Making food and snacks with dandelion flower recipes is a fun way to celebrate spring and kids will love participating in the making and eating of these tasty treats.
Our family loves learning about more useful wild edible plants and dandelion flowers are plentiful in the spring. I love including our whole family in learning about useful herbal flowers. As we homeschool and love great books and resources, adding herbalism into our kids education brings both wellness and happiness.
And for just us adults, we’ve made some dandelion wine recipes that are wonderful.
We’ve really enjoyed the Herb Fairies Books by Learning Herbs.
These books are perfect for teaching kids about herbs with stories about fairies.
Enjoy this recipe from Herb Fairies by LearningHerbs (reprinted with permission)
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- 1 stick butter
- 1/2 cup honey
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 cup regular oats
- 1/2 cup freshly picked dandelion flowers (Taraxacum officinale)
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- Preheat oven to 375°F. Melt butter on low heat. Set aside to cool slightly.
- Remove all of the green stems and bracts from the dandelion flowers; set aside.
- Mix together the dry ingredients in a medium bowl, set aside.
- Mix the dandelion flowers into the honey and butter.
- Add the eggs and vanilla and stir well.
- Add the wet mixture to the dry mixture and stir well.
- Place by the tablespoonful onto greased cookie sheets.
- Bake for 12 minutes or until golden brown on the edges.
Have you checked out the Herb Fairies series?
Every spring they open up registration for kids and it’s super fun!
What’s the secret to empowering your kids to use herbs?
You might think it’s about the medicine, but it’s really about the FUN you have creating herbal experiences together… as a family.
In this free webinar, Herb Fairies & Wildcraft creator Kimberly Gallagher shares exactly how she and John created their family’s herbal story.
What started with fun family adventures resulted in teenagers that feel empowered to use herbs for their everyday health.
Kimberly will share…
- Fun recipes like Chickweed pesto, Violet salad, Chamomile fruit salad & Dandelion cookies
- A Plantain poultice
- Rose hip honey for vitamin C
- Delicious Lemon balm popsicles
- Chai tea kids love
- Elderberry syrup for colds & flu
- REAL Marshmallow root marshmallows!
Kimberly will give you a beautiful PDF of all the recipes she covers, and also do an herbal Q&A after the class.
I’m curious. The 1/2 cup of dandelion flowers – is that measuring before removing stems and bracts? Any idea about how many flowers you have to pick? We’ve got lots growing in our yard (we don’t spray) and I think I’m going to give this recipe a try.
That’s after you’ve picked off the petals from the stem. I’m not sure exactly how many you would need (sorry!) our kids enjoy picking off the petals and we also made dandelion oil to make salve with the one big harvest.
Are you soaking the flowers in salt water to remove bugs? we take the flowers soak in salt water dry coat with egg and cornmeal then saute in coconut oil taste like stuffed mushrooms yummy
I haven’t tried that technique, thank you for sharing! Ours didn’t have too many bugs, but I’ve seen those tiny black ones previous years. I’ve been wanting to try dandelion fritters, sounds great 🙂
I feel dandys are such lovely yellow blossoms, they would be great…& fun to eat ! Yellow is the color of the sun & intelligence. The flower’s brightness can make you feel spunky on a dreary day. Hail to the wonderful dandelion.