Raspberry Syrup

Homemade raspberry syrup is made with just 3 ingredients and serves as the perfect addition to cocktails and iced teas. Between the deep red color and deliciously refreshing flavor, you’ll want to add it to all of your beverages!

There is something so satisfying about making your own simple syrup. Not only is it more cost effective, but it’s easy and fun.

One of my favorite simple syrups is this raspberry syrup. It adds beautiful color to your cocktail creations while also providing great flavor. It’s hard to believe a recipe this delicious has only 3 simple ingredients.

Fresh fruit syrups like this one make great additions to many cocktails and desserts. You’re only limited by your imagination!

Want a little spice in your simple syrup? Try my ginger infused simple syrup recipe. Have extra mint from your garden? Make my mint simple syrup.

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Helpful tips

• Raspberries are fragile. Each berry has a thin skin which easily soaks up liquid, so you should rinse them in cold water right before you either eat them or use them in a recipe.
• Since the berries are prone to growing mold, never wash them and then store them in the refrigerator.
• Pick over the raspberries before washing them. Throw away any berries that have mold on them. It’s okay to keep them if they are crushed, as long as they are mold-free.
• I’ve made this raspberry syrup both with raw cane sugar and with white sugar. I prefer white sugar because it doesn’t change the beautiful color.
• It’s not strictly necessary, but I use filtered water whenever I make simple syrups.
• After you make this simple syrup, you will be storing it in the refrigerator in an airtight container. The syrup will last up to a month in the fridge.
• Drizzle a few tablespoons of this raspberry simple syrup on cheesecake, pancakes, waffles, cake, or yogurt and you’ll be in for a treat.

How to make raspberry syrup

Pre-step

Get a medium saucepan, fine mesh strainer, glass container, fork, and a glass jar.

Step one

Gather the ingredients – fresh raspberries, filtered water, and white sugar. (A)

Step two

Carefully run water over the raspberries, pick through and throw away any moldy berries, and set the rest aside.

Step three

Add one cup water and one cup sugar to a medium saucepan. (B)

Step four

Turn the heat under the pan to medium heat and stir the two ingredients until the sugar melts. (C)

Step five

Add the washed raspberries. (D)

Step six

Take a fork and mush some of the raspberries as they heat up. (E)

Step seven

Bring the mixture to a boil. (F)

Step eight

Lower the heat to a simmer and cook for 15 minutes. Stir the raspberry simple syrup to make sure all the berries have been broken down. (G)

Step nine

Place the fine mesh strainer over a measuring glass and slowly pour the raspberry syrup in the strainer. (H)

Step ten

Take a fork and push it through the raspberry mixture to help the syrup run through the strainer. (I) You will be left with raspberry pulp and seeds. I usually throw them in the compost bin.

Step eleven

Keep pouring the raspberry syrup in the strainer and repeat using a fork to force the fruit flavors to move through the sieve and into the container.

Pour the thick syrup in a ball jar.

Time to use it in cocktail.

Look at that color. No food coloring here!

I hope you enjoyed this raspberry syrup recipe. It’s a keeper.

And as always, may all your dishes/drinks be delish.

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