Have you ever made fresh strawberry milk? Or even tasted the stuff? If not, my friends, I am here to change your taste buds FOREVER. Let me back up to explain how this came to be.
Aside from water, coffee, and ice tea, milk (these days it is almond milk though!) is the only other beverage I consume. My mom used to always scold me as a kid because I was the one who drank all the milk, and my brother never had enough left for his cereal or my dad for his morning coffee.
Chalk it up to another middle-child trait, I guess.
I chatted with Patrick and he told me how his mom used to make strawberry milk for him as a kid and how much he loved it.
THAT’S IT! I thought! I decided to make strawberry milk and then use it in a variety of ways. The biggest appeal is that it only adds a bit of sweetness to your glass of milk (whatever kind of milk that may be).
How to Make Strawberry Milk
Ingredients:
1 cup of fresh strawberries, chopped
1 cup of water
½ cup of raw sugar (you can use white sugar, but I like brown)
1-½ cups of milk of your choice
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Directions:
Combine the strawberries, water, and sugar in a medium saucepan and heat on medium high until it boils. Once it boils, stir for 15 minutes until the mixture becomes thick.
Use a strainer to pour the mixture into a jar. The syrup will go into the jar and the strawberry chunks will stay in the strainer, save them!
Pour the milk into a jar or container. Add one tablespoon per cup of milk and stir. You can adjust more or less, depending on your desired sweetness. Pour into chilled glasses and top with strawberries! Cheers!
Once you make the strawberry milk, aside from drinking it, you can have fun and combine it with other recipes. Check out my video tutorial where I show how to make it – and then use it as a substitute for water in a cake (or box mix) recipe.
It’s pretty dang fantastic. And again, it’s only lightly sweet, you don’t even need frosting or icing. I used an angel food cake mix and added the strawberry milk and the leftover strawberries from the syrup I made. It was sooo delicious!
You can also cut the slices into smaller bite-size pieces!
You can also use it for smoothies, with ice cream, even freeze into popsicles.
