Name: Cranberry Simple Syrup
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 2 cups
Ingredients: 12 ounces fresh cranberries; 2 cups water; 2 cups granulated sugar

Close up photo of a weck jar filled with cranberry simple syrup.

Homemade Simple Syrup

This Cranberry Simple Syrup brings a sweet but tart drink to your taste buds easily using just 3 ingredients!

Bringing a sweet but tart drink to your taste buds doesn’t get any easier than this 3 ingredient cranberry recipe!

In just 25 minutes you’ll be adding this flavored syrup to all of your beverages! We especially love it in this Christmas Mimosa Punch!

Cranberry simple syrup in a glass weck jar with the lid on.

Cranberry Simple Syrup Ingredients

Fresh or frozen cranberries, water and granulated sugar work together to bring you this cranberry syrup! With an ingredients list that short and simple you won’t have any excuse not to make this!

Overhead photo of ingredients to make cranberry simple syrup on a marble table.

How To Make Cranberry Simple Syrup

Using a small saucepan, bring to a boil the cranberries, sugar, and water. Once boiling, reduce to a medium heat, stirring occasionally.

2. Let the cranberry juice mixture simmer for 15 minutes until the cranberries soften and burst.

Cranberries simmering in a small saucepan.

3. Pour the homemade cranberry syrup through a fine mesh strainer into a large bowl. Without pressing down allow it to cool completely, throwing away any leftover cranberry pieces.

Cranberries being run through a fine mesh strainer.

How To Serve

The main purpose of this syrup is to easily add cranberry flavor to any mixed drink! Serve it up in your favorite cocktails, mocktails, or lemonades, and iced teas. We use it to make our Cranberry Cosmopolitan recipe!

Your kids may even love a splash of it added into their water! This syrup would even be great for mixing up punches for birthdays or holiday parties!

Try this syrup out in my Cranberry Apple Cider Punch or Cranberry Mojito Punch recipes!

How To Store Simple Syrup

This syrup recipe keeps for two weeks in the refrigerator, giving plenty of time to dream up drink possibilities!

If storing this simple syrup in the fridge it will slightly thicken from the pectin in the cranberries. Leave it out at room temperature before serving and it will turn back to liquid, or microwave it for 15 seconds.

Cranberry simple syrup being poured into a cocktail shaker.

More simple syrup recipes to mix into your homemade drinks!

Honey Simple Syrup – Enjoy the sizzle of summer with this syrup mixed into Honey Lemonade!
Strawberry Simple Syrup – The perfect addition to homemade iced tea!
Lavender Simple Syrup – Great in this creamy hot 5-minute Lavender Latte!
Raspberry Simple Syrup – Pairs well with a pitcher of the Best Lemonade Recipe!
Blueberry Simple Syrup – A sweet mix-in for cocktails!

Cranberry Simple Syrup

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Ingredients

2 cups

12 ounces fresh cranberries
2 cups water
2 cups granulated sugar

Steps

Place the cranberries, water, and sugar into a small saucepan. Stir well and bring to a boil, reduce heat to a simmer and simmer for 15 minutes, until the cranberries have burst and softened stirring occasionally.
Pour the syrup through a fine mesh strainer into a large bowl. Do not press down, allow to cool completely and discard the leftover cranberry pieces.

Notes

This can also be made with frozen cranberries.
Once placed in the fridge, the syrup will slightly thicken due to all the pectin in the cranberries. It will turn back to a liquid at room temperature, or you can place it in a microwave-safe glass or bowl and microwave for 15 seconds and stir.
This syrup recipe keeps for two weeks in the refrigerator, giving plenty of time to dream up drink possibilities!