Strawberry Pina Colada
This strawberry pina colada is fruity, summery and sweet – it makes you feel like you’re in the Caribbean! The perfect summer cocktail.
Helloooo, pina colada! Well, strawberry pina colada. One of my favourite cocktails, made even more fruity and summery – and even more beautiful, too. Would anything be more impressive for a summer party than appearing with a big jug of strawberry pina colada?!
The one and only time I’ve been on an all-inclusive holiday was when we went to Mexico on our honeymoon two years ago, and we drank so many amazing cocktails. They were free – it would have been rude not to. Especially since we could get them right from the swim-up bar and sip them in the pool in the glorious sunshine (can you tell I thought this was the coolest thing ever?!).
The cocktail menu at our hotel was pretty long so we tried lots of different cocktails, but a pina colada definitely stood out as one of my favourites. It’s not a drink I’d had very often before (if I’m honest, I usually just buy cheap wine… don’t judge me), but it became a new favourite. Coconut and pineapple – perfect tropical flavours.
A pina colada always makes me feel like I’m in the Caribbean (and considering gloomy Hertfordshire is about as far from Barbados as you can get, in all senses of the word, that’s really saying something).
I decided to put my own spin on the classic pina colada recipe, and added fresh strawberries for colour and sweetness. The resulting strawberry pina colada was a huge success! I actually think you could add all sorts of fruits to the classic pina colada recipe – maybe kiwi fruit or mango instead?
I definitely feel I need to research this further. For science.
Strawberry pina colada
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- 140 g fresh pineapple pieces (~ 1 cup)
- 200 g fresh strawberries (~ 1 1/2 cups)
- 4 tbsp tinned coconut milk (I used light)
- 50 ml white rum (~ 1/4 cup) – or more to taste
- 25 – 30 ice cubes
Instructions
- Add the pineapple, strawberries, coconut milk and rum to a high-powered blender, and blend until smooth. Add the ice, and blend again until no large lumps of ice remain. Serve immediately.
- Alternatively, if you don’t have a high-powered blender that can cope with blending ice, just blend the first four ingredients together, and serve over ice.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information is approximate, and will depend on your exact ingredients. Please calculate your own nutritional values if you require accuracy for health reasons.
Note: Nutritional information is approximate, and will depend on exactly what ingredients you choose. Information above is for 1/3 of the recipe (1 drink).
Pimm’s is another must-have cocktail for your summer party!
There are so many great cocktail recipes on the bar.com. Great for some summer inspiration.
Yummy, these look delish! I’d love to try one! They remind me of Mexico too – those swim up cocktail bars! Ahh heaven!
Yum these look great – I could just drink one now!
I absolutely adore all the fresh fruit in this cocktail. I have to make it for my next Ladies Night.
I feel like I need to have a summer party just so that I can make this srawberry pinac colada. Another great recipe from the bar.
I know exactly the feeling – my one and only all-inclusive holiday was a trip to the Dominican Republic earlier this year and the swim up bar for frozen cocktails was the best (even if I mostly stuck to mocktails). This actually sounds just like one of the cocktails they had there so I must try it some time! Yours straws are so pretty by the way, and they couldn’t be a better match for this drink :)
It feels like such a luxury doesn’t it! :) And thanks! They’re from a company called My Little Day, they have so much amazing stuff!
Becca, I am going to share my world famous Pina Colada recipe with you. Feel free to use it. Get a box of the colada mix. Pour 6 ozs of rum and 4 pkgs of the mix into the blender, add 1/2 small can of crushed pineapple along with 1/2 thejuice plus 6 ozs of milk. Top with ice and blend. keep adding ice cubes until they no longer sink. Pour into a glass and top with 1 tsp of Myer’s dark rum.
Interesting! I’ve never seen a pina colada mix before. I usually just use rum, coconut milk and pineapple!
This totally looks like my morning smoothies! But it would probably be a good idea to save this for after work ;)
Hehe to be honest if you skip the rum this would actually make a pretty healthy breakfast! ;)
This sounds great! Im working on a virgin version atm!
It would be great without the rum! :)
I love a pina colada – this recipe looks pretty simple as well. Perfect for BBQ’s this Summer! xx
Hmm these sound amazing!!! Perfect for the summer days and so easy to make! I’ve just purchased a blender so be rude not to make some x
Haha definitely rude not to ;)