This Real Fruit Syrup Snow Cone Syrup recipe can be used to make a variety of homemade berry and fruit syrups. Use the homemade fruit syrup for snow cones, to sweeten cocktails or drizzle on pancakes, ice cream, cheesecake and more!
Snow cone syrup recipe
Simple syrup, or bar syrup, commonly used in cocktails, is a 2/1 mix of sugar and water. This version is made with fresh fruit for delicious flavor and beautiful natural color that’s perfect to make homemade snow cone syrup!
These syrups were made with fresh clementines, blood oranges and frozen mixed berries to mix up an array rainbow-colored flavor combos for a snow cone bar.
But of course there are so many different uses for this homemade fruit syrup recipe. And you can make a variety of real fruit syrups with whatever fruits you’d like. It’s a super versatile homemade fruit syrup recipe.
Ingredients
- Fresh or frozen fruit – clementines, blood oranges, berries. Or you can make watermelon syrup, fresh ginger syrup, raspberry syrup, blackberry mint syrup, rhubarb syrup, lavender syrup, and so many different combinations of real fruit syrups.
- Granulated sugar
- Water
Step by step instructions
- Simmer fresh or frozen fruit with granulated sugar and water. Or omit water if using fresh fruit juice.
- Remove from heat and allow to steep until slightly cooled.
- Pour through a fine mesh strainer, pressing on solids to extract as much flavor as possible.
- Add to a lidded container.
- Cool completely.
- Store refrigerated until ready to use.
- Enjoy!
How to store
Simple syrup has to be stored refrigerated especially when made with fresh fruit. Store fresh fruit syrup refrigerated for up to 14 days.
How to use
To use homemade syrup to make snow cones fill your cup with ice and blend (or process with food processor) on highest setting until consistency of shaved ice. Add a little water to help smooth it out if needed.
Or use the syrup for cocktails, mocktails, iced tea, pancakes, cheesecake and so much more!
📖 Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 medium clementines peeled and segmented
- ¾ cup blood orange juice from about 2 oranges, fresh squeezed
- ¼ cup fresh or frozen berries blackberries, blueberries, loganberries and raspberries or any mix
- 1 ½ cups granulated sugar divided in 3 parts
- 1 cup water divided in 2 parts
Instructions
- In a small saucepan bring clementine segments, ½ cup of sugar and ½ cup of water to a simmer. Cook, smashing segments with a potato masher or wooden spoon, until sugar dissolves and clementines release their juices. Simmer until slightly reduced, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let steep while cooling slightly. Then pour through fine mesh strainer into a jar or syrup dispenser and continue cooling.3 medium clementines, 1 ½ cups granulated sugar, 1 cup water
- Wash out saucepan and repeat with the berries, ½ cup sugar and ½ cup water. Bring to a simmer and continue cooking until reduced and slightly syrupy, about 5 minutes. When reduced press on the berries when pushing through the strainer to extract all the liquid. And place in jar to cool.¼ cup fresh or frozen berries
- Rinse out saucepan again and repeat with blood orange juice and remaining ½ cup of sugar, using no water this time as the juice is enough liquid. Strain to remove any lasting orange pieces and let cool in jar.¾ cup blood orange juice
- Once cool, scoop shaved ice or snow into a large drinking glass or parfait cup and drizzle with your choice of fruit syrup.
Nutrition
TJ
The ingredients list sugar twice, should one of them be water?
ONE armed MAMA
Yes! I sure did. Thanks for catching that. I’ve updated the recipe.
Irene Serrato
My homemade fruit syrup is watery and not like syrup!!
ONE armed MAMA
Hi Irene! I’m so sorry this wasn’t what you were expecting. Typical simple syrup or ‘bar syrup’ is thicker than this fruit snow cone syrup. Typically simple syrup is 2 parts sugar to 1 part water but this is more 1 to 1 part after simmering depending on how ‘juicy’ your fruit is. If you’d like it to be thicker you can simmer again with another 1/2 cup of sugar then cool. Hope this helps!
Alice Carroll
I like the idea of incorporating ginger to snow cones to add a little bit of sophistication to its flavor. I’m planning to buy a snow cone machine soon because I’d like to experiment with cold dessert while summer is still not over. Hopefully my kids would like them and help me with ideas on what fruits should I used as sweeteners.