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!
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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.
- Put all ingredients in a saucepan and simmer.
Stir to make sure sugar dissolves completely. - Take off heat and steep.
- 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.
Questions You May Have
The color of the lavender syrup depends on the color of the lavender flowers. The deeper purple the flowers, the more purple will come out in the syrup. If the lavender is mostly buds and not flowers, the syrup will have a more beige color.
Use a mesh strainer to filter out the lavender flowers and buds.
Yes! Add 1-2 tablespoons of syrup to warm milk to make a lavender steamer.
More Simple Syrups
- Lemon Syrup
- Rose Syrup
- Vanilla Syrup
- Cinnamon Syrup
- Brown Sugar Syrup
- Homemade Simple Syrups for Tea and Coffee
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Simple Lavender Syrup
INGREDIENTS
- 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
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.
Thank you for sharing. My Aunt gifted me some fresh dried Lavender… your recipe helped me to put my gift to use,
Hi, do you have any recommendations on where to purchase the best lavender flowers from?
Hi Amy, I get lavender from Harneys.com and I like the quality.
You left out one of my favorites, lavender lemonade!
Also, if you have access to fresh lavender flowers, the color will be much more vivid. Just make sure they’re grown without pesticides.
Hi Donna, great tips!
Delicious and perfect for London Fog! Agree it’s super easy to make. Thank you for sharing! ☕️