Candied Flowers

It’s not difficult to candy blossoms, and they will have much more taste and be even prettier than those you can buy. They can be used whole to garnish cakes and ice creams, or finely chopped and sprinkled over various desserts or sweetmeats. Rose petals and violets are most commonly seen in sugared form, but there’s no reason you couldn’t try coating other edible blooms with sugar, such as orange or lemon blossoms, borage, lilacs, and jasmine, to name but a few. Not all flowers are edible,