Lavender simple syrup is an easy way to add floral flavour to cocktails, lemonade and other drinks. Nikki Fotheringham‘s recipe combines dried lavender flowers with sugar, water and fresh lemon juice for a fragrant homemade syrup that keeps in the refrigerator for up to one month.

Use it to make Fotheringham’s Lavender Martini, stir it into sparkling water or lemonade, or drizzle it over pancakes or ice cream.

Lavender Simple Syrup

Nikki Fotheringham

A homemade lavender simple syrup made with dried lavender flowers and fresh lemon juice for cocktails and other drinks.

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Ingredients

3 tbsp dried lavender flowers
1 cup water
¼ tsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
2 cups granulated sugar

Instructions

Place the lavender flowers, water and lemon juice in a small pot and bring to a boil over high heat. Add the sugar, stir to combine, turn down the heat to low and simmer gently, uncovered, stirring frequently, for 15 minutes
Turn off the heat and let the syrup cool in the pot. Strain into prepared jars. Store the syrup in the fridge for 1 month.

Notes

This syrup is amber, so add purple colouring or beet powder while it’s still in the pot to get a dazzling purple colour that will make your cocktails pop.

Keyword homemade lavender syrup, lavender simple syrup, lavender simple syrup recipe, lavender syrup for cocktails

Lavender Martini recipe excerpted from Taste Buds by Nikki Fotheringham. Copyright © 2024 Nikki Fotheringham. Photographs by Laura Berman. Published by Appetite an imprint of Random House®, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.

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