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The combination of club soda, cherry syrup and ice creates some incredible fizz in this sparkling cherry lemonade. Seriously, don’t take your eye off it when you’re adding the club sodie pop. Consider yourself warned.
This sparkling cherry lemonade is so delightful and thirst quenching. It’s perfect on a hot day and makes an impressive party drink. You can make the syrup ahead of time and keep it in the fridge up to a week!
This is how we used up the rest of the cherries sent to us from NW Cherry Growers and OXO as part of the 10lb cherry challenge. We went wild and made 2 recipes; the first was this Drunken Cherry Cake. Of course there are ~7 lbs that went unaccounted for. We ate them. They were so tasty and I’m not sorry.
Thank you so much to all who entered the giveaway and for sharing it with your friends and families! (Giveaway is now closed)
And the winners of the giveaway are:
#82: Olivia of Servingsisters.com who wrote: “I would do the same thing you did. Experiment.:) …After eating a few pounds worth.;)”
#70: Inna who wrote: “With 10 pounds of cherries, I would make some preserves, cherry vareniki, and eat some fresh cherries. (Subscribed to your youtube channel)”
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Simple Ingredients for Easy Cherry Lemonade:
Everything you need to make a refreshing and thirst-quenching summer party cherry lemonade!
How to Make the Best Cherry Lemonade Syrup:
1. Weight out 1 lb of cherries. P.S. This is the OXO Food Scale
Rinse, drain and pit your cherries. These OXO strainers and bowls
The OXO cherry pitter
If your children are using these, make sure they are wearing an apron or their ugly clothes. Despite the brilliant splash guard on the pitters, my son ended up with cherry juice everywhere. He’s 4. He’s a boy. Need I say more
2. In a blender, combine 3 cups pitted cherries, 1 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice (you might extract more if you really get angry with your lemons) and 1 cup sugar. If you’re cutting down on sugar in your life, feel free to use 3/4 cup sugar. Blend until smooth. You don’t want pieces of cherry to get stuck in your straw
Creating Sparkling Cherry Lemonade:
1. Fill a glass half way with ice. Pour 2-3 Tbsp of your cherry syrup over your ice and add club soda to taste. I used roughly 1/4 cup syrup to 3/4 cup club soda. You can do it to taste.
Top with a fresh cherry (or 5) and serve. You’re gonna love the fizzle. My sisters both said this was restaurant quality except WAY cheaper!
Sparkling Cherry Lemonade
Ingredients
- 3 cups about 1 lb Fresh (or frozen) Northwest cherries
- 1 cup lemon juice, from about 6 medium lemons
- 1 cup sugar, you can use 3/4 cup if you like
- 6-8 cups club soda, to taste
- Lemon slices and Ice to serve
Instructions
How to Make the Best Cherry Lemonade Syrup:
- Rinse, drain and pit your cherries.
- In a blender, combine 3 cups pitted cherries, 1 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice and 1 cup sugar. If you're cutting down on sugar in your life, feel free to use 3/4 cup sugar. Blend until smooth. You don't want pieces of cherry to get stuck in your straw.
Creating Sparkling Cherry Lemonade:
- Fill a glass half way with ice. Pour 2-3 Tbsp of your cherry syrup over your ice and add club soda to taste. It's usually 1/4 cup syrup to 3/4 cup club soda. Top with a fresh cherry and serve. You're gonna love the fizzle. My sisters both said this was restaurant quality except WAY cheaper!
Enjoy this refreshing and crisp sparkling cherry lemonade! So yum!
I love cherries so I would probably eat most of them as is with my hubby 🙂 then i would probably use the rest to make this and the drunken chocolate cherry cake! 🙂
I have pinned this 🙂 http://pinterest.com/pin/2955555978747412/
If I had 10 lbs of cherries I would make this drink:) Looks amazing. I love coming up with different drink combinations for parties. We also made a mixed berry jam that included cherries and it was yummy.
Eat them first of all and then make a cherry crumble. Love love cherries.
I would soak most of them in vodka to create ‘cherry bombs’. The rest would just get eaten.
I would eat the cherries lol.
Love cherries. Cherry pie is my favorite. I would make lots with a friend and freeze the pies for later use. Thank you for opportunity.
With 10lb of cherries, we would eat them fresh. However, since its just the 3 of us (Hubby, daughter and myself) they would start to become a little soft and I would then make cherry Sangria!!! (Hubby is from Argentina and loves his wines) Cherries would be a perfect addition to any wine that doesn’t meet his standards, turning any wine into a tasty Sangria!
With ten pounds I would give some to my mom, some to one sister, some to another, and some to my in-laws. Also I would make this drink.
I would probably make ALOT of your amazing lemonade and sip on it all day, to cool down.
If I had 10 lbs of cherries I would probably freeze a few lbs for vareniki, share a few lbs with my close family and friends and eat whatever is left 🙂
With 10 pounds of cherries, I would make some preserves, cherry vareniki, and eat some fresh cherries.
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I would like to try this drink! The rest would go toward Cherry Bounce. It is cherries steeped in vodka. Poured over ice for an after dinner drink.
I would defiantly make drunken cake… (My favorite) lemonade and eat them. My kids love cherries 🙂
I would make cherry streusel and freeze the rest.
I would eat as much as I could! And the rest-freeze them and make Kompot 🙂
With 10lbs of cherries I’d make the cherry cake of course, and vareniki and freeze and eat the rest!! Thanx for the opportunity!
With 10 pounds of cherries I would eat some , bake cakes, make some cherry Kampot 🙂
If I had 10 lb of cherries I would make varenie, and drunken cake yumm!!
I would definitely eat most of them as we’ll, lol but this drink you just posted found pretty good, would defiantly give that s try as well : oh yeah cherry pie is another ov my favorite