1. Sprinkle on soups & salads

Just before serving, sprinkle on a few dried edible flower petals or carefully place a few fresh ones on top of your soups and salads.

Edible flowers look especially pleasing on pureed soups (perhaps a pumpkin or cauliflower bisque?) and fresh green salads. They add just the right amount of wow factor to let your dinner guests know how much thought and intention you put into feeding them a delicious meal.

PRO TIP: Savory flowers such a nasturtiums, arugula flowers, and mustard flowers go especially well with savory foods like soups and salads. Plus, these peppery flowers add a perfect little punch of flavor. But any flowers will do! 

2. Stir them into your biscuits & scones

Everybody loves a flaky biscuit and a melt-in-your-mouth scone straight out of the oven. Flowers add pizazz!

Fold a small handful of either fresh or dried edible flowers into your dough just before you roll it out. You can also press the fresh or dried edible flowers into the top of the dough just before baking for a more decorative touch.

PRO TIP: Think flavor as much as aesthetic here! Using especially fragrant and flavorful edible flowers like lavender and flowers of herbs like thyme and rosemary are incredible ways to add flavor to your biscuits and scones. Lemon lavender scones? Yes, please! Or whip up a quick blend of herbs de Provence with lavender flowers for your savory herbed biscuits.

4. Roll soft cheeses in dried flower petals

It’s literally as easy as it sounds! Just roll any soft cheese, dairy or non-dairy, in a confetti of either dried or fresh edible flower petals like you would to coat it in herbs or even chopped nuts. These make beautiful and colorful additions to charcuterie boards or great appetizers for your dinner parties and/or holiday celebrations.

Plus, you can color coordinate with the occasion. Edible petals that are shades of yellow, orange, and red add a special touch to fall gatherings such as Halloween parties or Thanksgiving dinners. We love our Golden Hour Flora-fetti for exactly this reason! 

Spring gatherings such as Spring Solstice or Easter Celebrations call for an abundance of color after grey winters. Try a rainbow colored blend for these occasions. Use your imagination! Anything goes!

6. Sprinkle over chocolate-dipped strawberries

This is a great one for all those moments that call for anything and everything dipped in chocolate… like every moment of every day. It doesn’t have to be strawberries; you could dip any kind of fresh or dried fruit into chocolate. Or try dipping cookies, pretzels, or brownie bites in chocolate before decorating with edible flowers.

If the melted chocolate is extra runny, wait for it to solidify a wee bit before sprinkling with either fresh or dried edible petals. This way, the petals won’t run right off with the melted chocolate, but don’t wait too long or they won’t stick at all.  

8. Make flower & herb butter

Here’s another super fancy, but ultra easy dinner party trick! It can be as easy as smearing butter, dairy or non-dairy (vegan), on a decorative serving platter and sprinkling fresh edible petals and herbs on top as in this recipe.

Another option is to let butter soften a bit at room temperature and then use a fork to stir in either fresh or dried edible flower and herbs into the softened butter. Then you can either use a piece of plastic wrap to form into a disk, roll, or block or silicone molds to shape the butter before refrigerating until solid.

And even another option is to use a spice grinder or mortar and pestle to process dried edible flowers to a finer consistency that’s almost, but non quite a powder. Then roll a log of butter in it as you would a soft cheese.

Whichever route your choose, serve your edible flower and herb butter with toasted baguette, warm biscuits, or skillet cornbread fresh out of the oven! Of if it’s spaghetti night, try spreading edible flower butter on your garlic bread!

PRO TIP: If using dried edible flowers, be sure they are processed to small pieces as they’re not as easy to bite through as the fresh edible flowers.

9. Add edible flowers to your homemade herbal tea blends

So many edible flowers are not only pretty to look at, but they also have therapeutic properties and can even add flavor to your homemade herbal tea blends. Dried roses, lavender, calendula, chamomile, and more make great herbal teas.

Plus, your flower-powered herbal tea blends make unique and customizable herbal gifts for your loved ones.

PRO TIP: Check out this guide on How to Make Your Own Nourishing Herbal Tea Blends: Step-by-Step.

10. Make edible flower ice cubes

If you love to host parties, brunches, dinners, backyard BBQs, or any other gathering of friends and family where there are beverages involved, you need these edible flower ice cubes in your life. No joke. Just pop either fresh or dried edible flowers into an ice cube tray, fill with water, and freeze.

It’s that easy and adds a big hit of awesome to your drinks whether they’re cocktails, mocktails, iced lavender lattes, lemonade, or a simple glass of sparkling water.

PRO TIP: Ice cubes trays come in all shapes and sizes these days. Make it fun! And you can even color the ice cubes with natural colorings like hibiscus or butterfly pea flower.

11. Turn your morning latte into botanical art 

Botanical lattes are all the rage. Most in-the-know coffee shops are offering all kinds of coffee alternatives such as matcha lattes, lavender and Earl Grey lattes, and rose lattes. We’ve also seen golden milk lattes and beet lattes!

You can practically turn any herbal tea or infusions into a latte by adding steamed or frothed milk. Adding a sprinkle of edible flowers can turn your morning ritual into a greater act of self-love.

Edible flowers in your latte may not be an every day thing, but when you’re in need of a little something extra, flowers always help. There’s nothing better than literally smelling the roses when you go to take a sip of your latte. And of course, you can alway sprinkle edible flowers on top of your regular espresso latte. 

PRO TIP: Invite your friends over for brunch and dazzle them with your homemade botanical lattes sprinkled with edible flowers. Try this iced lavender matcha latte or a delicious iced cacao elixir.

12. Cool down with flower-powered popsicles  

Flower-powered popsicles are basically giant ice cubes with sticks in them, right? 🙂 And they make for the most perfect hot summer afternoon treat!

Popsicles are widely customizable; you can make any kind of popsicle you could ever dream of. We’re partial to botanical ones. Try adding fresh calendula or marigold flowers to these Lemony Elderflower & Hibiscus Popsicles or check out these Edible Flower Rosé Popsicles.

PRO TIP: We love these silicone popsicle molds. They’re easy to use, easy to clean, and the popsicles come out like butter!

13. Decorate your charcuterie boards

Too busy to roll your cheese balls in edible flowers or make some flower and herb butter? A sprinkle of edible flowers goes a long way on your labor-of-love charcuterie boards. Use whole fresh flowers like nasturtiums, . Scatter dried petal confetti artfully over your board