Celebrate the spring with this Swedish Midsummer inspired dried flower cookie recipe!
Midsummer, or Midsommar, is one of the most celebrated holidays in Sweden! It usually involves a putting flowers in your hair, dancing and singing to folk songs, eating pickled herring and schnapps! I saw this idea on Pinterest a few months ago and have been dying to try it out, and there seemed like no better occasion that for my first Swedish Midsummer celebration!
Choosing the flowers
The biscuits themselves are just from a basic sugar cookie recipe, decorated with flowers, leaves and petals we found in the garden! Some of the most common flowers we used were any type of rose, clover and grass as these are definitely all edible! We also used dandelions, daisies and pansies! This website has a really great list of edible flowers if you want to pick them yourself! You can also buy edible flowers at a lot of grocery stores and nurseries.
I recommend either picking your flowers after making the cake mix, or placing them in the fridge as soon as you can, otherwise they start to wilt!
The Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Butter
- 1 Cup Granulated Sugar
- 1 Egg
- 1 Tsp Vanilla
- 3 Cups All Purpose Flour
- 2 Tsp Baking Powder
Method
- Mix together the butter, sugar and egg until it becomes light and fluffy.
- Add in the vanilla and baking soda stir it in.
- Slowly add in the flour, cup by cup, until the mixture is smooth.
- Roll the mixture out until it is about 5mm thick.
- Cut out your shapes.
- Decorate with the flower petals. Keep in mid that they do shrink in the oven and smaller petals can almost disappear.
- 7. Bake at 140 degrees for 20 minutes.
- 8. Leave to cool on the pan for 5 minutes before moving to a cooling tray.