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10 Tiki Cocktails for a Tropical Getaway at Home

Here are 10 twists on the typical tiki drink.

(The Regent Cocktail Club in Miami)
Piña Colada

Ingredients

  • 1 oz. unsweetened coconut milk
  • 1 oz. coconut cream
  • 1 oz. spiced rum
  • 1 oz. aged rum
  • 4 pineapple chunks about twice the size of dice
  • 2 cups of crushed ice

Preparation

Add all ingredients in a blender and blend for 40 seconds. Garnish with a tiki umbrella and a fuzzy flamingo–it makes people happy.

(Elegant Affairs )
Mango Basil

Ingredients

  • 3 Tbsps. mango puree (1 ½ cup chopped fresh mango, 1/3 cup sugar, and 1/3 cup water)
  • 2 Tbsps. blanco tequila
  • ¼ oz. clear orange-flavored liqueur
  • ¾ oz. fresh lime juice
  • 2 fresh basil leaves, torn
  • 1 oz. club soda, chilled

Preparation

To make mango puree, place mango, sugar, and water in a blender. Cover and blend on high speed until smooth. Transfer to storage container. Cover and refrigerate up to 3 days. Makes about 1 ½ cups. To make drink, add 1 ½ oz. of the mango puree, tequila, orange-flavored liqueur, lime juice, and torn basil leaves to cocktail shaker. Fill shaker with ice. Cover and shake vigorously. Strain into cocktail glass filled with fresh ice. Top with club soda. Garnish with mango puree and basil leaves.

(John Argento, owner of Surf City in New Jersey)
Blue Lagoon

Ingredients

  • 2 oz. rum (for fishbowl)
  • 1 oz. blue curacao (for fishbowl)
  • 20 oz. lemonade (for fishbowl)
  • 1 ½ oz. light rum (for piña colada)
  • 2 oz. Coco Lopez cream of coconut (for piña colada)
  • 2 oz. pineapple juice (for piña colada)
  • 1 cup crushed ice (for piña colada)

Preparation

Make first half of drink by combining 2 oz. rum, blue curaco, and lemonade in a fish bowl filled with ice. Then, make pina colada by pouring 1 ½ oz. light rum, cream of coconut, and pineapple juice into a blender with one cup of crushed ice. Blend until smooth and pour into a Collins glass. Place glass inside fishbowl.

(Head bartender Mike Ryan of Sable Kitchen & Bar in Chicago)
Hot to Trot

Ingredients

  • 2 oz. aged cachaca
  • ½ oz. mango puree
  • ¾ oz. fresh lemon juice
  • ½ oz. Cointreau

Preparation

Shake and strain into a Collins glass. Add an umbrella.

READ: 10 Cool Cachaca Cocktails To Try This Summer

(The Mirage in Las Vegas)
Iced Chi Chi

Ingredients

  • 1.5 oz. Ketal One Vodka
  • 1.5 oz. coconut water
  • 0.5 oz. cream of coconut
  • 2 oz. pineapple juice
  • 0.5 oz. Disaronno Amaretto

Preparation

Combine all ingredients, except amaretto, in a Boston shaker with ice. Shake and strain over fresh ice and float amaretto on top.

(Monte Carlo in Las Vegas)
Banana Guava Shandy

Ingredients

  • 2 oz. vodka
  • 1 oz. banana liqueur
  • 3 oz. guava nectar
  • wheat ale

Preparation

Add vodka, banana liqueur, and guava nectar in a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake. Pour ingredients in a chilled Collins glass. Top with wheat ale.

(Three Dots and a Dash in Illinois)
A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea

Ingredients

  • ¾ oz. coffee syrup
  • ¼ oz. Demerara Syrup
  • ¾ oz. lime juice
  • 1 oz. pineapple juice
  • 1 ½ oz. white rum
  • ½ oz. Cruzan Black Strap Rum
  • 2 oz. granulated sugar
  • 1 pineapple slice
  • coffee beans

Preparation

Add syrups, rums, juices, and sugar in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously for 10 seconds. Double strain into a cocktail glass. Stir until dissolved. Garnish with pineapple slice and coffee beans.

(Mixologist Daniel Thomas)
Tiki Swizzle

Ingredients

  • 3 oz. Sailor Jerry Rum
  • 2 oz. pineapple juice
  • 1 oz. port
  • 1 oz. simple syrup
  • 1 oz. fresh lime juice
  • 2 dashes Peychaud Bitters
  • 2 dashes Angostura Bitters
  • 1 pineapple slice

Preparation

Combine ingredients, shake, and strain over crushed ice. Garnish with a pineapple slice and a paper umbrella.

(Elegant Affairs)
Spiked Coconut Smoothie

Ingredients

  • 2 oz. coconut-infused vodka
  • 2 oz. coconut water
  • 2 oz. Coco Lopez Coconut Milk
  • 1 fresh coconut with top cut off
  • 1 fresh flower for garnish

Preparation

Combine vodka, coconut water, and coconut milk. Add in a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake. Pour into a fresh coconut. Add a flower for garnish.

(David Solmonson and Lesly Jacobs Solmonson, author of “The 12 Bottle Bar”)
Not-So-Blue-Hawaii

Ingredients

  • 3 oz. pineapple juice
  • ½ oz. strained, freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • ½ oz. simple syrup
  • ½ oz. orange liqueur
  • ¾ oz. white rum
  • ¾ oz. vodka
  • 1 pineapple slice
  • 1 cherry

Preparation

Add ingredients to glass over crushed ice in given order. Stir gently to combine. Garnish with a cherry and pineapple slice.


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