Lavender Sugar
We’d like to introduce you to your new craving! Impress your friends and yourself with this simple and satisfying addition to your favorite baking recipe, topped on ice creams, oatmeals and cereal, or mixed in teas and coffees.
by AKL Featured Local Baker and Cookieprenear Mitzi Toro
Recipe Inspiration
Step into the little cookie shop in Makawao and be taken away by the fantastical decor and the smell of amazing cookies and other local sweets. Mitzi Toro has not only created a one of a kind delicacy in cookie form, she has also created a space to support local artisans in the inviting atmosphere and aroma in the heart of Makawao town.
Read more about Mitzi and her really amazing, serendipitous cookie journey here: Alii Kula Lavender Farm Local Chef Profile.
What goes well with Lavender Sugar?
Everything!
Well, anything that could use a touch of sweet:
- Coffee and teas
- Oatmeals and cereals
- Cakes
- Yogurt Parfait
- A bowl of fresh strawberries or other fruit
- A final touch on a cookie
- Morning toast and pancakes
The Maui Cookie Lady's Favorite Lavender Sugar Recipe
Ingredients
- · 1 cup of white sugar
- · 2 tablespoons of culinary lavender
Instructions
- Combine/whisk the lavender culinary buds with the sugar in a bowl.
- After combined put in a air tight jar or Tupperware container for the lavender to infuse with the sugar for a week preferably or at least 48 hours. Keep container out of direct sunlight.
- Slowly pour sugar in a sifter and sift to catch the buds to separate.
- The sifted sugar is ready to eat.
Notes
The Maui Cookie Lady AKL Lavender Sugar Recipe (stronger flavor)
Ingredients
- 2 cups of granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon of culinary lavender
Instructions
- Grind up the culinary lavender in a food processor. If you don’t have a processor, you can also use a coffee grinder.
- Whisk the ground culinary lavender into the sugar until well combined.
- Store in an air tight container, out of direct sunlight, for at least 48 hours but preferably a week.
- Lavender sugar can be used in a 1:1 replacement for any recipe that calls for granulated sugar.
Notes
· Sprinkle on a scone
· Swap out in your favorite dessert recipe
· Rim your favorite drink
· Drizzle on toast, bagel or ice cream
· Jar it, add an adorable label, purple yarn ribbon and give as a gift. This is a Great DIY present that showcases Maui's beautiful agriculture for someone who has everything.
