Banana Syrup for Coffee (The One Everyone’s Making)

Homemade banana syrup for coffee with an iced banana latte

Banana is THE home-café flavour of the year. Banana lattes and banana bread lattes are everywhere right now — on café menus, all over social media, and in home kitchens — and the syrup behind them is stupidly simple. This banana syrup for coffee is the one to make first. Ripe bananas simmered in sugar … Read more

Peppermint Mocha Syrup (Homemade, 15 Minutes)

Peppermint mocha syrup poured into an iced mocha latte with candy cane pieces

This peppermint mocha syrup is behind every peppermint mocha of the season: real cocoa and real peppermint, with no red dye and no “flavoring” aftertaste. It tastes like a candy cane melted into rich chocolate — cool, smooth, and unmistakably holiday. Store bottles run $9, but this batch is about $1.40 and makes 12+ drinks … Read more

Homemade Sugar Cookie Syrup for Coffee (Starbucks Copycat)

Homemade sugar cookie syrup for coffee with sugar cookies and vanilla

This is the sugar cookie syrup behind Starbucks’ Sugar Cookie Latte — and the new Sugar Cookie Cream Matcha. It is buttery and vanilla-almond, with that unmistakable taste of the edge of a frosted sugar cookie, and it turns an ordinary coffee into a holiday drink in seconds. Bottled coffee syrups cost $8–12, but this … Read more