Honey Simple Syrup

Honey Simple Syrup is a kitchen staple that adds a touch of natural sweetness and a hint of honey's unique flavor to your favorite recipes. It's a versatile sweetener that can elevate cocktails, beverages, and desserts to a whole new level of deliciousness.

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Sweeten Your Life with Homemade Honey Simple Syrup for Cocktails

One of the most appealing aspects of honey simple syrup is its incredible versatility. It's not just for sweetening drinks; it can be a secret weapon in your culinary arsenal, enhancing everything from classic cocktails to homemade salad dressings.

Sometimes called liquid honey, honey simple syrup makes using honey in the kitchen 10x easier!

Honey can be thick, have you ever tried stirring honey into a glass of iced tea or tried to graciously drizzle it over some food only to have it be clumpy and sticky? Well Honey Simple Syrup solves those problems.

While the main purpose on this site for Honey Simple Syrup is cocktails you will find there is a lot you can do with it.

Recently I took some hot honey that was just way too thick to properly drizzle on foods and I turned it into hot honey simple syrup, the result? Drizzle perfection (and by the way if you aren't putting hot honey on your pizza you are doing it wrong).

So Why Honey?

What sets honey apart from regular sugar is its rich, complex flavor profile. Depending on the flowers the bees visited, honey can have floral, herbal, or even slightly fruity notes. This makes honey simple syrup a special ingredient that brings depth and character to your recipes.

So depending on what kind of honey you use your honey simple syrup might have a different flavor to it.

There are actually all sorts of variations of honey! Some honey varieties include:

• Clover
• Wildflower
• Acacia
• Alfalfa
• Buckwheat
• Creamed
• Manuka
• Eucalyptus
• Orange Blossom

If you start looking into these different types of honey you will notice that many of them even have different colors, some being very dark and some being very light!

So now that you have your honey picked out are you ready to make some Honey Simple Syrup?

Ingredients

• 1 cup honey
• 1 cup water

Instructions for Honey Simple Syrup

Honey simple syrup is the easiest out of all of the simple syrups.

Begin by combining equal parts honey and water in your saucepan.

Heat the mixture over low to medium heat, stirring until the honey completely dissolves. It should be fully dissolved well before simmering, it is best for honey simple syrup to just get it hot enough to dissolve and then take it off of the heat right away.

Let cool to room temperature before transferring to a container for storing.

You can store honey simple syrup in the fridge for at least a month up to 6 weeks.