS Teas, we offer organic lavender buds and lavender sugar. Recently a wonderful customer asked how to use our lavender sugar. Here are some tips on use and a nice recipe.

Lavender sugar is great in pink lemonade, over desserts, on top of cake frosting and much more. It is really good in earl grey and regular black tea.

The fresh organic lavender buds actually flavors the tea in a natural way instead of using a chemical type flavoring.

Brenda Hyde of Old Fashioned Living offers up this recipe:

Lavender Lemon Shortbread

Ingredients:
1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
grated zest of one large lemon
1 tablespoon lavender flowers, finely chopped
2 tablespoons lavender sugar

Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl until well blended and light. Sift the flour and salt together in another bowl, and add to the butter and sugar mixture. Add the vanilla, lemon zest and lavender. Mix thoroughly. Roll the dough into a ball and wrap in waxed paper or plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 to 4 hours. Press the dough into an 8-inch square pan. Sprinkle with lavender sugar and chill for another 45 minutes. Bake in 350 degree oven for 20 minutes until the shortbread is lightly browned. Cool in pan and cut into squares.

Enjoy! And let us know what other recipes with lavender you come up with.

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