I have a friend that is obsessed with Starbucks Iced Passion Tea Lemonades. She finally convinced me to stop by and try one and I have to say it was pretty good.
Personally I prefer Iced Tea Lemonade but this is a nice alternative.
I played around with a few different things and I think I came pretty close with a recipe you can make in just minutes at home.
The tea that I bought from Starbucks was $2.95- and you can make probably 20 of these for about $6.00 at home.
- Lemonade
- Tazo Iced Passion Tea
- 1 Cup Sugar
- Brew 1 quart of water in a Dutch Oven over high heat until boiling. Add one bag of Iced Passion Tea and remove from heat.
- Let brew for about 5 minutes. Remove tea bag and let the tea cool.
- Add 1⅓ cup of lemonade
- Add ⅓ cup simple syrup*
- Serve over ice. At Starbucks they shake the heck out of it in a shaker. You can do the same if you have a plastic Starbucks reusable cup. Just pull the straw out and put your finger over the hole.
- To make the simple syrup: Add one cup of sugar to one cup of water in a saucepan over medium high heat. Stir until all the sugar dissolves. Reduce heat and let simmer about 10 minutes. Add to jar and let cool.
The nice thing is that you can adjust this to suit your tastes. I like a little extra lemony flavor in my drink so I add the tea above to my glass and then I top it off with a splash of lemonade. If you prefer more sweetness, you can certainly be more generous with the simple sugar.
So this takes a little time to make but once I went to Starbucks and noticed the very tiny measurement of tea versus the great big serving of ice for $3.00, I figured I might want to make this one myself.
I found the Tazo tea at Target for $2.99 a box- you get 6 bags in the box. I usually buy Simply Lemonade but Santa Cruz lemonade would also be great or you could try frozen lemonade as well.
I hope you enjoy!
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Have you tried making lemonade? We just did for the first time last week for my girls to have a lemonade stand and it was so good! We got our lemon juice at Costco and used this recipe: http://moneysavingmom.com/2011/07/easy-homemade-lemonade.html. Now I’ll need to try this variation! Thanks!
Abby,
No I didn’t see Crystal’s guest post and yes I have Peach lemonade in the fridge right now. I was planning to post lemonade, strawberry lemonade and peach lemonade recipes. I do this stuff myself though and it takes a lot of time to put it all together
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Thank you so very much for taking the time & patience of putting this recipe together. I like your friend am rather obsessed with this tea from there. I can’t wait to make this on the weekend & I will probably have to make another batch by Monday. Yummy
Oh I hope you like it Jill! I just made a pitcher today. Yummy
You have Simple Syrup with and asterisk but no explanation of what it is. Would you clarify this?
Debra,
The simple syrup recipe is step 6 on the recipe
Just look down a little bit to see it.
I made this!! Actually, I made it several times because it is so good and sweet!! I love this recipe!! Thank you for posting it again!! I used a raspberry tea and it still turned out great!! Thanks again and have a lovely day!!
Instead of simple syrup can I use agave sweetener?
Lydia,
I haven’t tried it but I bet you could!
So is one of these tea bags equivalent to…4 regular? I have a box of the tea but it isn’t the ‘iced’ version.
Helen,
I am not sure what the difference is between the two- I have only purchased the iced version. The iced tea bags are about 3 inches tall and filled about 1/3 of the way up.