Hibiscus simple syrup is a sugar syrup with tart and floral notes. Add it to your favorite drinks: mocktails, cocktails, and desserts or baked goods. This tea-infused syrup is easy to make and only requires two simple ingredients.

Ingredient Notes

Hibiscus tea – a red colored tea once brewed with a tangy, sour/tart, floral taste.
Organic cane sugar – my favorite type of sweetener to use. It isn’t super sweet and dissolves well, but you could also use white granulated sugar.
Water – to dissolve the sugar.

Make It Your Way: Substitutions & Variations

Please remember that recipes are just a starting point.

How can you make this hibiscus simple syrup recipe using what you already have? Here are some ideas…

No organic cane sugar? – use white sugar or honey.
No hibiscus tea bags? – you can also use loose leaf hibiscus tea.
Add-ins – orange peel or lemon peel, fresh ginger, etc.

Helpful Tips

If you have a gas stove, it’s important that you remove the loose tea from the tea bag and cook it directly in the simple syrup to prevent the strings from catching on fire.
You must use a fine granulated sugar. Raw sugar won’t work because the granules are too coarse and don’t dissolve as easily.
Using a dark sweetener such as maple syrup, brown sugar, or coconut sugar will alter the color of the syrup.
Store the homemade syrup in an airtight container or tightly sealed jar in the fridge for up to 3 weeks.

Serving Ideas

Hibiscus syrup can be used anywhere you’d use a liquid sweetener to sweeten something such as:

Mocktails – like my blood orange mocktail.
Cocktails – anywhere you want a tart, floral flavor. It’d be a great addition to margaritas or mojitos.
Baked goods – could pour over a loaf cake (like my lemon raspberry loaf) or drizzle over crispy waffles or fluffy pancakes.
Iced tea – add it to an iced matcha latte or enhance the flavor of iced tea.

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