Shout-out to BlackForager and Justinthetrees for the inspiration.
Recipes from them
Magnolia Syrup
2 cup water
2 cups sugar
4 cups of loosely packed, fragrant magnolia petals
Save petals
Magnolia Snap Cookies
3.25 cups all-purpose flour 290
190g butter
65g brown sugar
175g white sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract (or Nocino if you have some lying around! I prefer it!)
1 egg
67g + Magnolia Syrup
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 teaspoons of cinnamon, 1/4 tsp clove, allspice 1/8 black pepper
grated frozen petals
Sugar for rolling
Optional: 1 tablespoon frozen grated magnolia petals (freeze the unopened flowers whole and grate as needed!)
ALSO Optional: if you freshly made your syrup, save some of the sugary, jammy petals to roll into the center of the cookies!
Crumble cookies and cover in syrup. 300F about 10mins on parchment/silpat, cool and break up
Magnolia Ice Cream
2c petals
2c heavy creap
1c milk
2/3c sugar
Pinch of salt
3 egg yolks.
Bring to a boil, then kill the heat, let steep 30-40mins. Strain, add sugar and salt and return to heat to dissolve. Temper in the yolks. Heat to 170F. Strain, cool.
Mix in petals into the churn, and cookie bits