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Keep cool this summer and save money with this super simple 3-ingredient Homemade Snow Cone Syrup recipe!
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I am ashamed to admit the amount of money our family has given to various ice cream trucks and shaved ice carts. Let’s be honest, all of that stuff is way overpriced …
Last year, our family decided it would be fun to add a cotton candy machine, popcorn popper, hot dog roller, and snow cone machine to our house. At first, I was kind of hesitant, because I had to find a place to put all of this stuff! Plus, would we really use this stuff?!
Surprisingly, the answer was yes! We use the popcorn popper, hot dog roller, and snow cone machine all of the time! Not so much on the cotton candy machine unless we’re having a party. We’ve actually had people comment that it’s like going to the carnival when they come over to our house … I can only assume they’re talking about all of the nifty gadgets and not the chaos!! ?
For quite awhile, we bought those big jugs of syrup off of Amazon – and while they’re great, it got so expensive!! I don’t like spending money on things I can get or make cheaper, so I decided to make our own Homemade Snow Cone Syrup.
You only need three ingredients to make this Homemade Snow Cone Syrup – water, sugar, and flavored drink mix packets of your choice. Easy peasy! The flavors I used were Cherry, Grape, Berry Blue, and Peach Mango.
Stronger flavor
If you prefer a sweeter mixture, you can up the sugar ratio … and likewise, if you prefer a less sweet mixture, you can use less sugar. I use an equal 1:1 ratio to make a simple syrup and add whatever flavor of drink mix we want. If you want a real flavor punch, use two packets of drink mix. Cherry and Lemonade are faves in our house!
One recipe perfectly fills up one of these bottles I bought off of Amazon. I love that the bottle has a cap to help keep them fresh in the fridge and prevent an accidental spill.
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Stored in the refrigerator, these Homemade Snow Cone Syrups will be good for about one month – but ours never last that long!
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Homemade Snow Cone Syrup
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Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups water
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 1 packet unsweetened drink mix, 0.23 oz.
Instructions
- In a small saucepan, bring sugar and water to a boil; simmer until the sugar is dissolved, 3 minutes.
- Stir in drink mix until well combined.
- Remove from the heat and let cool completely.
- Transfer syrup to a container for pouring.
- To serve, pour the desired amount of syrup over shaved ice to flavor.
Notes
- Use your imagination to make a bunch of flavors to get you through summer.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
very very nice
This is a great recipe. We’ve made several flavors. We’ve used the drink mix packages (kool aid) and also the little boxed packets that you can put in water, cheap at the dollar store! And, depending on how strong/flavorful you want your syrup, you can add 3 of them (2 works great too!). My grandkids, along with the rest of us, love them! Thank you so much for sharing this recipe!! Much more affordable than buying the premade syrup!!! And the flavors you can create are endless!!! We also made the Sonic Ocean Water with the boxed water packets!! A favorite!
It came out just right Thank you .I flavored it with banana 🍌 extract and strawberry 🍓 and yellow & red food coloring.perfect for tomorrow its gonna be in the 💯 .
That is a good idea. How was the taste and thickness of the syrup
The recipe looks good but I haven’t tried it yet, should I use brown or white sugar?
white sugar
Have you tried making a huge batch of the water/sugar mixture, then parting it out to mix in the flavors? I don’t want to have four pots going at the same time.
You can do that.
Just what I need to help me honor my sister Brenda’s birthday. She is gone but not forgotten. Thanks!.
I made this with sharkleberry fin flavored Kool aid and for my next batch I’ll use the same flavor but I’m going to cook off a bit more water, to me the syrup seemed a bit on the thin side. Definitely make a day in advance too. That way you won’t have to ice bath your syrup bottle out of impatience
I made it and it’s close, I plan on the next batch cooking more of the water off of the syrup to get a thicker syrup. It did taste good thiugh
Is this recipe just like the real snowball syrup like on the snoball trucks or is it really watery
We use the salad shredder attachment to our kitchen Aid mixer to shave ice. Stock pile on freezer just for the day. Then serve later at event.