Homemade Luzianne Tea Snowballs + Snowball Syrup Recipes!

Beat the heat with homemade Luzianne Tea Snowballs.

When it’s 95 degrees in the shade, we’ve got our ways to cool down. We sip lots of iced tea, and we head to the snowball stand! These seasonal pop-ups appear in neighborhoods all across the Gulf South every spring and summer, serving up fluffy snowballs (aka sno-balls) drizzled with delicious flavored syrups. Our version of this iconic frosty treat is made with frozen cubes of Luzianne Tea – just toss them in a blender to make “shaved” ice  and top with one of our easy-to-make syrups (store-bought is fine, too).

Luzianne Tea Snowballs with Blueberry Lime Syrup

Ingredients:

4 cups cold water
4 Luzianne Family Size tea bags 
Blueberry Lime Syrup (recipe follows) 

Directions: 

1. Boil the water, add the tea bags and steep for 5 minutes, then remove tea bags and let the tea cool slightly.
2. Pour the tea into 3 standard ice cube trays and freeze for at least 2 hours.
3. Blend the frozen tea cubes in a high speed blender on low speed until light and fluffy.
4. Spoon the frozen tea into glasses or cups and pour the syrup over the top, to taste.

Blueberry Lime Syrup (Makes 1 cup)

Ingredients: 

1 cup simple syrup (equal parts sugar to water)
2 cups blueberries, fresh or frozen
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
½ teaspoon lime zest

Directions:

1. 1. Combine the simple syrup and blueberries in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil
   2. Remove from heat and add the lime juice and zest. Let stand for 30 minutes, or longer for a stronger flavor. 
   3. Strain through a fine mesh strainer into a resealable container; discard the solids. 
   4. Store the syrup in a sealed container in the fridge for up to 10 days.

Looking for more flavors? We’ve created lots of delicious, Southern-inspired syrup recipes:

• 🍑 Spiced Peach Syrup – Summery sweet peach flavor with a hint of spicy heat.
• 🍓 Spiced Strawberry Syrup – That sweet strawberry flavor of summer.
• 🍇 Raspberry Syrup – Tart berry flavor that pairs great with tea.
• 🌿 Strong Mint Syrup – Minty fresh and cooling, just right for hot days.
• 🍯 Ginger Honey Syrup – An invigorating blend of sweet and spicy.
• 🌺 Hibiscus Syrup – Tart, sweet and bright pink!.

A frosty bite of snowball history.

Snowballs were born in the Crescent City in the 1930s, when Ernest Hansen invented an electric ice-shaving machine and opened Hansen’s Sno-Bliz on Tchoupitoulas Street. Unlike a crunchy snow cone, a New Orleans snowball is made with ultra-fine, fluffy ice that soaks up sweet syrup like a sponge and melts on your tongue. Fast-forward to now, and the good news is you can make nice and fluffy snowballs with your blender!