Make Your Own Flavored Coffee Syrups

Do you like the flavored coffee syrups at your favorite coffee shop?  This is how to make your own flavored coffee syrups that you can use at home and save some money.

VANILLA SYRUP

INGREDIENTS:

2 cups water

2 cups sugar, brown or white

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract (the clear kind is better here)

DIRECTIONS:

In a small pot, heat your water and sugar over low/medium heat, stirring constantly until the sugar has dissolved. Now stir in your vanilla extract and pour into your dispenser.  You can experiment with other extract flavorings.

RASPBERRY SYRUP

INGREDIENTS:

2 cups water

2 cups sugar, brown or white

1/2 cup fresh raspberries

DIRECTIONS:

In a small pot heat, your water and sugar over low/medium heat, stirring constantly until the sugar has dissolved. Mash up the raspberries a little and then stir them in with the syrup, allow this to mingle for 3-5 minutes. Pour through a fine-mesh strainer to filter out any large raspberry pieces and seeds. Then pour into your dispenser.  You can experiment with your favorite fresh fruit, like strawberries, blueberries, etc.

CARAMEL SYRUP

INGREDIENTS:

2 cups water

2 cups sugar, brown or white

1/2 cup caramel syrup

DIRECTIONS:

In a small pot, heat your water and sugar over low/medium heat, stirring constantly until the sugar has dissolved. Stir in caramel until well combined and pour into your dispenser.

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Label the syrups.  You can add decorative labels or ribbons to these for gifting. You can wrap a piece of craft paper (labeled and decorated any way you like) around the bottle(s).  These do not need to be refrigerated.  The shelf life value is unknown by me at this point.