Recipe for Kool Aid pop

This is the recipe I use to make my Kool-Aid Sodastream pop.  Feel free to copy it and make your own.  :)

This recipe makes two of the old bottles of Sodastream.  If you kept any of the old bottles (or the caps, then this will help you out).

3.75 cups of sugar
1.75 cups of water *
.5 tbsp liquid sweetener (in this case, liquid Splenda or sucralose).  [This is the same sweetener as the old Sodastream syrup.]
16 packets of various Kool-Aid flavors.

You want to get a pan that you can use a whisk with.  Start off by boiling the water.  You want a nice rolling boil for this.  You will be creating what is commonly referred to as a "Simple Syrup."  Once the water is boiling, slowly pour in your sugar and be stirring it as you add it.  You do not want sugar to burn on the bottom of the pan, otherwise you are essentially creating caramel.   As you add the sugar, your mixture will look cloudy.  You want to keep stirring until it looks clear.  (It'll have a brownish tinge, but that's fine.  Once it looks clear, the sugar will be dissolved into the water.  As you have more sugar in the water than water itself, you have created a supersaturated solution.  And when it cools, it'll be a syrup.

Now, with the syrup, you want to add your Kool-Aid and sweetener.  Keep stirring those in until they are completely dissolved.

Now, find two smaller containers and divide the syrup equally into those containers.  (If you are using old Sodastream containers, do not transfer until the syrup is cooled).  Once it is cooled, you can use it.  I typically find that I end up using the taller line in the cap (2 oz) for the .5 L sized bottles.  I liked more flavor in my pop, so I did that before anyways.

I hope you enjoy!!

* I add liquid caffeine to my pop to make caffeinated beverages.  The more liquid caffeine you add, the less water you add on it.  Personally, I go with 1/3 cup of liquid caffeine (which with the solution I buy, equals roughly 59 mg / bottle of caffeine).  This is slightly more than Mountain Dew at 54 mg / bottle, but less than coffee 83 mg / serving.