Blackberry Lemonade

Yesterday for Cliff and Pam's shower, I made Blackberry Lemonade. I found this recipe at Taste of Home. It was SO good and pretty easy to make, so I thought that I would share the recipe with y'all...sorry that I don't have a better picture of it, but I didn't think of it at the time...and it went pretty quickly! I doubled the recipe since we had a large crowd coming over. Hope y'all enjoy it as much as we did!

Blackberry Lemonade

Ingredients:

• 4 cups water, divided
• 1 cup Granulated Pure Cane Sugar
• 1 cup lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon grated lemon peel
• 1 cup blackberries
• 1 to 2 drops blue food coloring, optional ( I omitted this step)
  

Directions:

In a large saucepan, bring 2 cups water and sugar to a boil. Boil for 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from the heat. Stir in the lemon juice, lemon peel and remaining water; cool slightly.

In a blender, combine 1 cup of lemon mixture and the blackberries; cover and process until blended. Strain and discard seeds. Pour blackberry mixture and remaining lemon mixture into a pitcher; stir well. Add food coloring if desired. Refrigerate until chilled. Serve over ice.

Yield: about 1-1/2 quarts.