This Cardamom Simple Syrup goes perfectly in cocktails, coffee, tea, and more! Made with organic cane sugar and infused with cardamom, vanilla, and lemon. Gluten-free and vegan.
Cardamom is a spice that works magic in both sweet and savory dishes.
This intensely aromatic spice comes from the seed pods of various plants within the ginger family. Cardamom can be bought as whole pods, seeds, or ground.
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What is Simple Syrup?
Simple syrup is a liquid sweetener used often in cocktails, other beverages, and baked goods. The ratio for simple syrup is one part water to one part sugar.
In this cardamom-infused version, as in this blackberry syrup, organic cane sugar keeps it completely vegan.
Ingredients
Making simple syrup is, well, simple!
In addition to sugar and water, here are the ingredients you will need:
- Organic cane sugar
- Cardamom seeds (or pods)
- Cinnamon stick
- Lemon peel
- Pure vanilla extract
How to Make Cardamom-Infused Simple Syrup
Grab your ingredients and a saucepan. Here are the steps to cardamom syrup:
- Toast your cardamom seeds in a small saucepan over medium heat.
- Add organic cane sugar, water, lemon peel, cinnamon, and vanilla extract.
- Heat and stir mixture until sugar has dissolved.
- Simmer for 20 minutes and remove from heat.
- Cool syrup completely.
- Strain into a clean and sterile airtight glass bottle or container.
- Store in the refrigerator for one week.
Where to Use Homemade Cardamom Syrup
The possibilities for this infused sweet concoction are endless. Read the list below for a few ideas to get you started:
- Cocktails
- Coffee
- Tea
- Baked goods
- Pastries
Infused simple syrups also make great edible gifts! Have a cocktail lover or someone who loves flavored teas and coffee? Gift them this cardamom syrup or bundle it with others like hibiscus syrup or cinnamon syrup.
More Cocktails with Simple Syrup
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📖 Recipe
Cardamom Simple Syrup
Ingredients
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup organic cane sugar
- 1 teaspoon cardamom seeds (or 1 ½ teaspoon cardamom pods, split open)
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 lemon peel
- ¼ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- Toast your cardamom seeds in a small saucepan over medium heat for one minute. (If using cardamom pods, use the flat side of a knife to split pods open one at a time. You can place the pods in the saucepan as well.)
- Add water, organic cane sugar, lemon peel, cinnamon stick, and vanilla extract.
- Heat and stir occasionally until sugar has dissolved.
- Turn down heat and simmer for 20 minutes. Remove from heat. Allow syrup to cool completely.
- Strain cardamom syrup into a clean and sterile airtight glass bottle or container.
- Store in the refrigerator for one week.
Jacqueline
When you say "store in the refrigerator for one week" do you mean wait a week before using, or use within a week?
Tessa
Hi! Use within the week! Sorry for the confusion.
Jill
Really, really, really good. Really!
Tessa
Aww, thanks so much!! 😊
km
I’ve made this recipe 3x since discovering it a few weeks ago—I’ve used it in coffee, cortados with a cardamom sugar rim, cocktails (tequila, grapefruit, and egg whites). So delicious!
I subbed the cinnamon stick for a few cloves, just because that’s what I had on hand. So good all the same!
Tessa
Amazing! That all sounds so good! Thank you. :)
Deb
Loved this cardamom syrup. Made it to serve with cardamom and apple dessert cake - cake didn’t really need the syrup but it is delicious and will definitely be used for other purposes.
Tessa
That's great! Thank you!
R
Used this to top off some blueberries for a thanksgiving lemon/cranberry curd tart. Absolutely love it!
Tessa
That sounds amazing! Thank you!