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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.
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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!
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10 lb of cherries – half eat , half freeze 🙂
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With 10lbs of cherries I would freeze some, make vareniki, make cherry pie and make this amazing drink you have posted!
Love cherries. Make cherry pies with a friend and then freeze them for later use. Thank you.
If I had 10lbs of cherries I would make vareniki and eat as much as i possibly can while they are in season, cause in the winter I can’t wait when they are in season again. Your blog is awesome and very inspiring.
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with 10 lbs of cherries….I would make this amazing drink for a family BBQ party. I’m always looking for new drinks for hot summer days and this would be a HIT with my family.
if i got 10 ponds of cherries, id use all your cherrie recipes,eat bunch of them raw, and freeze some for when craving them:)
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with 10 pounds of cherries, i would make vareniki,kampot,drunen cherry cake,rulet,and would prob think of more things. also me and my kids wuld probaby eat at least half raw:)
With 10lbs I would probably close then in jars to have them for later(:
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I would eat most of 10 lbs of cherries plain and simple! Then I would use the rest for a pork tenderloin with cherry sauce & try your drunken cherry cake recipe.
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I would do the same thing you did. Experiment.:) …After eating a few pounds worth.;)