Lavender Vanilla Goat Cheese Spread

This Lavender Vanilla Goat Cheese Spread is a silky and smooth dessert-type spread recipe. The tangy goat cheese is combined with real vanilla seeds, lavender, honey, and lemon for a luxurious experience.

Hello, folks! How are you doing? I hope you all had a great weekend and are now enjoying a new week. How is your summer going? Oh well, what is left of the summer?

For me, the past 6 weeks had been quite intense as we had my sister visiting us (I had not seen her in person in years). So it was a great time, although a bit exhausting, as we did a ton of travelling…not to mentioned that I still worked 2-3 days a week and tried to keep my recipes coming up. My apologies to my fellow food bloggers for neglecting their blogs; I’ve been catching up lately.

Anyway, I am now back to my regular blogging. And I am excited to share as many summer recipes as possible with you. Yeah, although you can already see seasonal fall recipes on the Internet and pumpkin spice lattes, I am not ready. Not at least for another two weeks! So without further ado, let’s dive into another summer recipe with lavender.

Lavender Vanilla Goat Cheese Spread

If you like sweet pairings with cheese, then you should like this goat cheese spread with lavender and vanilla. Yes, it’s a rather dessert-type of spread that you can enjoy for snacking, as an appetizer, or breakfast (that’s definitely healthier than Nutella!). I think it could even work as an aperitivo with some crackers and wine, or as a part of a charcuterie or cheese board.

The addition of luxurious and warming vanilla seeds works so well with goat cheese and offsets its earthy and tangy taste, as well as the botanical aroma of lavender. Needless to say, honey and lemon also pair well with these ingredients.

Ingredients You Will Need for Goat Cheese Spread with Lavender and Vanilla

To make this recipe, you will need only several simple ingredients.

• Soft and creamy Goat’s cheese – you will need a 250- or 300-gram log. Be sure to remove it from the fridge in advance for easy mixing.
• Dried lavender buds – minced or rubbed with your fingers. As a rule of thumb, it’s better to add less than more; otherwise, your recipe could have a perfume, soapy aroma. Be sure to use culinary-grade lavender. You can use fresh lavender buds from your garden, but be sure it’s a variety suitable for cooking; culinary lavender tends to have a mild aroma, less perfume-forward.
• Vanilla bean – for a luxuriously warm aroma. While real vanilla beans are quite expensive, you will only need a small piece. If vanilla bean is not available, you can add about 1/2 teaspoon of real vanilla extract.
• Honey – works as a sweetener, adds flavour, and also binds all ingredients together.
• Lemon zest – for added freshness. Feel free to add a little lemon juice, too.

Try More Sweet Goat Cheese Spreads

Be sure to check more similar recipes made with goat cheese:

• White Chocolate Lavender Goat Cheese Spread
• Lavender Goat Cheese Spread (With Honey and Peach Jam)
• Rainbow Goat Cheese Spread Havoc In The Kitchen (For PRIDE Month!)
• Rose Jam Goat Cheese (With Rose Petal Jam)

I hope you like this Lavender Vanilla Goat Cheese Spread, and you will try it. If you try it, please let me know in the comment section of this post below, send me an Instagram message, or share your photos by adding the hashtag #havocinthekitchen.

Cheers!

Lavender Vanilla Goat Cheese Spread

Recipe by Ben | Havocinthekitchen

This Lavender Vanilla Goat Cheese Spread with real vanilla seeds, honey, and lemon is a silky and smooth dessert-type spread recipe.

Course: Sweet Spreads and PreservesDifficulty: Easy

5.0 from 2 votes

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Servings

8-12

servings

Prep time

35

minutes

Cooking time

40

minutes

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Ingredients

• 250-300 g soft plain goat’s cheese

• 1/4 medium-large (7- to 9-inch bean) vanilla bean, seeds scrapped (~1/8 tsp.)
  or use 1/2 tsp. real vanilla extract
  See Notes

• a small pinch (about 1/4 tsp. for a subtle aroma to 1/2 tsp. for a more pronounced aroma) dried lavender,
  minced or rubbed

• 2 tbsp. (40 g) honey

• 1 tsp. lemon zest, plus more for serving

Directions

• Remove the goat cheese from the fridge 30 minutes prior to making this recipe for easier blending.
• In a small bowl, combine the goat cheese, honey, vanilla seeds, minced lavender buds, and lemon zest.
• Using a regular or an immersion blender (I find the latter to be more convenient for this recipe), pulse until the desired consistency, making sure to stop and scrape the bowl sides as needed.) Try and adjust the flavour by adding more lavender or honey.
• Transfer the spread to a container and enjoy at room temperature or slightly chilled. The spread will last for up to 4 days in the fridge. Enjoy!

Notes

• Vanilla beans vary in size, and there is no fixed amount of seeds contained in a quarter vanilla bean. Typically, a 1/4 medium-large (7- to 9-inch) vanilla bean should yield about 1/2 teaspoon of seeds. For this recipe, start with about 1/8 tsp. (somewhere between 0.3 and 0.5 g) of seeds and then add more to taste. It’s better to start with a lower amount (0.3 g) as the excess of seeds could result in an unpleasant, somewhat gritty-like texture of the spread.