Pink Lemonade

Pink Lemonade is gorgeously pretty and is refreshingly easy to make and is perfect for serving at summer parties and weddings, baby showers or childrens birthday parties or for simply packing into a picnic.

This recipe for Pink Lemonade is from BBC Good Food and the syrup you make will keep in the fridge for up to one week.

Ingredients:

• 300g caster sugar
• 1 1/2 lemons, sliced
• 1 orange, sliced
• 3 X 170g / 6oz punnets raspberries
• Ice and fresh mint to serve

Pace all of the ingredients into a large saucepan and pour over 350ml of cold water. Bring to the boil, stirring as you go. Leave to cool. Once cool, pour through a sieve, pressing down with a spoon to extract all of the juices. You should be left with a glossy syrup. It's that simple!

To serve, pour a little into a glass and top up with sparkling or still water, ice and mint.

I skipped the mint and ice and instead I decanted my pink lemonade mix into 'Fentimans Dandelion and Burdock' bottles (drank, washed and labels removed!). Any glass bottle would do, the Starbucks iced coffee bottles would work well here too. 

For the finishing touch I added stripey paper straws, bakers twine to the bottle necks and spring chick labels ... I think my pink lemonade looks rather pretty!

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Here are some past bakes decorated with Sweet Hearts.

Happy St Valentines Lovely People!! x

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