How to Make Lavender Infused Honey
If you're looking for a delicious and relaxing way to unwind at the end of a long day, try making this delicious lavender-infused honey for tea! This recipe is simple and easy to make, but the results are simply delightful. To make this recipe, simply combine high-quality honey with fragrant and flavorful lavender buds. Allow the mixture to steep to infuse the honey with the soothing and calming properties of lavender. When you're ready to enjoy, simply add a spoonful of the lavender-infused honey to your favorite cup of tea for a sweet and floral flavor that's sure to help you relax and unwind. Perfect for serving with chamomile, lavender, or other calming teas, this lavender-infused honey is a must-try for anyone who loves the soothing properties of herbal teas!
Does Lavender and Honey go Together?
It’s no secret that bees have a love affair with lavender and so this little recipe is a marriage made in heaven. Lavender infused in wild flower honey is so sweetly floral and works perfectly to delicately sweeten tea.
You can also use this wonderful honey to sweeten desserts, add to fruit salads, yogurt, granola or try making it into a lavender honey simple syrup for your favorite fruity cocktails, iced tea recipes and in delicious lavender honey lattes too.
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If you love tea recipes as much as I do, try adding a spoonful of homemade lavender infused honey to one of these teas:
Lavender Honey vs Lavender Infused Honey
You can, of course, buy lavender honey rather than making lavender infused honey. Lavender honey is the honey made by bees that have collected pollen and nectar from lavender flowers. The taste of lavender honey is very floral with light lavender notes as you would most probably expect. This recipe is for infusing dried lavender into wildflower honey for a more intense lavender flavour. Plus lavender honey can be a little expensive, making infused lavender honey will save you a few pennies.
Does Wildflower Honey Taste Different?
I’m wild about wild flower honey. Unlike other types of honey, the taste is always slightly different depending on the season and the location of the bees. The taste will always be very delicate and floral, however subtle changes can be noted on varying factors such as the location and the season. Organic wild flower honey is perfect for baking and to use in tea as the taste is so gracefully gentle, it doesn’t overpower any of the other flavour components.
Making Lavender Infused Honey From Scratch
Making lavender infused honey from scratch is as simple as warming the honey just enough so that it is liquid, but not enough that it burns or changes the taste of the honey. Add the lavender and allow to infuse for at least 8 hours. You may need to warm the honey up again to strain out the lavender flowers. Remembering to just warm the honey slightly so that the flavor of the honey doesn’t change. Use a fine mesh strainer or sieve to strain the honey.
INGREDIENTS
1 Cup of Honey
2 Tablespoons of Dried Lavender
METHOD
In a small saucepan, warm the honey and stir in the dried lavender. Continue to gently heat for around 3 minutes to infuse the flavours, keep stirring and do not allow the honey to bubble or burn.
Set aside and to cool. After 8 hours (or overnight), gently warm up the infused honey over a low heat. Again do not allow to bubble or burn as this will change the flavor of the honey.
To strain out the lavender flowers, pour the mixture through a fine mesh strainer into a mason jar.
Store in a cool, dry place, and use in all your favorite tea recipes :)
TO MAKE LAVENDER SIMPLE SYRUP
Making lavender simple syrup is super easy and the next step if you would like to add the lavender honey flavor into cocktails, mocktails and cold drinks. Simple syrup mixes much easier in cold liquids than honey. To make lavender simple syrup, use 1 part lavender infused honey and 1 part water. In a saucepan and over a medium heat mix the lavender infused honey and water and keep stirring until everything has combined, this will take around five minutes. Remove from the heat and pour into a mason jar. Once cooled, store in the fridge and use in all your favorite cocktails and mocktails.
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