How to Make Sugar Cubes with Lavender

Last Updated on August 26, 2025 by becky

Learn how to make sugar cubes with just a silicone mold, a bag of sugar, some water, and a few spoonfuls of culinary dried lavender. The best lavender sugar recipe for sweetening coffee and tea!

What Inspired These Homemade Lavender Sugar Cubes?

I love incorporating lavender in all kinds of recipes, from beverages like lavender lemonade and lavender iced coffee, to lavender cookies, to homemade lavender simple syrup. My latest creation? Lavender sugar cubes!

This easy lavender sugar cube recipe contains just three ingredients (granulated sugar,  dried lavender, and water) and requires less than 20 minutes of active prep time. You can these homemade cubes for baking, sweetening beverages, and more. They’re also great for gifting.

How to Make Sugar Cubes

To make these homemade sugar cubes, start by grinding dried lavender buds into a fine powder and mixing them with granulated sugar and a small amount of water. You’ll know the mixture is ready to mold when it resembles damp sand, and hold its shape when squeezed.

Next, firmly press the damp, lavender-infused sugar into a square silicone candy mold, then use a bench scraper to remove any excess. Allow the molded sugar to dry overnight. Once dry to the touch, pop the sugar cubes out of the mold, and they should look a little something like this:

Special Equipment for Making Lavender Sugar Cubes

To make your own sugar cubes, you’ll need a couple of special tools:

Food Processor
To grind the culinary dried lavender, I recommend a food processor or a standard coffee grinder. It’s important to process the buds into a very fine powder before mixing them with the granulated sugar. Do not put whole lavender buds directly into the sugar—they’re too big to dissolve, and will instead float awkwardly to the top of your cup of coffee or tea!

Silicone Mold
To mold the sugar into cubes, you’ll need a silicone mold. I used this square silicone candy mold. It has 126 cavities, and each cavity measures about 1/2 inch square.

You can use a mold with slightly bigger or smaller cavities (a silicone ice cube mold designed for making small cubes would work well) or opt for another shape, like circles or hearts, instead. Keep in mind that the recipe yield will vary depending on the cavity size and depth of the mold you’ve chosen.

Bench Scraper 
A bench scraper works nicely for removing excess sugar from the top of the mold. For this recipe, a plastic (not metal) bench scraper is the best choice. (And once you have one, keep it handy! I love my bench scraper for everything from making bread and pizza dough to slicing ropes of homemade candy corn.)

Working with Culinary Dried Lavender

To flavor my sugar cubes, I’ve added ground culinary dried lavender.

When purchasing dried lavender flowers, look for a product clearly labelled as edible, food-safe, or culinary grade. Do not use dried flowers intended for potpourri or home decor.

Culinary dried lavender often comes in large quantities, like the massive bag in the photo above! Since you’ll have plenty of extra, I suggest making my lavender simple syrup or a batch of cutout lavender sugar cookies.

You can also add fragrant dried lavender to simmer pots, like my rainbow simmer pot or spring simmer pot recipes.

Ways to Use Homemade Sugar Cubes

Use homemade lavender sugar cubes to sweeten hot beverages like coffee or tea, or add them to cocktails—muddle the sugar into a lavender gin fizz, or replace the granulated sugar in a classic old fashioned.

These sugar cubes will work for sweetening cold drinks (lavender lemonade, lavender coffee, iced tea, or sparkling water), too. They will dissolve, just not quite as as quickly as they do in hot beverages, so be patient!

Some other ideas? Grind the cubes into a powdery lavender sugar, and use it as a replacement for regular sugar in baking projects. Place the cubes in pretty decorative jars or lavender teacups, and display on the tables at an afternoon tea party, bridal shower, or baby shower.

For gifting, I like to arrange the cubes in a decorative jar, or in a cello bag placed inside a purple mug, along with good-quality tea bags or a few packets of instant coffee.

Make-Ahead and Storage Suggestions

You can store homemade sugar cubes in a sealed glass jar or other airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 year, and possibly even longer than that.

Other lavender recipes you might enjoy:

Lavender Sugar Cookies
Spring Simmer Pot with Lavender
Lavender Lemon Latte Cookies
Lavender Simple Syrup
Lavender Coffee
Lavender Ice Cream

And if you do make these, or any of my recipes, don’t forget to tag me @bastecutfold or use the hashtag #bastecutfold on Instagram. I always love to see what you’re making!

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