Honey and water are all that’s needed to make this honey simple syrup. Use it in coffee, tea, or any drink where you want the sweet taste of honey.
Honey Simple Syrup
Honey syrup is a simple syrup that’s made with honey instead of sugar. The water dilutes the honey making it easy to pour into drinks, especially iced since the liquid syrup will easily mix in with the cold beverage.
Use it in coffee, tea, cocktails, or anywhere you want to sweeten and flavor a drink with honey.
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Recipe Highlights
- A super simple recipe, it’s made with just honey and water.
- It’s perfect for adding to drinks to flavor it with honey since it’s pourable.
- This recipe makes 1 cup of honey syrup, which can be used for up to 2 weeks.
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Ingredient Notes
- Honey: Any kind of honey can be used. The lighter colored honey tends to be milder in taste than dark colored honey.
- Water: Use filtered water if you can.
For full ingredients and detailed instructions, please see the recipe card at the bottom of the post.
Step-by-Step Instructions
Step 1: Put honey and water in a saucepan and just as the water starts to simmer, turn off the heat.
Stir until honey dissolves completely and let it cool.
Step 2: Pour syrup into an airtight container.
The syrup can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 3 weeks.
Expert Tips
- Raw honey is more natural and purer than the processed version which is heated during the bottling process. Heating honey in too high of a temperature can lead to loss of nutrients.
- The honey and water doesn’t need to come to a boil. It just needs to be warm enough so that the honey can be completely dissolved.
- Make honey steamers, which is a drink made of warm milk and honey syrup. Put 1-2 tablespoons of honey syrup into a cup of warm milk.
- The recipe makes a cup of honey syrup which is 16 tablespoons. Use 1-2 tablespoons of syrup to sweeten each cup.
- Use syrup in hot and iced coffee and tea, lattes, cocktails, and milk.
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Simple Honey Syrup
INGREDIENTS
- ⅔ cup honey
- ⅓ cup water
INSTRUCTIONS
- Heat honey and water in a saucepan and just as the water starts to simmer, turn off the heat. Stir until honey dissolves completely and let it cool.⅔ cup honey, ⅓ cup water
- Stir until honey dissolves completely and let it cool.
- Pour syrup into an airtight container.The syrup will keep for 3 weeks in the refrigerator.
NOTES
- Recipe makes 1 cup (16 tablespoons) of syrup.
- Use 1-2 tablespoons of syrup for an 8 ounce drink.
- The honey and water doesn’t need to come to a boil. It just needs to be warm enough so that the honey can be completely dissolved.