Homemade Candied Violets Recipe (2024)

Candied Violets Recipe is perfect for a Spring project with children. They can be used to decorate cakes, cupcakes and any type of pudding. You can use the violets from your own garden if you don't use any chemical treatment.

What is the violets festival?

On the French Riviera, Spring is announced in March when violets start blossoming all over the gardens.

At the renowned Violets Festival in Tourettes-sur-Loup you can eat them in different ways: ice cream, jam, jelly, candy.Tourettes-sur-Loup is just across the valley from our garden and the seeds must have spread naturally.

You can find violets everywhere!

This year my son Francesco decided to have our own Violet Festival in our garden.So he started a treasure hunt searching around the garden to find as many as he could.

I must say he was successful, having found enough to get a project going: 2 oz -50 gr of violets with a nice intense perfume.We do not use any chemical treatment in our garden, so our violets are safe to eat.

Francesco loves sweets, so he decided to make candied violets.

The petals are very delicate and a hot caramel would ruin the beauty of the flower.So violets cannot be caramelized.

As I wanted to keep them intact for decorating cakes, I decided to use a method that would preserve them, and here is the recipe.

For 2 oz - 50gr of violets we used:

• 1 egg white
• caster sugar

I did not use icing sugar as I wanted a nice crystal effect.

1. Picked the flowers with long stems so you can hold them without damaging them.
2. Prepared a bowl full of freshwater and rinsed the flowers one by one.
3. Placed them on a cloth to dry, not under the direct sun, but on the kitchen counter
4. Slightly whisk the egg white and with a brush, spread the egg white inside and outside the flower
5. Lay them on a parchment paper and removed the stems.
6. Sprinkle the flowers with castor sugar and let them dry out in a warm and dark place for a couple of days.
7. Once dried store them in an airtight container covering them with sugar.

How to use candied violets

Having such a beautiful color and scent, I decided to use them to decorate a Swiss Roll Sponge. To contrast the color as well as the flavor, I filled it with buttercream and sprinkled with pistachios. You can also use them to decorate the Almond Meringue and Butter Cream Cake.

Violet edible gifts

You can make some nice edible gifts with your candied violet, although they should be used within the week.

Another edible gift you can make with violets is homemade violet liqueur, a perfect paring with candied violets.

Variation

Here are more candied edible flowers you can make:

1. Nasturtium Capucines: papery taste
2. Begonia: bitter taste
3. Agastache: anise taste
4. Tulbaghia: garlicky taste

Here more recipes with edible flowers:

• Acacia fritters
• Fried zucchini flowers

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