How to Make Stunning Flower Ice Cubes

How to make flower ice cubes also known as: what to do when the flowers are taking over.

Flower ice cubes make even a glass of water feel more festive.

When your garden is throwing a full-blown floral rave and you’re running out of vases, it’s time to make flower ice cubes.

These edible blooms make even plain water feel fancy and are perfect for brunches, cocktails, or impressing your houseplants.

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Edible Floral Ice Cubes

You guys, the nasturtiums are winning.

And that's how this post was born.

I have nasturtiums taking over more than half of my garden and so I decided to put some of them in ice cubes.

Incidentally, the proper name for nasturtiums is Tropaeolum minor, which means to "twine."

Reflecting on this past summer, it seems all I've done is work and fill mason jars full of nasturtiums.

I've snipped nasturtium after nasturtium after nasturtium since they started blooming in July.

I've given everyone I know bouquets.

Twice.

And they still keep producing more and more blooms.

These flowers are like the summer house guests who never leave.

I have visions of the slim hipped sisters exiting the garden gate and marching down the lawn and into my house.

Grabbing the remote and settling into the sofa, climbing into my bed, turning on the shower, digging through my fridge for salad greens.

Speaking of salad greens, nasturtiums are a beautiful pop of color for a salad but that's a post for another day.

Today is all about ice cubes.

What You Need to Make Flower Ice Cubes

• Ice Cube Trays (My favorite tray)
• Garden snips or kitchen shears for cutting off the flower stems
• Distilled Water (Boiled twice and cooled before using, approximately three cups)
• Edible flowers (pansies or roses are a good choice if you don't have nasturtiums)
• Freezer
• Time

The first thing you're going to do before you've even snipped off your blossoms is boil a couple cups of distilled water and let it cool. Then boil it again and let cool. Finally, fill your ice cube tray just a quarter of the way full and put it in the freezer.

By quarter way full I'm talking about each cavity.

For the two-inch molds I used, that meant putting a tablespoon of distilled water in each cavity to start.

Then place the tray in the freezer for about an hour.

Remove from freezer then place a blossom upside down into each cavity.

Add another tablespoon of water over each blossom to help the flowers freeze to your base layer.

Then freeze for about an hour.

Once the flowers have frozen to the base ice cubes, finish topping off each cavity with water and put back into the freezer for a few hours or until completely solid.

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You can also use herbs like mint or lavender or rosemary to make edible ice cubes.

I think floral ice cubes would be perfect in Lemon Drop Martinis.

They would also be good in Blood Orange Martinis.

Nasturtiums have many different meanings depending on the era.