Hey there.
Lacey here with A Sweet Pea Chef, and I don't know about you, but sometimes I just want
a fruity soda to just kick back and relax with.
But problem is, so many sodas out there are just loaded with sugar or artificial ingredients
and artificial colors and all that junk.
So I figured, let's go ahead and make our own homemade caffeine-free sodas using fresh
fruit, and have soda any time we want.
All right.
So, let's get started.
So, let's talk bottles.
While you don't need any bottles for this recipe, you could just make the drink and
then drink it.
If you want to store it in the fridge to have later, I recommend getting a bottle that really
seals tightly, so that it keeps all those bubbles in.
I can leave the link for the ones that I'm using in the description below, if you want
to check them out.
And I am using a little bit of raw honey to sweeten these drinks, to make it just a little
bit sweet.
I'm not using any artificial sweeteners, so what instead we're going to do is make a simple
syrup using just water and some raw honey.
So, in a saucepan, we're going to add in a little bit of water, and then we're going
to add in just a little bit of raw honey.
And then we're going to stir this together and cook it over medium heat until it becomes
fully combined and all the honey dissolves.
That is your simple syrup.
Now, what you want to do is you want to remove this from the heat and allow it to cool, and
then this, you can add into the sodas we're going to make, to add a little bit of sweetener.
We'll be using fresh fruit and only fresh fruit to color and flavor our sodas.
And this is going to make it so we don't have to use any artificial flavors or colors or
anything, and we're just going to have awesome-looking fresh fruit sodas.
So, let's start off with strawberries.
So, we're going to get a bunch of strawberries and add them to a blender.
And then, we're going to blend it, not all the way.
We just want to break down the strawberries so that they're pretty chopped.
Then, we're going to transfer that into a fine mesh sieve, and what we're going to do
is press this all the way through, in order to get all of that juice out.
So, that's basically our condensed strawberry juice we're going to use for our strawberry
soda.
So, now we're going to use that juice.
We're going to pour it into the bottom of our bottle.
We're going to use roughly a half of a cup of juice for about a half of a liter of our
carbonated water.
And then, we're going to slowly pour in our seltzer water or our carbonated water, all
the way almost to the top.
We're going to do this slowly, because the bubbles do tend to get very bubbly, and it
might bubble over you.
So, you just want to do it very slowly to get it as high as you can before the bubbles
take over.
And then, we're going to add in a little bit of our simple honey syrup, and this is just
going to sweeten it a little bit.
You don't need a whole lot.
Strawberries are pretty sweet to begin with, so just do a little bit to taste, and then
we're going to fill the remainder up with the remainder of our seltzer water until you
get it all the way to the top.
Then, seal the bottle, place it in the fridge in order to get it nice and cold for later.
This caffeine-free homemade strawberry soda is so delicious and beautiful.
It's just like strawberries with bubbles.
It's so good.
For our carbonated water, you have a few options.
You can use club soda, seltzer water, or sparkling mineral water.
I like using seltzer water because it's basically just water with bubbles, and it doesn't have
any added minerals or anything, so the flavor is very clean.
Next, we're going to be making a homemade orange soda, which is super yummy.
So, instead of blending our oranges, instead we're going to squeeze them and get as much
juice out of them as we can.
Then, if you don't mind the pulp, you can just use this as is, or if you want to remove
all of the pulp and have it more smooth, you can press this orange juice through a fine
mesh sieve, and then get all of the pulp-free juice from the bottom.
Then we're going to pour that juice into the bottom of our bottle, follow that up with
our seltzer water, almost all the way to the top.
Then, add a little bit of our simple honey syrup, and then we're going to finish it off
with the remainder of our seltzer water.
Remember to do it as slowly as you can so that the bubbles do not flow over the bottle.
Then, seal it on up, place it in the fridge to get cold.
The citrus with the orange mixed with the bubbles just makes this orange soda so refreshing
and so delicious.
Next, we're going to be making a lemon lime homemade soda, which is my kid's favorite
flavor.
So, in order to get our juice, we're going to juice some lemons and some limes, just
like we did with our oranges.
Again, if you want the pulp, no worries.
Just put this right on into the bottle, or you can press it through a sieve in order
to remove any pulp.
I like to use about a three to one ratio of lemon to lime, because the lemon has less
of a bitter flavor.
So, I use three lemons to every one lime in order to make this soda.
Now, add our lemon lime juice to the bottom of our bottle, and then we're going to follow
it up with the seltzer water.
Then, add a little bit of our simple honey syrup.
You're going to want to add probably more into this one because lemon and lime are quite
sour to begin with.
So, it's okay to add a little bit more into this one than the other ones.
It's just going to be based off of what the flavor is and what you like.
And then, fill the rest of the bottle with the seltzer water, making sure to do it as
slowly as possible.
Then, seal the bottle on up, place it in the fridge to get cold and to enjoy later.
The combination of the lemon and the lime and the soda makes this drink so yummy and
I hope you love it too.
Okay.
So, you know we got to make some homemade grape soda, right?
Grape is, like, the best flavor sodas.
So, in order to do this, I used black grapes, but you can use any grapes.
The black grapes, I've found are the best flavor for the soda and they have the prettiest
color.
So, we're going to add our grapes to the blender, just like we did with the strawberries, and
we're going to blend it until it's broken down.
We don't want to puree it here.
We just want to blend it until it's broken down.
It's going to make it easier to transfer into our sieve, and then press through to get that
tasty grape juice into the bottom of our bowl.
Then, we're going to transfer that into the bottom of our bottle, fill the bottle on up
with our seltzer water, add a little bit of our honey syrup if you want.
Make sure to taste it though and see, because the grapes are already pretty sweet, so you
might not even have to add any of the additional sweetener.
And then, fill the bottle all the way up to the top with the remainder of the seltzer
water.
Then, close the lid tightly and place it in the fridge to get cold.
This caffeine-free homemade grape soda is so sweet and pretty, and it's just really
cool to have grape soda in the house.
It's a family favorite.
Even Dustin likes it and he does not like grape flavor anything.
So, it's a very good keeper.
Another great fruit to make into a soda is blackberries, because it has just an awesome
color and flavor.
So next, we're going to make some blackberry homemade soda.
So, like with our strawberries and our grapes, we're going to add the blackberries to the
blender and blend it on up until it's chopped, not pureed.
Then, we're going to transfer that into our sieve and press through in order to get our
blackberry syrup.
You might notice that the juice from the blackberries is a little thick, and this might also happen
with your strawberries too.
What you'll want to do if it gets too thick, is just add a little bit of water to loosen
it up to get to be the consistency of, like, the orange juice or the lemon juice.
Once you've finished with the blackberry juice, go ahead and transfer that into the bottom
of our bottle.
Then, we're going to fill up most of the way with our seltzer water.
Add any of our syrup that we've made with the raw honey and the water if you need.
And then, we're going to fill the rest up with our seltzer water.
Then, cap it tightly and place it in the fridge to get nice and cold.
This caffeine-free homemade blackberry soda is really cool because it's really pretty,
and it replaces one of my old-time favorites that has a ton of sugar in it.
So, big win for here.
So, all five of these caffeine-free homemade sodas have no refined sugar, have so much
less sugar than store bought sodas, have no artificial flavors or artificial colors, and
they are just so tasty and fresh.
They're a great replacement to regular soda that you can get at the store.
Plus, can we talk about how pretty they are?
I mean, how cool is that to use fresh fruit to flavor and color your sodas?
It's just super cool, rather than using all sorts of artificial junk.
Thanks so much for watching and make sure to let me know in the comments below which
flavor is your favorite, or if there's another flavor that you want me to make next.
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Thanks so much.
I'll see you next time.
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