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Copycat Starbucks Syrups

Hello hello folks it’s time for another episode of “Elliot is way too into tea and not giving big businesses money” for @homesteadchronicles QuaranTEAM thingie. Yes I’m still doing it. A part of me wanted to do the donut recipe I made yesterday but since I want to do fairly simple recipes we are doing this instead.

So let’s get into this. Starbucks as well as all coffee shops use syrups to flavor your drinks. We know this. But did you know they take 3 ingredients and like 3 minutes to make? Yea. And then, lo and behold, you’ve got no need for Starbucks anymore bc you can do exactly what they do. We love that. Today I’m giving you this power to say fuck you starbucks, and trust me it’s worth the 3 minutes bc dang it feels good. Plus, sugar syrups are much better than adding plain sugar, as it mixes more evenly, no graininess, all that shit, plus it’s flavored which is the main plus here. You can make this with any flavoring, or with none, and I’ll teach you how to do both in this post (tho I’m using vanilla in the ingredients as a stand in). So Let’s do this.

Ingredients

1 cup sugar

1 cup water

3 tsp vanilla

Method

Warm all ingredients in a small pot on medium low temperature, stirring continuously until all sugar is fully dissolved. Do NOT let boil or burn. Once it’s fully dissolved it’s done. Pour into mason or pump jar and boom there you go.

This will make anout 1 mason jar worth of syrup, but you can adjust the amount you make. Keep it in an equal water to sugar ratio and you’re golden. Store it in the fridge, and it should last about a month or so. You can adjust this recipe by adding more sugar to water, up to a 2:1 sugar to water ratio (I find it doesn’t dissolve properly beyond that) if you prefer it sweeter, tho it messes up the pump stuff below. You can also add any other extract flavoring in place for the vanilla, like I mentioned! You’re going to want to use extract tho not anything else bc then you have to strain it and ugh it’s annoying. For a plain sugar syrup, use the higher sugar to water ratio and no flavoring.

So how much do you use? Well either go by taste of course, or you can go by the “pumps”. 1 pump is about 1/2tbsp or so. small hot drink is 2 pumps, medium is 3, and so on. I can’t remember for iced drinks, but I think it’s adding 1 extra pump to that? So 3 for a small size, 4 for a medium, etc. this is at least what we did at the cafe I worked at, and it seems to be the standard. At home I just go by taste.

So there you go, everything you need to make your own mini Starbucks out of your kitchen. Go wild my friends.