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Lavender simple syrup is an easy recipe to make and there are lots of delicious ways to use it! This quick recipe starts with the basic simple syrup recipe, before adding dried lavender flowers for a sweet, floral flavor. Use it in a lavender latte, a lavender lemon drop martini, to sweeten iced tea, or for a refreshing blueberry lavender lemonade.
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Lavender syrup has become a popular choice in coffee shops for lavender lattes. Create your own lavender coffee at home with frothed milk, strong brewed coffee or espresso, and this lavender syrup. It’s the perfect way to control the lavender flavor so it’s exactly to your liking. Use it in both hot and cold coffee drinks to create your favorite coffee shop lattes at home.
Homemade goodies are some of my favorite things to give to friends and family. Creating your own homemade lavender syrup is a great gift since it’s super versatile and has a unique, springtime flavor.
Print out the notes in my recipe card below and attach them to a bottle of homemade syrup to give your gift recipient lots of options for using their lavender syrup.
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What's in Lavender Syrup?
- White sugar - Cane sugar or beet sugar works great here. Any other sweetener will change the flavor of the syrup.
- Dried lavender - Choose culinary grade lavender, found in specialty shops or online.
- Water - Use filtered water for the best flavor.
How to Make Lavender Simple Syrup (Step by Step)
Heat the water to boiling. Add in sugar and stir until the sugar is dissolved.
Stir in dried lavender.
Let mixture steep until syrup has reached room temperature.
Strain the syrup through a fine mesh strainer placed over a bowl. Discard the lavender.
Store your lavender syrup in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 weeks.
Use Your Lavender Simple Syrup in…
- Coffee - Mix 1 ounce of syrup into your morning coffee.
- Lavender Lemonade - To make 1 glass, combine 2 ounce syrup with 3 ounce lemon juice in a large glass with ice. Top with 5 ounce club soda or sparkling water.
- Homemade Lavender Soda - To make 1 glass, combine 2 ounce syrup with 5 ounce club soda or sparkling water. Adjust the amount of syrup to taste.
- Iced Tea - Mix 1 ounce of syrup into iced tea for a sweet and refreshing cold lavender tea.
- Shake up my super popular Lavender Lemon Drop Martinis or make a Refreshing Lavender Blueberry Gin Cocktail.
- Make a pitcher of Blueberry Lavender Lemonade.
Other Tasty Recipes for Homemade Syrups
There are so many options for delicious and easy homemade simple syrup. Use fresh ginger in ginger simple syrup, some fresh or frozen rhubarb for rhubarb simple syrup or make a Kahlúa substitute with my 2 ingredient coffee simple syrup.
How to Make Your Lavender Drinks Turn Purple
The color from the dried lavender flowers doesn’t transfer into the syrup, so your syrup will naturally be a light yellow color, not a pale lavender color.
To make your lavender drinks purple without food coloring, start by making your syrup blue! Add ⅛ teaspoon of butterfly pea flower to the hot syrup. Whisk until it’s dissolved. Your syrup should be very blue.
Note: A little goes a LONG way with butterfly pea flowers. Don’t overdo it!! A tiny bit will make your syrup blue and add zero taste. Too much will create a navy blue color and impart a slight grassy taste to your syrup.
Make your drinks purple by combining lemon juice with the blue syrup. Acid - like lemon juice - reacts to the butterfly pea flower, making the blue syrup turn purple. It’s such a fun trick and makes your lavender lemonade or cocktail turn a purple color.
I often divide my batch of syrup into two jars - one gets the butterfly pea flower addition for use in cocktails and lemonade, and one gets left the light yellow color for use in coffee and lattes.
Try These Lavender Cocktails
Whether you use lavender syrup or lavender bitters, lavender is a delicious addition to cocktail any time of year! Try my super popular Lavender Lemon Drop Martini, a refreshing Lavender Bee's Knees cocktail, or a bright and summery Blueberry Lavender Gin Cocktail.
FAQs and Recipe Tips
Culinary grade dried lavender is available online and in specialty food stores. Remember that dried herbs are sold in small weights, so even packages that seem small (2 oz or 4 oz) will still contain plenty of dried lavender for syrups.
Make lavender honey syrup by substituting honey for the sugar in this recipe. You can also use coconut sugar in this syrup recipe. I don’t recommend brown sugar in this recipe, though, as it will change the flavor of the syrup a bit and doesn’t pair as nicely with the lavender flavor as other sweeteners.
Putting the lavender in your syrup too early will cause it to cook too long and become bitter. Treat the dried lavender like tea and steep it in already-hot syrup. Don’t put it in at the beginning when the water’s cool.
This syrup will keep in the refrigerator for up to 3 weeks. Get rid of it if the syrup becomes cloudy or shows any change in color.
If you don’t want to make the syrup, look for lavender simple syrup - sometimes called lavender cordial - at your favorite specialty food or liquor store.
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Easy Lavender Syrup Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- 1 tablespoon dried lavender culinary-grade
Instructions
- Heat the water to boiling. Add in sugar and stir until the sugar is dissolved.
- Stir in dried lavender. Let mixture steep until syrup has reached room temperature.
- Strain the syrup through a fine-mesh strainer placed over a bowl. Discard the lavender.
- Store your lavender syrup in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 weeks.
- Makes 1 ½ cups (12 oz) of syrup.
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Notes
- Coffee - Mix 1 oz of lavender syrup into your morning coffee.
- Lavender Lemonade - Combine 2 oz lavender syrup with 3 oz lemon juice in a large glass with ice. Top with 5 oz club soda or sparkling water.
- Lavender Soda - Combine 2 oz lavender syrup with 5 oz club soda or sparkling water. Adjust the amount of lavender syrup to taste.
- Iced Tea - Mix 1 oz of lavender syrup into iced tea for a sweet and refreshing cold lavender tea.
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