Simple Syrup

by Sabrina Snyder

Last Update: April 23, 2025

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Cook Time 10

Total Time 10

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Simple Syrup is great for baking and sweetening drinks. You can easily make it at home on the stovetop with just sugar and water.

This sweet syrup is super easy to make with just two ingredients. It’s perfect for baking or making classic cocktails like Margaritas or Gin Gimlets.

Sabrina’s Simple Syrup Recipe

You can use Simple Syrup in so many recipes, whether you’re mixing homemade drinks for a party, adding a finishing touch to baked goods, or want to sweeten your morning coffee. It’s a great kitchen staple to have around. All you have to do is combine equal parts sugar and water, and cook into a syrupy mixture on the stovetop. Once the syrup is done, you can store it in a mason jar or glass bottle in your fridge. It can keep well for about a month.

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Ingredients

▢ 1/2 cup sugar
▢ 1/2 cup water

Instructions

In a small saucepan over medium heat dissolve sugar and water by stirring.
Let cool to room temperature and place in glass with a lid.
Keep refrigerated.

Nutrition

Collage of ingredients, prep, and finished syrup.

About the Author: Sabrina Snyder

Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon.

Sabrina Snyder is a professionally trained personal and private chef of over 10 years who is the creator and developer of all the recipes on Dinner, then Dessert.

She is also the author of the cookbook Dinner, then Dessert – Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5 or 7 Ingredients, published by Harper Collins.

She started Dinner, then Dessert as a business in her office as a lunch service for her coworkers who admired her lunches before going to culinary school and becoming a full time personal chef and private chef.

As a personal chef Sabrina would cook for families one day a week and cook their entire week of dinners. All grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning was done along with instructions on reheating. As a private chef she cooked for private parties and cooked in family homes in the evenings for families on a nightly basis after working as a personal chef during the day.

Sabrina has been certified as a ServSafe Manager since 2007 and was a longstanding member of the USPCA Personal Chef Association including being on the board of the Washington DC Chapter of Chefs in the US Personal Chef Association when they won Chapter of the year.

As a member of the community of food website creators Sabrina Snyder has spoken at many conferences regarding her experiences as a food writer including the Indulge Food Conference, Everything Food Conference, Haven Food Conference and IACP Annual Food Professionals Conference.

Sabrina lives with her family in sunny California.

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