Homemade iced tea is a refreshing drink, especially on hot summer days! These homemade flavored iced tea recipes give you a lot of variety for many tasty variations on iced tea!
13 Homemade Flavored Iced Tea Recipes
Today, we’re sharing 13 Homemade Flavored Iced Tea Recipes that you can make for your family to keep cool this summer!
These delicious iced tea recipes include lots of tasty variations on iced tea including 2 peach tea recipes, blueberry tea, raspberry iced tea and more! These easy iced tea recipes give you plenty of great options on hot days and also for family get-togethers and parties!
Do you remember Sun Tea? Well the bad news is it’s not very good for you because it can grow harmful bacteria. The good news is you can make refrigerator iced tea at home for pennies and still have the great flavor that sun tea had.
1 Step Refrigerator Iced Tea Recipe
Ingredients
4 tea bags
4 cups water
Instructions
Fill a pitcher or mason jar with water. Hang tea bags in the water. Cover and steep 6-12 hours in the refrigerator. Serve as desired with any flavorings or sweeteners.
Cheap And Easy Flavored Iced Tea Recipe
Ingredients
3 family sized tea bags
4 flavored tea bags (lemon, blueberry, blackberry, mint, orange, cinnamon– Any flavor will work.)
1 cup sugar
Instructions
Pour 4 cups boiling water over the tea bags and allow to steep for 6 minutes. Remove and squeeze the tea bags. Add sugar and stir until dissolved. Pour into a gallon pitcher and add cold water and ice to fill.
Blueberry Iced Tea Recipe
Ingredients
1 (16-oz.) pkg. blueberries (frozen or fresh)
1/2 cup lemon juice
4 cups water
4 cups brewed tea
3/4 cup sugar
Instructions
Bring the blueberries and lemon juice to a boil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and pour through a fine wire-mesh strainer into a bowl, using the back of a spoon to squeeze out the juice. You can freeze the solids in ice cube trays and use for smoothies. Stir 3/4 cup sugar and the blueberry juice mixture into the tea. Pour into a pitcher. Cover and chill 1 hour. Serve over ice. Makes 4 servings.
Raspberry Iced Tea Recipe
Ingredients
1 (16-oz.) pkg. raspberries (frozen or fresh)
4 cups water
3/4 cup sugar
4 cups brewed tea
Instructions
Bring the raspberries and water to a boil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and pour through a fine wire-mesh strainer into a bowl, using the back of a spoon to squeeze out the juice. Add the tea to a pitcher. Stir in the sugar and raspberry juice mixture. Chill 1 hour. Serve over ice.
Copycat Olive Garden Peach Tea Recipe
Ingredients
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
2–3 sliced fresh peaches
6 cups brewed tea
Instructions
Place the sugar, 1 cup of the water and the peaches into a saucepan and cook until they come to a boil. Reduce the heat to a simmer (medium). Crush the peaches as you stir to dissolve the sugar. Once the sugar is dissolved, turn off the burner, cover, and allow the mixture to rest for about 30 minutes. Strain the syrup to remove the fruit pieces. Save the fruit pieces for smoothies. Add the syrup to the tea and refrigerate. Serve over ice.
Orange Iced Tea Recipe
Ingredients
2–3 cups brewed tea, still hot
1 cup sugar
1 orange, sliced
1 tsp. vanilla
Dash cinnamon
Instructions
Place the oranges in the bottom of a pitcher. Add vanilla and cinnamon. Pour the tea into the pitcher while still hot so the sugar dissolves and top off with water. Serve over ice.
Strawberry Iced Tea Recipe
Ingredients
3 cups brewed tea
4 cups fresh or frozen strawberries
1 1/2 cups water
1 1/2 cups sugar (or sweetener of your choice)
Instructions
In a saucepan, boil the strawberries, sugar, and water. Lower the heat and simmer for 10-15 minutes. Cool slightly. Pour the syrup through a fine mesh sieve into a gallon pitcher. You can freeze the solids in ice cube trays and use for smoothies.
Pour the tea into the pitcher with the syrup and stir. Fill the pitcher with cold water. Chill completely. Then serve over ice and/or freshly frozen strawberries.
Easy Peach Tea Recipe
Ingredients
8 cups brewed tea
3/4 cup sugar
11-ounce can peach nectar (found in the fruit juice section or alcoholic drink section)
Instructions
In a 10-12 cup pitcher, pour the ingredients and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Add ice until the pitcher is full. Serve.
Mint Lime Iced Tea Cooler
Ingredients
4 cups brewed tea
1 1/2 cups sugar
Juice from 6 limes
Fresh mint or raspberries for a flavor twist and cute garnish
Instructions
Add the sugar to a one gallon pitcher. Add the brewed tea. Add enough water to equal one gallon of tea. Add the lime juice and a few mint sprigs. Stir until the sugar is dissolved. Serve over ice and garnish with mint sprigs if desired. This mint lime tea is best served cold as iced tea!
Jolly Rancher Iced Tea Recipe
Ingredients
1 tea bag
4 Jolly Rancher Candies, any flavor
Instructions
Brew the tea and Jolly Ranchers in boiling water. Serve hot or cold over ice.
Citrus Iced Tea Recipe
Ingredients
6 cups water
2 regular individual sized tea bags
6 Tbsp. honey or sugar
1 stick cinnamon (which gives it just the right amount of zing)
Juice of 2 lemons
Slices of orange, lemon, lime and/or cucumber.
Instructions
Bring the water to a boil in a large saucepan, with cinnamon and sugar. Remove from the heat and drop in the tea bags. Cover and let it rest for 1 hour. Pour the tea into a pitcher, discarding the cinnamon stick. Stir in lemon juice. Add sliced fruits. Refrigerate overnight or until chilled. Add ice cubes and slices of citrus before serving.
Blackberry Iced Tea Recipe
Ingredients
5 regular sized tea bags
4 cups boiling water
1/4 cup mint leaves, crushed
1/2 cup sugar
2 lbs. blackberries
Instructions
Brew the tea and mint in boiling water. Strain. Stir in the sugar. Purée the blackberries in a blender or food processor. Strain through a fine sieve. Discard the pulp and seeds. Stir the blackberry purée into the tea.
Taste and adjust the sugar as desired. Chill. Serve over ice garnished with mint leaf and 2 or 3 blackberries.
Tropical Orange Iced Tea Recipe
Ingredients
6 cups refrigerator tea
1 2/3 cups pineapple juice
Juice from 1 large lemon
Juice from 1 large orange
1 cup sugar
Instructions
Pour the tea into a pitcher. Add the pineapple juice, lemon juice, orange juice and sugar. Stir to combine. Chill the iced tea until you’re ready to serve.
Some of these Homemade Flavored Iced Tea Recipes are from our Dining On A Dime Cookbook, Volume 2.
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Those recipes look SO GOOD. YUM.
Hi Bea. :)
Hi. You combined 2 of my favorite drinks, tea and fruits.
Can I substitute splenda for the sugar?
Oh yes. You can use any sweetener you would like but if you are making the simple syrup it might not work as well. I’m not sure.
Especially the peach flavored tea sounds really delicious. I have always added artificially flavored peach juice to my tea to get the flavor but I am definitely going to try this instead.
All of those Tea’s look good, Shawn and I love Tea no matter what flavor our favorite right now though is the pina calada I’m sure I’m spelling that wrong but Shawn can see the label it’s to faded for me to see. you can drink it hot or cold it is so good. now that I found a good place to buy frozen Fruit I’ll be sure to make these tea’s Thank you Tawra
I would LOVE your recipe please???
wow these seem so easy, yummy!!
Love your tea recipes
Oh my! I need this in my life. Must print your recipe. Thanks for sharing.
Best Raspberry tea I have ever had. Can’t wait to try the other recipes.
sounds wonderful and will try some of these flavored tea recipes
I enjoyed the Olive garden peach tea. Will be trying the Mint next. Thanks for these recipes. They’re a killer detox.
Can I brew the tea bags then let them sit and use them?
Not quite sure on your question but if you mean can you brew the tea with the tea bags, let them set out then use them again, you can. The tea won’t be quite as strong. If you are meaning can you brew and let the bags set in the tea you can do that too. I leave my teabags in the tea all the time but some people don’t like to do that.
Hi Jill/Tawra, what are family sized tea bags? I’m from the UK and we just have tea bags in one size – enough for a mug/cup of tea.
Karlene a family size tea bag here makes a big pitcher full – about 1-2 liters (or quarts) so usually if it calls for 1 family size bag you can use 3-4 of the size bags that you guys have – depending on how strong you like your tea. Hope that helps.
I do the refrigerator iced tea all the time. My sister’s friend taught us. We use different kinds of tea. So easy, inexpensive and good.
I make the refrigerator tea as well, but I use 4 bags to a half gallon of water. It’s so easy, good and inexpensive. It comes out clear, never cloudy and has a crisp taste. Sometimes I use flavored teas. Peppermint is very refreshing.
HI,
How long would the peach syrup last in the fridge?
I am the only one who would like peach tea.
So, I would brew my tea bag in the morning, once cooled put in the fridge and later have a peach tea!
It will last a week to 10 days in the fridge. You can cut the recipe in half too. Also you can freeze it. You could freeze just the peach syrup in individual portions and then make you tea and pop 1 portion into the tea.