Raspberry Lemonade

I made this for our Mother's Day cook out. Everyone loved it. This is a recipe from ChiquiNO - a caterer and cooking teacher in New Orleans. I made one tweak - I added sparkling pink lemonade to the pitcher because I didn't make enough lemonade! Worked great.

• Ready In: 15 mins
• Serves: 6

Ingredients

• 2  cups water
• 1  cup sugar
• 4  lemons, juice of
• 1 1⁄2 cups raspberries
• 1 (20 ounce) bottle  sparkling  pink lemonade (optional)
• 1  lemon, sliced thin

Directions

1. Make simple syrup by boiling 2 cups water with one cup sugar until sugar dissolves.
2. Cool completely.
3. Fill a crystal pitcher with crushed ice.
4. Stir the juice of 4 lemons into the simple syrup.
5. Pour this over the ice.
6. Stir well.
7. Add more water if needed to fill the pitcher.
8. Stir in the raspberries.
9. This is the point I added the sparklin lemonade.
10. Float thin rounds of lemon on top.