How To Make Lilac Sugar Cookies Using Real Lilac Flowers
If you’re like me, then spring is your favorite season. The colors, the new scents from everything coming alive again after the cold winter.
I may seem a little weird compared to those around me because when spring gets here that is when I start looking for things to forage.
In recent years I’ve started a new hobby that helps me get in nature more, foraging. Foraging isn’t as common as it once was, because as a society we have huge grocery stores so it’s not a necessity to grow or search for food anymore.
But there is a huge resurgence of foraging across the world. And the popularization of TikTok and other social media outlets has made it more accessible to new foragers.
Last year, when my mother’s lilac bush started to flower, I decided to look up some things you can make with lilac flowers.
There’s lilac cordial, a fizzy drink made with water, sugar, lemon juice, and lilac flowers. Nature soda, if you want. This is on my list of things I want to try before the lilac bush stops flowering.
You can also make lilac cookies using the flowers! To start the cookies, you have to go forage flowers.
Now if you don’t have a bush on your property, there are always public parks, asking neighbors to forage from their plants.
But please don’t just randomly go into someone’s yard without permission, that would be stealing. You could always offer them the fruit of your forage baking. Some nice light floral cookies or whatever you make with them.
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Once you have a good amount of flowers, take them into your kitchen and get ready to cook.
Now, hear me out, don’t wash the flowers. You want all the natural yeast from the flowers to help the baking process along.
Here is a list of ingredients:
2 1/4 cups of all-purpose flour (or a baking flour of your choice), 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 2 cups lilac blossoms, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1 room temperature eggs.
To start: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
1. Cream together the butter and sugar until fluffy.
2. Next add the lilac blossoms and combine.
3. Beat in the egg and vanilla, mix well
4. In another bowl mix together the flour, salt, and baking powder.
5. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the blossom mixture until everything is combined.
6. Grease a cookie sheet and roll the dough into 1-inch balls. Flatten with the bottom of a glass jar dipped in sugar.
Bake for 12-13 minutes or until the edges are slightly golden brown.
Now you have a nice floral sugar cookie to enjoy. If you want you can even make a quick and easy glaze for them but that is completely optional.
All you’ll need is 1/2 cup of powdered sugar, 2 tablespoons of half-n-half (or milk will do), a pinch of salt, and some more lilac blossoms.
Put a little drizzle of glaze over the cookies and it makes them just a little bit sweeter.
Though my family is always a little apprehensive when I make a “weird” recipe, they’re normally always willing to try my new baked goods.
If you decided to give this interesting recipe for cookies a try, please let us know in the comments below.
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