Infused Honey Is Great For All Your Honey Uses
People will ask me for ideas of different ways to use our infused honeys. Each infusion has a very distinct flavor profile that compliments your everyday honey uses like tea, coffee, pancakes or as a sweetener for your breakfast cereal. They also have a lot to offer in a more creative recipe like a frosting, cake, baked good, savory sauces or marinades.
How We Make Our Infused Honey
We infuse our virgin clover honey at a low temperature using freshly ground organic herbs and spices. This means it is packed with the full and wholesome flavor or real food. We never use extracts or flavorings, only the real deal blended and imbued in just the right amount with our decadent buttery smooth and creamy virgin clover super raw honey. We infuse the honey in a slow and low infusion process that takes a number of days; When we say slow food it's definitely true. We gently warm the honey in the infusion process keeping it within the natural temperatures of the beehive so the honey stays raw and maintains its naturally occurring benefits. We add just the right amount of herbs and spices to balance them with the sweetness of the honey while making sure it is potent enough that you truly taste it when added to drinks and dishes. As an ingredient, it certainly imparts great flavor based on whichever infusion you are using, you won't be guessing which honey you're tasting.
So What Are The Best Ways To Enjoy Infused Honey
Our infused honeys can be used like any other honey, but consider the flavor profile of the ingredients to help you pair different infusions with particular drinks or dishes. Sweetening your tea or coffee with infused honeys can add a special element that uplifts and brings your drink to a new level with a more complex and rich flavor. Our Cardamom Infused Honey is really nice in coffee, it brings spicy piney notes that blend beautifully with the richness of coffee from the more nutty, chocolate notes to a fruity coffee blend. The Turmeric Ginger Infused Honey pairs well with most herbal tea blends and black teas as it brings a hint of spice for digestion and that gentle earthy taste with the beneficial properties of anti-inflammatory turmeric root. Lavender Infused Honey adds a delicious floral note to many herbal tea blends as well as black tea blends, earl grey is a nice tea to pair with our lavender honey. There are many options for pairing these infusions with your favorite drinks and foods.
Using Our 12 Infused Honeys To Sweeten Your Everyday
There are so many options for how you enjoy using these honeys, it is honey after all, but the infusions are something different and perhaps new; sometimes it is nice to get tips and ideas to jumpstart our creativity and to stimulate our taste buds.
Drinks: Tea, Coffee, Mixed Drinks & More
Here are some favorite ways to use each of our infused honeys to sweeten and bring great flavor to popular drinks.
Floral & Leafy Herbal Teas To Pair With Herbal Honey:
Herbal teas with ingredients like peppermint leaf, tulsi, chamomile, nettle, raspberry leaf, red clover, ginger, lavender, lemon grass, hibiscus pair beautifully with these infusions:
- Ginger Honey
- Lavender Honey
- Butterfly Pea Flower Honey
- Turmeric Ginger Honey
- Cinnamon Honey
- Candy Cap Mushroom Honey
- Rose Honey
Darker, Spicier & More Robust Herbal Teas To Pair With Infused Honey:
When it comes to the darker herbal teas like rooibos, ginger, nettle, dandelion root, chicory root, chai/masala, toasted and roasted herbal blends, the more robust, spicy and rich infusions really shine.
- Chai Spice Honey
- Holiday Spice Honey
- Cardamom Honey
- Cinnamon Honey
- Ginger Honey
- Turmeric Ginger Honey
- Candy Cap Mushroom Honey
- Pumpkin Spice Honey
- Smoked Hot Pepper Honey
Hot Chocolate Paired With Infused Honey:
In a category all by itself, hot cocoa is a rich and delicious drink that can certainly be enhanced with infused honey! I really enjoy adding our more spicy and complex blends to hot chocolate. Here are top infused honeys to add to hot cocoa:
- Smoked Hot Pepper Honey (for a Mexican hot chocolate flavor)
- Cardamom Honey
- Chai Spice Honey
- Cinnamon Honey
Coffee Drinks Paired with Infused Honey:
Coffee drinks from Latte's to drip coffee, cold press coffee, french press coffee or a bialetti style brew all go very well with infused honey. Some honeys can impart a flavor to coffee that certain drinkers don't enjoy, most people find that our virgin clover honey, which is the base for our infused honey, is a great honey for coffee with its light notes of sunshine and vanilla. The light tasting profile of vanilla, sunshine and honeycomb from the virgin clover paired with the herbs and spices from our infused honeys make a delicious addition to coffee drinks. Here are our top infusions to pair with coffee:
- Cardamom Honey
- Chai Spice Honey
- Cinnamon Honey
- Smoked Hot Pepper Honey
- Holiday Spice Honey
- Pumpkin Spice Honey
- Candy Cap Mushroom Honey
Mocktails & Cocktails With Infused Honey:
Using infused honeys to sweeten and add flavor to your mocktails and cocktails is a charming, kind of old-fashion way to bring your drinks to a new and novel level. Try our Smoked Hot Pepper Honey in margaritas! Add striking color with our blue Butterfly Pea Flower Honey in your mixed drinks. There are many creative, simple, fun and novel ways to integrate these into mixed drinks for a delicious, charming and novel drink. Some of our top recommendations are:
- Butterfly Pea Flower Honey
- Turmeric Ginger Honey
- Rose Honey
- Lavender Honey
- Ginger Honey
- Smoked Hot Pepper Honey
- Cinnamon Honey
- Cardamom Honey
Infused Honey with Your Meal or Snack
Pastries & Baked Goods: Toast, English Muffins, Pancakes, Waffles, Biscuits, Cakes, Pies, Cookies & More.
Honey and baked goods are like kindred spirits, they compliment one-another so perfectly, there is no denying that the relationship is meant-to-be. Infused honeys bring baked goods to a whole new level of perfection. I love using our infused honeys for all kinds of baked goods from simply spreading them on toast, over pancakes to adding as an ingredient for sweetening pies, cookies or cakes. They are wonderful for mixing with butter as a honey butter spread or using in frosting to sweeten and flavor a simple cream cheese frosting; each infusion brings so much flavor along with the beautiful sweetness of real raw honey. Try added you infusion of choice to fresh whipped cream in the very end of whipping! Infused honeys add vibrant flavors and complexity to many recipes from the simple to the complex.
As a Simple Spread Over Baked Goods:
For spreading over toast, english muffins, muffins, pancakes, waffles biscuits or bagels, infused honey will add so much more flavor and depth to the simple combination. For this, any infusion is delicious and completely up to your taste buds. Our complete line of infused honeys are:
- Cardamom Infused Honey
- Cinnamon Infused Honey
- Ginger Infused Honey
- Chai Spice Infused Honey
- Turmeric Ginger Infused Honey
- Candy Cap Mushroom Infused Honey (Maple Syrup Mushroom)
- Rose Infused Honey
- Lavender Infused Honey
- Holiday Spice Infused Honey
- Butterfly Pea Flower Infused Honey
- Pumpkin Spice Infused Honey
- Smoked Hot Pepper Infused Honey
Baked Desserts with Infused Honey:
Incorporating infused honey where a recipe calls for honey will add so much flavor and depth to your dessert. We use the real herbs and spices in our infusions which we blend the flavors with the honey over a number of days using our specialized slow-low infusion process until all the ingredients become one taste. This transforms their flavor into sometime new as the infusion process creates a melding of flavor while waking up the tasting profiles through the gentle warming process. Adding these as ingredients to your baking can bring your recipe to a new place with greater flavor and richness.
Here are some recommended combinations for using infused honeys as ingredients in baked goods where honey can be used (Tip: Find Recipes By Searching for Your Recipe & Adding "With Honey"):
Coffee Cake with Cardamom Infused Honey
Brownies or Chocolate Cake with Smoked Hot Pepper Infused Honey
Vanilla Cake with Lavender Infused Honey
Pumpkin Pie with Pumpkin Spice Infused Honey
Chocolate Chip Cookies with Candy Cap Mushroom Infused Honey
Oatmeal Cookies with Chai Spice Infused Honey
Honey Cakes to taste with ANY of our Naturally Infused Honeys
Honey Vanilla Pound Cake with Butterfly Pea Flower Infused Honey
Cheese Cake with Rose Infused Honey
Honey Muffins with Turmeric Ginger Infused Honey
Apple Honey Cake with Cinnamon Infused Honey
Honey Cookies with Ginger Infused Honey
Infused Honeys in Frosting, Whipped Cream & Butter Spreads:
Butterboards have become a fun way to create an appetizer spread, infused honeys make really fun honey butter spreads. Enjoy the unique flavors of the infusion from classic cinnamon to spicy ginger, maple candy cap mushroom, decadent rose to complex holiday spice. They are a delicious ingredient and a simple to add while bringing in so much flavor and novelty.
Delicious Cream Cheese Frosting Paired with Some Favorite Infused Honeys:
Cream cheese frosting is so easy, just whip Infused Honey into your cream cheese to taste! Here some combinations we enjoy:
- Rose Honey cream cheese frosting over chocolate cake
- Turmeric Ginger Honey cream cheese frosting over carrot cake
- Smoked Hot Pepper Honey cream cheese frosting over chocolate cake
- Candy Cap Mushroom Honey (maple syrup mushroom) cream cheese frosting over slices of coffee cake
Get Creative
There are many ways to enjoy our infused honeys. From your simple daily beverage, breakfast and snacks to an easy appetizer spread or baked goods made more special with creamy honey imbued to perfection with real herbs and spices, infused honey can bring that simple, special touch that adds that perfect touch to elevate your enjoyment.
View our full collection of Infused Honeys here.
