Candied Edible Flowers
2009 April 13
Today was a very wet and chilly day. We really needed a pick-up and needed to do something springy. We went outside for a little fresh air and noticed our wild violets were in bloom. We picked some to candy.
We also picked Johnny Jump Ups, pansies and geraniums.
Place the flowers on a sheet of parchment paper until they are dry (about an hour). Place the flowers in a container and put in the refrigerator until ready for use.
To candy your petals you need egg whites (the freshest you can get), fine sugar, edible flowers, parchment paper and paint brushes.
Dip the paint brush in the egg white and coat the flowers.
Dip the flowers in the sugar until they are evenly coated.
Place the flowers on a sheet of parchment paper until they are dry (about an hour). Place the flowers in a container and put in the refrigerator until ready for use.
Fauna likes the candied geraniums the best.
Araina likes the violets.
Make sure you have positively identified the flowers before eating them, many flowers are not meant to be consumed. Also, just because a flower petal is edible, the leaves or roots may not be. For a great resource and list of edible flowers visit What’s Cooking America.
these are so pretty!
Yum!!! Love your blog. Click on over to see what the kids and I made with our wildflowers/weeds (in our family a weed is just a plant growing where you don’t want it)–we made dandelion fritters and fairy salad. clearly, next we’ll need to make candied violets!
http://doublevee-doublevee.blogspot.com/2009/04/fairy-tea.html
Well, I was doing the same thing – on the opposite sides of the world – simultaneously!
How fun!
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Thanks for the memories! My daughter and her friend made and ate candied violets years ago. It was a lovely day.
Mmmmmm.
I may have mentioned it a few hundred times before, but I LOVE your blog!!!
This looks like fun!
This activity is for me! I can see these adorning the top of my white chocolate/blueberry three layer cake!!
Lovely idea
Looks beautiful and delicious! This is another activity that my girls will love…
Oh my gosh! This is such a fabulous idea…I can’t wait to try this with my girls!!!
That is great, Lisa! I love that your girls are adventurous.
I’m not sure mine would… but I would. oh, J said she would. Prime said he would have the sugar.
So when does adult nature camp start? Sign me up!
As a child I always loved having salad at my step moms as she would always top with Borage flowers. I’ve never tried to candy flowers but this looks like another fun idea!
What a fascinating idea.
They look so pretty! We eat a lot of flowers in our summer salads! So yummy!
I am so impressed at your knowledge of flowers (and mushrooms). I have no clue about any of it. I can tell a rose from a daisy, but that’s about it…well, maybe I’m not that bad, but close.
Perhaps Princess will develop an interest in learning about flowers and I can learn something as well.
Beautiful Spring sweetness….so pretty and delicious!
Wow! You and your girls are always doing amazing things!
You have so many fantastic ideas! Thanks for this one, and the link to the list of edible flowers. Your candied edible flowers are so pretty!
Stephanie, told ya that we were on the same wavelength!
I have official learned something new today! Thank you for enlightening me!
Thanks and lol Peggy. We are huge wild edible fans…I am ALWAYS testing my girls about the plants. Fauna has gotten really good about identifying the edibles and non-edibles; I even trust her on her own now. This has scared some people but has also fascinated others.
You know what is so incredibly awesome about you? That you have one post on eating mushrooms followed by one on eating flowers, and you casually mention that one should responsibly take these things on. I love that quote about eating mushrooms once.
Me? I am all hemming and hawing on letting my girls poke themselves with a needle! You are the best ever!
Hey!
We were just talking the other day about candying violets!
Yay!!