- 4 cups Lilac floretsfresh, destemmed, washed and rinsed
- 2 cups Granulated sugar
- 2 cups Water
Lilac Syrup
This Lilac Syrup is my new favorite kitchen secret and I am so excited to share it with you! Use it in summer cocktail mixes or as a base for a cake glaze over a vanilla sponge cake.
Herbal and infused for hours, the flavors from these beautiful florets are just something special and unique. You can also dry out some of these beautiful flowers to use as garnish when using this lilac syrup in a recipe.
To make Lilac Syrup, you will need the following ingredients:
Steps to make Lilac Syrup
1 | Boil sugar | 5 |
In a saucepan over medium heat, boil 2 cups of water and stir in 2 cups of granulated sugar until completely dissolved. | ||
2 | Add florets | 5 |
Add 4 cups of rinsed and cleaned florets and gently stir. Cover the saucepan with a lid, reduce the heat and simmer for about 5 minutes. | ||
3 | Steep | 8h |
Remove the saucepan from the heat and allow the florets to steep for about 3-8 hours. | ||
4 | Strain | 1 |
Pour the florets through a fine-mesh sieve into a large bowl allowing the finer drops to drip through. | ||
5 | Store or serve | 1 |
Pour the prepared syrup into a glass jar with a tight seal. Store in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks or serve in your favorite cocktails! Enjoy! | ||
Recipe Reviews
This was super delicious so happy I gave it a chance.
5 stars all the way this was super unique and tasted perfectly.
BRO these things literally grow outside my apartment I'm totally gonna freaking try this!!
Swapped out the white cane sugar for some brown suger, turned out great.
Kinda bitter didn't like it that much but my grandma did so it'll stay for now.
Shooketh after having this..I thought for sure it'd be bitter cause I tried a petal and didn't like it at all but this was sooo sweet.
The syrup was not as good as the shandy but i'll take it since it's made out of flowers that I can pick around my area.
Never in my life did I expect to make syrup out of flowers yet here we are!
Was really easy to make and the smell is heavenly! I had this syrup with some churro waffles :)
My kids are obsessed with it and now whenever we go outside they pick as many of these flowers as they can hold just so I can make them the syrup for their pancakes haha, too cute honestly.
Amazing! Thanks for sharing recipe!
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