This light and refreshing Black Cherry Lemonade recipe is sugar-free, sparkling, simple to make and it will cool you off all year long!
I love making easy, refreshing drinks for my whole family to enjoy without all of the artificial colors, flavors and sweeteners. My kids love that this black cherry lemonade is "sparkling" too, and it's much healthier than soda.
If you are looking for more delicious drink recipes, you will love this Coconut Water Ginger Lemonade, Blood Orange Green Tea Chia Energy Drink, Eggnog Latte, Bulletproof Hot Chocolate and of course my Spiked Apple Cider!
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Why You Should Make This Black Cherry Lemonade
I love all of the Vintage Sparkling Waters! There are 6 flavors: Cucumber Melon, Lime, Lemon, Original, Pink Grapefruit and Coconut. I personally love the Cucumber Melon and Pink Grapefruit but I decided to use the good-old-original one for this lemonade.
These Vintage Sparkling Waters are just what I am looking for in a drink. They are made with no artificial colors, flavors, sweeteners or dyes, no high fructose corn syrup or sugar, and no calories.
Let's face it, sometimes you just need something bubbly, right? And we all know that sodas and diet sodas are not the answer!
Now let's get back to this black cherry lemonade...
It's pretty right?
I'll be honest, I once had a lemonade-like cocktail at a restaurant and they added sprigs of thyme so I kind of copied that. Thyme adds a subtle "earthiness" to the drink, which I like, but you can definitely omit it.
The lemons make it a little sour so I feel like you need to add some sweetness. I used a small amount of monk fruit, but you can use stevia or also an unrefined sugar or even a little honey if you'd like.
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Sparkling Black Cherry Lemonade
Ingredients
- zest of ½ lemon
- 1 cup black cherries pitted
- 4 lemons squeezed and juiced
- 2 cups water
- 2 cups Vintage Original Sparkling Water
- ½ teaspoon liquid Monk Fruit or sugar alternative of your choice
Instructions
- Add cherries, lemon zest and lemon juice to blender and blend until smooth.
- Pour into a pitcher.
- Add water and Vintage Sparkling water and mix well.
- Add stevia if desired and stir again.
- Chill in the refrigerator for an hour.
Kara
So fun with the sparkling water, and it's a beautiful color! We'll be making it often this summer. 🙂
Jessica Burgess
Mmm! This was so good. So good, that my boys are wondering how they can make it to sell it at the farmers market this year! Haha. Thank you!
Jamie
Simple, easy and delicious! We all loved this lemonade!
rach
this lemonade is amazing and my friends really enjoyed it! thank you for sharing this recipe
Lauren Kelly
I am so happy you liked it! Thank you!
Agnes
I love the idea of adding sparkling water to lemonade, this sounds so delicious! We’re big cherry fans so I gotta try this!
Lauren Kelly
Enjoy, Agnes!
Taylor
This was the perfect mocktail to serve at our Memorial Day get together this past weekend. It was super refreshing and the flavor was just great. Everyone loved it!
Lauren Kelly
Glad it was a hit!
Alida
I'm a huge sparkling water fan, so I'm looking forward to trying Vintage...especially to make your tasty lemonade. It look so good!!
Kim Beaulieu
This is such a fabulous recipe, I love anything cherry. It's my favourite. Your photos are rocking, I want to reach through the screen & grab a tall frosty one.
Colleen (Souffle Bombay)
Want!! Loving this and I think it would be fabulous as a cocktail with a lil vodka thrown in! Cheers!
Carolyn
That looks so pretty AND refreshing. And healthy...so I am totally down with this!
Laurie
I used frozen black cherries and I only had berry sparkling water, but it’s so good! It made it a little more “frosty” treat like and loved by all. Thanks for a great place to start with my new obsession with cherries.
Lauren Kelly
What a great idea, thanks for sharing with us!
Anita
This sounds right up my alley for these hot summer days! Love the thyme!
Susan
Vintage is the best, we always had it at home growing up (and still do now). This drink is gorgeous! It's perfect on a hot day and that touch of thyme sounds perfect.
Paula - bell'alimento
Lemonade is best served in a mason jar.