PREP TIME 5 min
Cocktail umbrellas? Check! Colourful garlands and leis? Check! We’re dishing up all the island style tiki vibes with this cocktail that’s full of tropical flavour. So, line up the Hawaiian playlist, invite your friends and get ready to hula.
You’ll have everyone going with the Honolulu flow with this easy Blue Hawaiian cocktail recipe. Let’s get shaking:
Pour the rum into a cocktail shaker with a good handful of ice.
Add the blue curacao, cream of coconut and pineapple and lemon juice.
Shake until icy cold and strain into a hurricane glass filled with crushed ice.
Garnish with a wedge of pineapple, a cherry and the brightest cocktail umbrella
While both cocktails are shaken with blue curaçao and pineapple juice, one look through the hurricane glass and it’s easy to tell the difference between the Blue Hawaiian and the Blue Hawaii! The former is creamy with coconut while the other is clear.
Our Blue Hawaiian cocktail recipe creates a creamy, sweet coconut cocktail that looks more like a Piña Colada with a touch of blue. The Blue Hawaii cocktail recipe however makes a clear, fruity cocktail without creamy coconut. Vodka is added to the rum base with a sweet and sour mix.
The Blue Hawaii cocktail recipe is super simple. Split the Wray and Nephew rum equally with Skyy vodka, pouring 20 ml of each. Reduce the blue curaçao by 15 ml and add bit more pineapple juice (90ml). Add 30 ml of sweet and sour mix or simple syrup with a squeeze of fresh lime. Then shake and strain over fresh crushed ice and garnish with pineapple.
When you mix pineapple juice into your blue curacao, the combination turns your Blue Hawaii cocktail green. Stick with freshly squeezed juice if you prefer less of a green tint. If you use a store bought, pasteurised version it will give the cocktail a more noticeable colour change.
Blue Curaçao was originally made in the 19th century by Dutch settlers in the Caribbean. It’s a medium strength spirit with around 25% ABV’s. It’s a little sweet and a little zesty and used in many of cocktails to give them a blue tint, like in our Blue Marg or the Blue Martini.
