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Your happy hour will get tastier with these rum drink recipes. This versatile drink can be the basis for tasty combinations with fruits, liqueurs, syrups and aromatic leaves. And the best part, the preparations are easy and quick. Choose your favorite version and be sure to test it out:
Contenus
1. Daiquiri
Ingredients
- 80 ml white rum
- 40 ml lemon juice
- 30 ml sugar syrup
- Ice to taste
Directions
- Place the rum in a cocktail shaker;
- Add the lemon juice and sugar syrup;
- Insert the ice cubes, close the cocktail shaker and shake well;
- Pour only the liquid into a well-chilled glass;
- Serve immediately.
2. Cuba Libre
Ingredients
- Ice to taste
- 60 ml of rum Bacardi Prata
- Coca-Cola
- ¼ of Tahiti lemon
Directions
- Fill a long glass with ice and stir to chill the glass;
- Remove excess liquid before starting to prepare the drink;
- Add the rum;
- Add the Coke to the inner wall of the glass carefully to keep the bubbles in;
- Run the lemon over the rim of the glass and then squeeze out the juice;
- Stir lightly with spoon to incorporate the juice;
- Taste.
3. Strawberry Mojito
Ingredients
- 5 chopped strawberries
- 5 tablespoons sugar
- 20 ml lemon juice
- 3 mint leaves
- 80 ml white rum
- Ice to taste
- 100 ml sparkling water
Method of preparation
- Place the chopped strawberries in a cocktail shaker;
- Add the sugar and use a punch to macerate well;
- Insert the lemon juice, mint leaves and rum;
- Add few ice cubes and cap. Shake well;
- Transfer the mixture to a tall, wide glass;
- Top up with more ice cubes and the sparkling water;
- Mix lightly with spoon;
- Decorate the rim of the glass with a strawberry and enjoy.
4. Cuban Mojito
Ingredients
- 10 mint leaves
- 20 ml sugar syrup
- 20 ml Tahiti lemon juice
- 50 ml white rum
- Crushed ice to taste
- Soda water
How to prepare
- Pat the mint leaves to release the aromas, then pour into a tall glass;
- Pour in the sugar syrup, lemon juice and rum. Mix with the spoon;
- Fill the glass with the crushed ice and mix lightly with the spoon;
- Complete the glass with a little sparkling water and more crushed ice;
- Serve immediately.
5. Coconut Mojito
Ingredients
- 10 large mint leaves
- 25 ml sugar simple syrup
- 50 ml of Malibu
- 35 ml of white rum
- 15 ml lemon juice
- Ice to taste
- Soda water
- 2 lemon slices
- 10 ml of Curaçau
Directions
- Place the mint leaves in a large glass. Crush them at the bottom of the glass;
- Add the sugar syrup, Malibu, white rum and lemon juice. Mix;
- Insert the ice and mix again;
- Pour in the sparkling water until almost full. Stir gently;
- Add the lemon slices and settle in the bottom of the glass;
- To finish, add the Curaçau and enjoy.
6. Sweet dream
Ingredients
- Ice to taste
- 40 ml of rum Oro
- 30 ml Baileys or liqueur
- 20 ml chocolate cookie syrup
- 1.5 ml mint
Directions
- Place the ice in a triangular cup and allow to cool;
- In a cocktail shaker, add the rum, Baileys, syrup, mint and ice. Cover and shake well;
- Pour the contents of the cocktail shaker into the glass, passing through a sieve so that no more ice will fall out;
- Now it’s just tasting.
7. Dark ‘n’ stormy
Ingredients
- Ice to taste
- 50 ml ginger syrup
- 10 ml lemon juice
- 100 ml of Club Soda or sparkling water
- 2 dashes of angostura bitter
- 50 ml dark rum
Directions
- Fill a large glass with the ice cubes;
- Add the ginger syrup and lemon juice;
- Top up with the Club Soda and stir lightly with a slotted spoon;
- Add the angostura and dark rum;
- If desired, garnish with a slice of the lemon on the rim of the glass;
- Serve.
8. Piña colada
Ingredients
- 100 grams of ripe pineapple, chopped
- 60 ml of Prata rum
- 30 ml of coconut water
- 40 ml of Lopez Homemade Coconut Cream
- Crushed ice to taste
Directions
- In a blender, place the chopped pineapple, the rum, the coconut water and the coconut cream. Blend until smooth;
- Add the crushed ice and blend again until the ice stones break up;
- Transfer to glass of your choice and if desired garnish with mint leaves and pineapple slice;
9. Blue Hawaiian
Ingredients
- Ice to taste
- 60 ml white rum
- 30 ml of Curaçau blue
- 30 ml of coconut cream
- 60 ml pineapple juice
Directions
- Put ice in the cocktail shaker and in the glass in which you will serve the drink;
- In the cocktail shaker, pour the rum, the Curaçau, the coconut cream and the pineapple juice. Stopper and shake well;
- Transfer with a strainer to the bowl with ice;
- If desired, garnish with a pineapple slice, mint leaves and another dash of Curaçau blue;
- Serve with a straw.
10. Frozen banana daiquiri
Ingredients
- 60 ml white rum
- 30 ml banana or orange liqueur
- 20 ml lemon juice
- 1/2 ripe dwarf banana
- 1 glass full of ice
Directions
- In a blender, place the rum, liqueur, lemon juice and banana. Grind until smooth;
- Insert the ice and use the « pulse » function of the blender. Blend until the ice breaks up, but do not let it dissolve completely;
- Pour into a glass and enjoy.
With so many cool options, you can vary the preparations and innovate every day. And if you like to venture into the world of drinks, check out these vodka drinks to impress your guests.
