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Simple Syrups on Desserts: delectably easy upgrades to your sweet tooth's favorite recipes

March 01, 2023

We formulated our syrups for drinks, but darn it if they aren't amazing in desserts as well. Simple syrups are essential components of many classic desserts from cakes to sorbets, ice cream sundaes to fruit salads. Since our simple syrups are made in small batches with whole, homegrown ingredients we harvest and source from other local farms, our syrups are particularly fitted to elegant and flavorful desserts.

After all, as Queen Martha always says, you need to use "Best in Class" ingredients to produce the best possible tasting results. We've taken the fresh flavors of every season and preserved them for you with our fruit, herb, and spice syrups so you can add elevated flavors to your sweet treats, really simply. A fancy dessert recipe calling for a Rhubarb Vanilla Bean syrup is probably not going to be your go-to unless you have a time saver like our syrups, that doesn't compromise on flavor while being entirely convenient. And, we hope our syrups not only save you time but ignite your creativity. Would a simple pound cake get to the next level if it was drizzled with rhubarb vanilla bean syrup and garnished with lemon zest and pickled blueberries? I bet it would, but you'll have to try it, I'm just riffing here.

I can vouch that our lemon herb syrup as a cake soak on a rustic olive oil cake is the kind of thing that makes people go "ohmigosh what IS this?" with pleasure when they take a bite. You aren't playing around when you serve fresh cut berries tossed in berry sage syrup, dappled with crunched merringues and some fresh herbs. You get the idea: you gotta try these!  

Using Simple Goodness Simple Syrups As a Cake Soak

This is one of the reasons bakeries cakes taste better than cakes at home: bakers add a layer of flavored simple syrups to the top of each cake layer to add flavor and seal in moistness.

It's super easy, too: just use a basting brush or pastry brush to brush syrup onto the top of a cooled cake, allowing the cake to absorb the liquid for a dreamy texture and a little added sweetness. (If you add the syrup when the cake is hot from the oven it will soak in too quickly and you won't be able to get the syrup on evenly.) Adding moisture to cake sponge with a syrup soak is a pro way to bring a slightly overcooked and dry cake back to life!

This is also a way that professional bakers add layers of exciting flavor to their desserts. Combining spices, herbs, sweet, and sour flavors gives interest to a dish, and keeps our taste buds excited for more. Your one-note cakes can sign 4 part harmonies if you add our garden to glass simple syrups to the mix, layering the cake, syrup soak, and frosting flavors in intriguing ways.

Some cake + syrup combination we love include:

  • parsnip or carrot cake + Simple Goodness Sisters apple pie syrup + sour cream + maple frosting
  • olive oil cake + Simple Goodness Sisters lemon herb syrup + rosemary infused sugar
  • pound cake + Simple Goodness Sisters Berry Sage syrup + lemon curd
  • lemon cake + Simple Goodness Sisters Rhubarb Vanilla Bean syrup + rhubarb compote
  • apple cake + Simple Goodness Sisters Apple Pie syrup + brown sugar whipping cream

 

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Simple Goodness Ice Cream Soda

  • 6 ounces seltzer water
  • 1 large scoop of ice cream or non-dairy alternative
  • 1. 5 ounces Simple Goodness Sisters syrup
  • 5 ounces half and half or non-dairy alternative
  • Simple Goodness Sisters syrup whipping cream
  • Sprinkles

Add a large scoop of ice cream to a chilled pint glass. Pour syrup and half and half over the ice cream. Top to fill with seltzer. Gently stir. Top with whipped cream and garnish with floral sugar or sprinkles.

To make the Simple Goodness Sisters syrup whipping cream: In a chilled metal bowl, add 2 ounces of Simple Goodness Syrup to 16 ounces of heavy whipping cream and whip until soft peaks form. Experiment with ice cream and syrup combinations for fun, seasonal drinks!

Some ice cream + syrup flavor combinations we love include:

  • Apple Pie syrup + salted caramel ice cream
  • Apple Pie syrup + bourbon ice cream
  • Lemon Herb + green tea ice cream
  • Lemon Herb syrup + fruit sorbet
  • Berry Sage + strawberry ice cream
  • Blueberry Lavender syrup + lemon sorbet
  • Blueberry Lavender syrup + huckleberry ice cream
  • Marionberry Mint syrup + chocolate ice cream
  • Rhubarb Vanilla bean syrup + orange creamsicle sherbert
  • Rhubarb Vanilla bean syrup + coconut ice cream

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