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Lavender & Lemon Cookie Recipe With Lemon Honey Icing

I don’t know about you but winter kinda gets me down and really brings out the depression in me. I felt this year, I would combat my doldrums by cooking with fresh herbs and flowers during these winter months. Lavender & Lemon Cookie Recipe brings my spring and summer into winter with me, to keep me company.

Well today, I was having a not so great day. If you can believe it, I got a speeding ticket just five min. after I received my new drivers licence. (a great omen) A driver’s license that took me three trips to the DMV to receive. These days, I believe it’s harder to stay as a legal resident in this country than it is to get into this country. That’s another blog though, I digress. So having a bad day, I decided to sweeten my disposition and improve my attitude by inventing these lovely yum yums! They have been neighbor and husband approved and I hope you like them too. Enjoy.

BA’s cooking tips for the Lavender Lemon Cookie Recipe~

Spend the extra bucks and use a Meyers lemon. I lightly ice my cookies, so the icing recipe will actually do two batches of cookies. You can always put the extra in a container and save for a later time or just double up on the cookie recipe and do two batches at once, your neighbors and Co-workers will love you!

Hibiscus Bliss Cake, Cooking On The Fly With B.A.

Hibiscus Bliss Cake Recipe with

Cranberry Buttercream Frosting by B.A.

The neighborhood and the household have spoken! This Hibiscus Bliss Cake Recipe, hands down, surpasses all cakes I have ever made. The texture, the moistness, it will be half gone before you are done rolling your eyes in bliss.

A side note; if you are watching your sugar intake, this cake is so amazing, you don’t need the icing. The icing will blow your mind but the cake can stand on its own, it is that amazing. Cranberry Recipe , Cooking On The Fly With B.A.

The more important side note is; you will need my family cranberry sauce recipe for the frosting. And… I have not posted it yet. OOPS, sorry about that. Honestly, even if I did have it posted, you would be hard pressed to find cranberries this time of year (August). The only reason I have it made is, every year I freeze a batch or two. I have a fix though! All you have to do is take a favorite marmalade and use it in its place. The cranberry recipe will be up very soon.

What you will need for the Hibiscus Bliss Cake ( frosting instructions will come later)

2 cups of sugar (I use turbinado)
1 1/2 teaspoons of baking soda
2 cups of all purpose flour
1 teaspoon of salt
2 teaspoons of crushed dried hibiscus flowers
2 teaspoons of baking powder
1 cup of milk
1/2 cup of canola oil
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
1 cup of tea (I used a cranberry based tea. Pick something in the family of… NOT peppermint. You get the idea.

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