Our Favorite Caribbean Drink Recipes
Mudslide
1 oz. Absolut vodka
1 oz. Kahlua
1 oz. Baileys Original Irish Cream
Mix to a smoothie consistency in a blender with 10 oz. of ice; pour into a hurricane glass and add a straw. Drizzle a Kahlua floater down the straw. Dust with cinnamon; garnish with a cherry.
Karel's Special
½ oz. Blue Curacao
½ oz. vodka
½ oz. Coco Lopez
1 oz. pineapple juice
Mix it up and pour over ice, shake and serve.
Painkiller (won't disclose proportions)
Premium dark rum
Cream of coconut
Pineapple juice
Orange juice
Fresh-grated Grenadian nutmeg
Elvis' Rum Punch
1 oz. orange juice
1 oz. pineapple juice
1 oz. guava juice
½ oz. lime juice
3 dashes of bitters
3 oz. Mount Gay rum
Amaretto
Nutmeg
In a shaker, add first six ingredients. Add ice and stir or shake. Pour into a tall glass. Add an amaretto floater and sprinkle with nutmeg.
Pina Colada (blender full)
48 oz. pineapple juice (canned)
15 oz. Coconut cream
Rum to taste
Maraschino cherry and/or pineapple chunk
Mix pineapple juice and coconut cream. Don't blend with ice. Instead, freeze the mix, stirring occasionally until frozen or use an old-fashioned ice-cream maker to freeze the mixture. Pour rum to taste in a glass and add frozen mix. Garnish with cherry or pineapple chunk (or both).
Mojito
12 mint leaves with stems
1 tsp. sugar
2 oz. citrus rum
2 oz. fresh citrus juice (lemon/lime)
2 oz. soda water
In a Collins glass, place mint and sugar. Crush the mint using a muddler. Add rum and citrus. Mix again with muddler. Finish with soda water and crushed ice.
Chi Chi
½-cup ice
2 oz. vodka
½ oz. Blue Curacao
½ oz. cream of coconut
½-cup fresh pineapple
1 scoop vanilla ice cream
Pour all ingredients into blender. Blend until smooth. Pour into a chilled margarita or highball glass. Garnish with pineapple chunk.
Killer Bee
It's a secret!
Rum Swizzle
4 oz. Goslings Black Seal rum
4 oz. Barbados rum (or any amber rum)
2 oz. Triple Sec
Juice of 2 lemons
5 oz. pineapple juice
5 oz. orange juice
2 oz. Bermuda Falernum or simple sugar syrup
4 dashes Angostura bitters
Mix in a pitcher with crushed ice and shake vigorously until frothing head appears. Strain into cocktail glass. Serves 6.