While it's the perfect herb for baking and cooking, lavender is a lovely flavor to put in various cocktails. This light, low-sugar lavender honey simple syrup can be made ahead of time, bottled, and stored in your fridge. It's great in coffee, tea, or in a pinch when friends come over and want a cold beverage. These two fruity, fresh drinks give you the option to have a cocktail or mocktail. Just close your eyes, sip, and imagine yourself in the middle of a lavender field in the south of France!
Lavender Honey Simple Syrup
Ingredients:
1 cup honey
2 cups water
4 fresh lavender sprigs
Directions:
In a medium saucepan, bring the honey, water, and lavender to a boil. Take off the heat, letting the liquid steep and cool for at least 15 minutes. Take the lavender out before the liquid changes color drastically. Bottle the syrup and store in the fridge to use at a later time or make these drinks.
French Lavender Sangria
Ingredients:
1/2 cup of strawberries - sliced
1/2 cup of Rainier cherries - pitted and halved
1/2 cup red raspberries
1 lemon
1 cup lavender honey simple syrup
1 cup rose Lillet - chilled
1 bottle sparkling rose - chilled
Directions:
Add the strawberries, cherries, and raspberries to a pitcher. Slice a lemon in half, and juice one half into the pitcher. Cut the other half into small pieces and add with the berries. Pour in the simple syrup, Lillet, and sparkling rose. Stir and serve.
Fig Lavender Spritzer
Ingredients:
5 large figs - quartered
1 cup lavender honey simple syrup
4 cups grape juice
1 large bottle Pellegrino
Lavender sprigs - for garnish
Directions:
Add the figs to a pitcher and pour in the simple syrup, grape juice, and Pellegrino. Stir and serve with lavender sprigs.