Simple Homemade Lavender Syrup

Make your drink a little sweeter with lavender flavored simple syrup. So easy to make at home with just 3 ingredients. Takes less than 15 minutes from start to finish!

Recipe Highlights

• Homemade lavender syrup is super easy to make. It’s a lavender flavored simple syrup (liquid sweetener) made with three ingredients: sugar, water, and dried lavender.
• It’s perfect for sweetening and flavoring hot and cold drinks. They’re excellent for iced beverage since it’s liquid and will mix well into the drink unlike sugar, which will sink to the bottom.
• The recipe makes a cup of lavender syrup. It’ll last 2 weeks in the refrigerator in an airtight container.
• Make lavender tea lattes and flavor a basic iced tea with lavender flavor using this simple syrup. Or just add it to lavender tea.

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Ingredient Notes

• Dried lavender
  Look for dried lavender flowers or buds that are food-grade. Never use dried lavender from flower shops since they’re loaded with pesticides. Lavender tea is food-grade dried lavender flowers so it can be used to make the syrup.
• Sugar
  Use regular white sugar to get a little bit of a purple color in your simple syrup. You can also use brown sugar but that’ll change the color of the syrup to brown.
• Water
  Always use filtered water whenever possible. It’ll give you a better tasting syrup.

Step-by-Step Instructions

Here’s a quick overview of the steps to make this syrup. For full ingredients and instructions, scroll down to the recipe.

1. Put all ingredients in a saucepan and simmer.
   Stir to make sure sugar dissolves completely.
2. Take off heat and steep.
3. Strain and pour syrup into an airtight container.

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Serving Suggestions

• Add lavender syrup in sparkling water to make lavender flavored soda.
• Pour syrup in steamed or warm milk to make an instant lavender tea latte.
• Make lavender flavored iced tea by adding syrup to iced tea. 
• Add syrup to lavender tea to boost the lavender flavor.

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Expert Tips

• The more purple the lavender, the more purple in the simple syrup. Some syrups may have more of a beige color than purple but that’s perfectly normal.
• The recipe makes a cup of lavender syrup, which is 16 tablespoons. Use 1-2 tablespoons for each cup of tea.

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Questions You May Have

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Simple Lavender Syrup

Author: Jee Choe

Make your drink a little sweeter with lavender flavored simple syrup.

4.9 from 24 votes

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Prep Time 3 mins

Steep Time 10 mins

Total Time 13 mins

Course Drinks

Yield8 servings

INGREDIENTS

 

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• ▢ ¾ cup water
• ▢ ¾ cup sugar
• ▢ 3 tablespoons dried lavender (food-grade only)

INSTRUCTIONS

• Put all ingredients in a saucepan and simmer.

  Stir to make sure sugar dissolves completely.
• Take off heat and steep for 10 minutes.
• Strain and pour syrup into an airtight container.

  Use a mesh strainer to separate the lavender flowers and buds from the syrup. The syrup will keep for up to 2 weeks in the refrigerator.

EQUIPMENT

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Airtight Bottles

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NOTES

• Recipe makes 1 cup (16 tablespoons) of lavender syrup.
• Use 1-2 tablespoons of syrup for each cup.
• The more purple the lavender, the more purple in the simple syrup. Some syrups may have more of a beige color than purple but that’s perfectly normal.

 

Syrup Uses:

• Add lavender syrup in sparkling water to make lavender flavored soda.
• Pour syrup in steamed or warm milk to make an instant lavender tea latte.
• Make lavender flavored iced tea by adding syrup to iced tea. 
• Add syrup to lavender tea to boost the lavender flavor.

NUTRITION

Calories: 75 | Carbohydrates: 19g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Sodium: 1mg | Sugar: 19g | Vitamin A: 17IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 12mg | Iron: 1mg

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