Piña Colada

Material Components

  • 5 ounces pineapple juice
  • 1 ounce coconut cream
  • 2 ounces lightly aged blended rum
  • 8 ounces crushed ice

Vessel

tall glass or Tiki mug

Garnish

cocktail cherry speared to a pineapple chunk

Preparation

  1. Put everything in a blender.
  2. Blend at high speed for fifteen seconds.
  3. Pour unstrained into a tall glass or Tiki mug.
  4. Garnish with a cocktail cherry speared to a pineapple chunk.

Notes

This is the cocktail that inspired Rupert Holmes's Escape and set the stage for a whole genre of saccharine-sweet blender concoctions. But it's a Trojan boat drink, delicious enough to lead unsuspecting beachgoers inexorably into the dark and mysterious realm of Tiki.

I like to use an aged blended rum (Bully Boy's The Rum Cooperative, Volume 1, in this case), but it does darken the color a bit. If you want the classic white drink, go with a light rum instead.