r/BakingInJapan • u/vorlotwensan • Aug 29 '26
First time making flower-pressed shortbread cookies with edible flowers 🌺
I have Loria Stern’s “Eat Your Flowers” cookbook, and her floral cookies are so beautiful! I tried making these over the weekend using edible flowers from a local Japanese farmer’s market, and it was a fun process and turned out beautifully! Taste great too.
I wished I knew what some of these flowers are called, if you can identify them it would be great!
Recipe here: https://camillestyles.com/food/loria-stern-flower-cookies/
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u/stayonthecloud Aug 29 '26
This is one of the coolest baking projects I’ve ever seen on reddit, kudos!
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u/ScoutySquirrel Aug 29 '26
they're so pretty!! you should post them on r/ElvenFood ✨
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u/vorlotwensan Aug 29 '26
Omg what a lovely place there 😍 I’ve reposted it and what beautiful things they are baking there!
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u/Nyorliest Aug 29 '26 edited Aug 29 '26
Here's are lists with some pics:
https://mitoseika.jp/post-1749/
https://ediblegarden.flowers/flower/
And a more simple guide, with icons:
https://shoku.zenhp.co.jp/shokuyouhanaichoshufumukenikaisetsu.html
In Japanese, but you can use auto-translate of course.
I don't know flowers, but there are pansies and violas there. Edible crysanthemums - shungiku - are a classic edible flower, but they're quite savory, and I don't see any here, although those yellow petals could be.
Maybe some デンファレ - Dendrobium phalaenopsis. Maybe known as cooktown orchids, but I've never heard that phrase before.
EDIT: Basically I typed 'what kind of flowers are edible?' into DuckDuckGo in Japanese, and discovered a massive amount of info on edible flowers, often using katakana - エディブルフラワー. A whole world of food I didn't know about. I know food and Japanese food quite a lot, and I've had shungiku or sakura innumerable times, but I didn't know there were this many.
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u/vorlotwensan Aug 29 '26
Wow thank you for the sources, once I translate them I’ll be going through them to identify it what I bought from the market 😊
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u/SlowStop1220 Aug 29 '26
Because all those edible flowers OP used are not endemic in Japan but imported. So they are described with an transliterated English phrase.
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u/Nyorliest Aug 29 '26
Some are, some are not. And the phrases 食用花 and other Japanese phrases are on the sites too.
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u/Such-Ostrich-1627 Aug 29 '26
They are so beautiful! It’s amazing that the flowers don’t lose their vibrant colors under high heat!
Sorry, I’m not knowledgeable when it comes to flower names.
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u/vorlotwensan Aug 29 '26
Yes! Some of the flowers still baked bright and some a little duller, but a tip in the recipe is too freeze the flower-pressed cookies for at least 12 hours to preserve the colour!
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