Sugar! (oh, and lavender bread...)

So the handsome lavender holder above is my new kitten Sugar....he's the sweetest thing around. Sugar spends his days jumping on every surface in my apartment, carrying around a green fuzzy mouse, and trying to nurse my 3 year old male cat. Sugar is cute, but oh so dumb.

Anyway, my dried lavender was making eyes at me the other night, so I decided to make a little lavender bread for my co-workers. I found a super easy recipe, and followed it pretty much word for word. You really can't mess up a basic tea bread. It was a little on the dry side, but a thin layer of yogurt butter fixed it up nicely.

Lavender Birthday Cookies

I recently celebrated my birthday and received a gift of dried lavender from one of my lovely ladies. I’ve wanted to get my hands on this beautifully delicious flower for a while now and spent hours searching for my first lavender recipe. I decided on a basic sugar cookie recipe that called for lemon juice – yum. Several things were learned during this process: 1) baking with lavender makes your apartment smell like heaven (like, an expansive field of wildflowers heaven with weeping willows and puppies), 2) you don’t need a rolling pin to make sugar cookies, and 3) I LOVE LAVENDER.