Easy Homemade Blackberry Simple Syrup

Pouring rich blackberry syrup from a jar into a clear glass container on a wooden table, with blackberries in a small bowl nearby.

Easy Homemade Blackberry Simple Syrup

Add some spring flavor to your favorite drinks with our homemade blackberry simple syrup! We used fresh seasonal blackberries to make this syrup, and it has simple ingredients and is very easy to make.

Makes 1 ¼ to 1 ⅓ cups syrup (about 20 Tablespoons)

Course Condiments, Sauces, & Spreads

Cuisine American

Keyword blackberry simple syrup

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 15

Chilling time 10

Total Time 30

Servings servings

Calories 80kcal

Author Sarah Jane Parker

Ingredients

18 ounces fresh blackberries
¾ cup unbleached sugar
¼ cup water
1 Tablespoon + 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice

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Instructions

Add the washed blackberries, sugar, water, and lemon juice to a medium saucepan and stir together.
Cook over medium heat, stirring regularly, until the liquid begins to simmer. Lower the heat to medium-low and simmer for 10 minutes, stirring regularly.
You want the blackberries to release their liquid but you don't want the fruit to be very mushy. The berries still need to have some shape so you don't get a lot of fruit puree into the syrup.
Remove from the heat and pour the fruit and juice into a mesh strainer to separate the syrup, pressing slightly on the fruit to help release the juice/syrup. Press gently on the fruit to encourage the juices to come out, but don't press the fruit or puree through the strainer.
Allow the fruit to drip the juice/syrup into the bowl for about 5 minutes. You can use the leftover fruit for smoothies or oatmeal.
Allow the syrup to cool completely and store in a jar in the fridge for 1-2 weeks.

Notes

We used fresh blackberries, but this should work with frozen blackberries as well, just reduce the water by half (or completely) since frozen fruit tends to hold and release more liquid.

The nutrition info listed above is not completely accurate since this nutrition calculator estimates the nutrition with the whole blackberries.

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