Why buy flowers for a vase, when you could cook with them instead? Choose from chocolate-violet fondant to orange-blossom madeleines, here are 20 floral recipes that are both eye-catching and delicious to cook this Mother’s Day. Â
Duck breast with figs and burnt honey and lavender sauce
Char-grilled quail with rose and pomegranate
Poached white peaches with rose jelly and vanilla cream
Chickpea, broad bean, zucchini flower, preserved lemon and ricotta salad
Speedy yoghurt flatbread with zucchini flowers and feta
Lavender and lemon rice pudding with white peach and bitter chocolate
Almond and rose kataifi with watermelon salad and strawberry and ouzo sorbet
Zucchini flower, asparagus and fennel salad
Caramelised fig brioche with lavender honey
Cucumber, pear, flowers and musk
Violet honeycomb truffle slice
Rose cream doughnuts
Rhubarb pies and lavender ice-cream
Chocolate-violet fondant with crème fraîche ice-cream
Orange-blossom madeleines with burnt-honey crème
Yoghurt and orange-blossom puddings
Ortiz anchovy and nasturtium sandwich, montpellier butter
Strawberry shortcake with elderflower cream
Lemon pound cake with crème fraîche and violets