Sparkling Cherry Lemonade
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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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#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!
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can i use sparkling water instead?
Hi Jen, that should work! I hope you love this recipe.
This is our go to summer drink (we use water instead of seltzer). This weekend we’re making it into a cocktail by adding a splash of vodka. I can’t wait.
That’s just awesome!! Thank you for sharing that Tams!
Hello Natasha,
This is my first time I have made fruit syrup. It tasted divine and got me though teacher correction. Hoe long does it last in the fridge and can you freeze it?
Hi Anne, after adding the carbonated portion, it’s best to serve it right away or within a couple of hours since it will be less fizzy but the syrup will keep covered in the fridge for about 5 days.
We did this using plain water instead of the club soda (we’re not fans of club soda). It was a HIT. Everybody loved it. Will definitely be a summer staple for us.
That’s great! I’m glad to hear everyone enjoys the recipe! Thanks for sharing your great review Tammy!
Probably needs a 10 star rating option here.
Have you ever added any alcohol and if so…what would be best?
Might be lovely with a Prosecco or a champagne?? mmmmmmm
Hi Helyn, I haven’t tried either of those but if you try it out, let me know how it goes! I searched through the comments and couldn’t find anyone who has turned it into an adult drink. Thank you for the awesome review!! 🙂
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If using frozen cherries do I thaw them first.
Hi Jackie – it would be easier to blend if they are thawed. I think a high powered blender would do the job even if they go in frozen.
The sparkling cherry lemons looks very good
Thank you 🙂
I love this cherry lemonade. I will be making it for new years eve! Cheers!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it! Happy New Years!
Love cherries and would eat as many as possible. I’d make and freeze cherry pies for later use.
Love cherries. I would eat as many as possible and make cherry pies for the freezer for later use.
With that much cherries I would eat them and share with family 😉
I would eat as many as possible and do some baking for the freezer. Thank you.
I would make cherry pie filling and can it!
I’d eat them raw!
What I will do with 10lbs of cherries? I will #1 eat them, #2 make this beautiful fizz drink and then make the cherry cake. 🙂
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Cherries r one of my favorite fruits, so i would eat alot of the cherries raw, with the help of my family of course (there is five of us) so at least half would be gone just like that. I would
definitely freeze some for later, we like compot . I would probably try the cake recipe too 🙂
With 10 lbs of cherries, i would eat about half. I love Cherries!! and with the rest, make vareniki, cherry jam, and lots of pies!
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10 pounds means I get to make scones & pie & cake & beverages! Of course, some need to be just eaten.
With 10 lbs of cherries, I would make a decadent fruit salad
Well, I (like most people, probably) can eat my weight in cherries so I’d probably take most of them down fresh. But a small batch of cherry jam might be in order!
I would eat what I could and make cherry pies for the freezer. Thanks.
I would probably leave a bowl on the table for me to grab whenever I laid my eyes on them, also would probably bake some muffins with cherries and give a shot at baking your cherry drunken cake!
I would make cherry pie.
Eat as many as possible and then make and freeze cherry pies for later use. Thank you.
I would make cherry cheesecake!
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i would make bulochki with cherries and them freeze the rest to make kompot later on. I always use cherry in my kompot.
eat half of it and make the cherry cake then freeze the rest.
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I LOVE cherries!! I would eat as much as I could eat! If there was anything left, I’m definitely interested in this lemonade and I would also probably make some cherry turnovers (maybe with a chocolate crust!)
I would eat some of them and freeze the rest of them to make kampot:)
I’d make cherry coffee cake and freeze rest of cherries to make cherry pie later. Thanks
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I would try this drink, make vareniki and drunken cherry cake with them. Yum! Love, love, love cherries!
I would try making this drink, freeze them and eat them
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10 pounds is not all that much, considering how yummy they are… they would simply be eaten. My kids love cherries.
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I would eat them!!! Don’t get enough of them fresh.. oh and I would make compot or this fizzy drink!!
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Eat them raw and make varenya, kompot, vareniki, cherry cakes and bulochki with cherries of course!
Yumm! If I had 10lbs of cherries, I would be tempted to eat them all! Of course not in one sitting. 🙂 I love vereniki with cherries, and would enlist my sis in law to help me make the traditional Ukrainian cherry cake. This drink looks delicious so I would definitely give it a whirl!
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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.
I’m following your new YouTube channel. 🙂
P.S. thanks for the giveaway!
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I would do the same thing you did. Experiment.:) …After eating a few pounds worth.;)
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! 🙂
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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.