This bright, sweet Strawberry Syrup is made with just fresh strawberries, sugar, and water—no artificial flavors or colors.

Adding vanilla beans to a homemade simple syrup makes it extra tasty in all sorts of drinks and as a drizzle, so we asked an expert how long to simer it for.

To make a vanilla bean syrup at home, simply use a 1:1 ratio of turbinado sugar to water and add a split, scraped vanilla bean pod to the pot, making sure to get every last vanilla seed into the ...

He has written three cookbooks and has worked as a food editor and recipe developer for several food media publications, such as Lucky Peach, Food & Wine, Saveur, Food Network and Buzzfeed/Tasty.

Vanilla simple syrup: Add half a vanilla bean to the mixture before bringing it to a boil. Orange: Add the peel from half an orange to the mixture before bringing it to a boil; after it cools, add ...

Use the same method as the faux maple syrup, but add spices to taste. Try 1/4 teaspoon of one or more of ground cinnamon, cardamom, ginger or nutmeg, plus vanilla.

1. Combine 1 cup water with sugar, cinnamon and pepper in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil over high heat, lower heat and simmer until sugar is dissolved, about 2 minutes.