Lavender Flower Sugar Cookies

Here in the Pacific Northwest, we have a whole lot of lavender. There’s even a lavender festival a few hours from here, and it’s gorgeous! Lavender everything- lavender honey, lavender soaps, lavender treats, lavender candles- you get the idea. If you can put lavender into it, you can get it there. But my favorite part of lavender festival season isn’t the shopping, it’s the walking through the fields! Many of the farms open up their lavender fields for the public to enjoy when the lavender is in full flower. It’s amazing scenery and an even more incredible smell! But because it only happens during the summer, I’ve been lavender-less for months. But not anymore!

One of the best things about this design is how absolutely simple it is, while still impressing everyone. Once you get the simple technique down for the lavender flower itself, you’re set! I’ll break down the steps to creating the lavender effect below.

• The first thing you’ll want to do is make up a batch of sugar cookies. You can find my favorite recipe here, or use your own preferred recipe.
• I made my cookies shaped like sticks to show off the typical long lavender stalk, and you can find the 5″x1.75″ cookie cutter I used here on Amazon.
• While your cookies cool, you can prepare your royal icing. You will want to make white to pipe and flood, along with both green and purple in piping consistency to create your flower.

With all that out of the way, let’s get our lavender on!

Begin by flooding your cookies with the white royal icing, and allow it to dry several hours. If you use a counter top fan, you can wait as little as 2 hours before you continue, and I definitely recommend a fan for all cookie decorating! Once your icing is firm, you can pipe a long ‘V’ stem shape onto the cookie surface in green. Allow your stem about an hour to dry before continuing to prevent color bleeding.

Now it’s time to work on the lavender flower! You can follow the steps photographed to make an easy, impressive bloom.

1. Start your flower by drawing two squiggly lines on the outside edges of the flower, beginning at the top and moving downward.
2. To begin the second step, start your line much higher and in the center of the flower. After making one ‘squiggle’, move the the left and continue your line downward.
3. Now fill in the right side of the flower, starting a little below the flower tip.
4. Pipe the green leaf detail once your flower has had time to dry.

And that’s all there is to it! Let me know how everything worked for you in the comments, or if you have any questions that I can help answer. Happy decorating!