Individual hard-candy flavors dissolved into syrups and mixed with chilled club soda for brightly flavored drinks.
Two candies per cup of soda gives a clear, lightly sweet flavor; add a third for a bolder color. Dissolve each flavor separately; blended colors turn muddy.
Pour the club soda slowly down the side of the glass to keep the fizz. Syrups keep 1 week covered in the fridge. Let each syrup cool before pouring over ice or the soda goes flat.
Ingredients
Scale
Measurement units
- 8 Jolly Rancher candies
- ½ cup water
- 4 cup club soda
- 4 cup ice
Ingredients
Scale
Measurement units
- 8 Jolly Rancher candies
- ½ cup water
- 4 cup club soda
- 4 cup ice
Instructions
Dissolve each flavor
Put Jolly Rancher candies into 4 small microwave-safe bowls, 2 candies of one flavor per bowl.
Divide water (½ cup) evenly among the 4 bowls.
Microwave each bowl in 20-second bursts, stirring between each, about 1 minute per bowl, until the candy has dissolved into a syrup.
Equipment: 4 small microwave-safe bowls
Cool the syrups
Let the syrups cool to room temperature.
Build the sodas
Fill 4 tall glasses with ice (4 cup) and pour one cooled syrup into each.
Top the glasses with club soda (4 cup), 1 cup per glass, stir gently and serve.
Equipment: 4 tall glasses
Before you cook
Cook notes
- • Two candies per cup of soda gives a clear, lightly sweet flavor; add a third for a bolder color.
- • Dissolve each flavor separately; blended colors turn muddy.
- • Let each syrup cool before pouring over ice or the soda goes flat.
- • Pour the club soda slowly down the side of the glass to keep the fizz. Syrups keep 1 week covered in the fridge.
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