If you're planning a New Year's Party or just serving up tea or hot toddies to your friends in the cold weather, a little sweetness is in order. You can add a little visual interest and a little sweetness to those drinks by making your own flavored honey sticks, and all you need are some colored straws, the honey, and flavored extracts. In a few minutes, you'll have flavored honey sticks that you can use for grown-up and kid beverages alike.
The method is pretty simple?you'll need a bendy straw to do it, and you can just trim off the bendy part and put the open end into the jar of honey or up to the jar's pour spout. If you have a narrow funnel that can pour into the straw body, that will work too. Just fill the straw about 4/5 of the way with honey, and then use a dropper to add a few drops of the flavored extract you want, whether it's lemon, vanilla, almond, peppermint, or anything else you want to try.
The folks at Serious Eats suggest leaving one end taped shut and the other end open, so you can put the sticks into a container tape-end down and your guests can turn them over and squeeze the honey out, but you could seal both ends of the straw with some parchment paper or freezer paper and a quick hit on either end with an iron. That way they're more like the honey sticks you would get in a store, and they'll keep much longer. Then your kids or guests can grab a flavor they like, add it to their tea or drink, and enjoy. Have a better way to make the sticks? Let's hear it in the comments below.
The Secret Ingredient (Honey): Homemade Honey Sticks | Serious Eats
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