Honey in its most natural and raw form, is a weighty competitor when it comes to natural sweetness. However, the honey that ends up on our breakfast table isn’t the same thing. This honey is farmed in enormous quantities and undergoes a pasteurisation process that also unfortunately zaps all the wonder stuff it contains, such as minerals, enzymes and the pollen it was made from. Extra Flavor with Add-Ins: Enhance your syrup with some coconut flakes or a hint of coconut extract for that extra tropical flair. If you're looking to add a twist to the traditional coconut syrup, you might even try a dash of cinnamon syrup to spice things up.

Coconut Syrup – Coconut Merchant

The good news is, these simple ingredients can easily be found at your local grocery store. Let's get started! Step-by-Step Guide to Making Homemade Coconut Syrup Step 1: Dissolving the Sugar You can use regular white table sugar, pure cane sugar, organic sugar, demerara, turbinado, brown sugar, etc. It’s completely up to you and what you have on hand. Just keep in mind that different sugars will give the syrup a slightly different flavor. With bees farmed for honey, honey is not vegan-friendly. That immediately eliminates it from a large and growing number of people’s diets. Honey also has a very distinctive taste, and isn’t just ‘sweet’.Again, like honey, maple syrup has a distinctive taste which means you’ll always know that its maple syrup being used as the sweet-element. Great if you want that, not so great if you don’t want such a dominant flavour.

Coconut Simple Syrup Recipe - The Coconut Mama

In a medium saucepan over medium-high heat, add 2 cups of sugar and 1 cup of water. Stir continuously until the sugar dissolves completely. This creates a smooth base for our syrup, ensuring there are no gritty sugar particles in the final product. Step 2: Simmering the MixtureSugar– The sugar is going to help sweeten up the syrup. Pure cane sugar works great, but other granulated sugars can be used also. Darker sugars like date or coconut sugar will turn the syrup a darker color. This method uses honey or maple syrup to sweetened the simple syrup. For this method you will simmer 1 cup of water with 1 cup of honey in a small saucepan. Add in the 1/2 cup of shredded coconut and simmer and turn off the heat. Let the mixture sit until it cools. Once cooled, strain the coconut from the syrup and pour the coconut simple syrup into a jar or container. I got coconut syrup in my hair today. In my bangs, actually. Apparently I run my fingers through my bangs to sweep them out of my eyes like every 10 seconds. I never really noticed that I did this before, but it’s hard not to take notewhen your fingers keep getting caught in the now-dried, hours-old coconut syrup that you still haven’t washed out of your hair.