2020 Floral Flavors are the Hot Trend!

Florals are making an impact in many events and weddings for 2020! So many versatile ways to use flowers in food whether it is uses as fancy floral ice cubes, sprinkled in salads, or salad dressings, frosting and decorating your cake with lavender frostings, drizzling cheese with lavender honey and desserts, flavoring cocktails or used as a skewer it is adding the dramatic, romantic effect that so many are going for in their menu planning.

Lavender is the floral favorite when it comes to elevating the romance and flavor in whatever you choose to put it in.

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Hot this season are meat cutting stations, in addition to dips, bread, crackers, cheeses and chutneys, “design your own skewers,”  think charcuterie plate across a whole table. Breakfast weddings are becoming popular with waffle or pancake bars,  or later evening weddings with ice cream bars, juice and smoothie bars and cocktail style entertaining! Don't forget to adorn with props and flowers to bring it all in together.

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Trending cocktails are favoring Lavender Simple Syrup mixed into your gin, added to your champagne or made into a multi ingredient cocktails. Not only in the drink but as a lavender garnish to add the wow factor to make a sophisticated cocktail both in flavor and appearance. 

Try these inspired lavender cocktails that we've worked up to make your party a success!
Lavender Collins
1  1/2 oz. Gin
1 oz. lemon juice
1/2 oz. Lavender Simple Syrup
Sparkling Water
Lemon wheel and Lavender Cocktail Pick for garnish

Lavender Champagne
6 oz Champagne or Prosecco
2 tsp Lavender Simple Syrup
Garnish with Lavender Cocktail Picks!

Lavender Simple Syrup

Lavender Lemonade Mix

Lavender popular as a floral beverage! We have a Lavender Lemonade party pack mix size that can make 100 (4oz) size cups. We like to add a seltzer water in place of the water and add a shot of vodka or gin for a quick cocktail. Don't forget to add the Lavender Cocktail Picks to complete your cocktail.
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Soda Lavender Lemonade
Lavender Lemonade Mix
1 cup seltzer water

Champagne punch
8 cups Lavender Lemonade prepared
1 bottle champagne

Dirty Lemonade
4oz vodka or Gin
8 oz prepared Lavender Lemonade
2oz club soda

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Lavender Extract

Culinary Lavender

Lavender is being used not only in cakes, but as lavender cream frostings or fillings. Decorated on the outside of the cake makes a simple minimalistic but sophisticated impact. Bakeries are doing this by adding lavender extract, and Culinary Lavender. If your baker needs some guidelines we have that here.