Blue Hawaiian Cocktail

🍹 Why We Love This Recipe

• Refreshing and tropical: With coconut milk, pineapple, lime, and lemon juices and Blue Curaçao (a bright blue, orange-flavored liqueur), this cocktail is incredibly bright, refreshing, and full of delicious tropical flavors. Even with three types of alcohol, it's easy to sip!
• Fun color: Blue Curaçao, pineapple juice and coconut milk team up to create a stunning blue-green color that will seriously impress (and intrigue) your friends and family.
• Super easy: Just add everything to a cocktail shaker and shake!

🍍 Ingredients

Here's what you'll need to make this blue hawaiian cocktail:

📋 Ingredient Notes

• Coconut milk: A classic Blue Hawaiian cocktail actually uses cream of coconut, but we prefer regular coconut milk for a slightly less sweet option. Be sure to use lite (not full fat) coconut milk, or else the cocktail will end up a bit too thick. We use coconut milk from a can, which has much more flavor (and fewer preservatives) than anything that comes in a carton. You can typically find canned coconut milk near other southeast Asian ingredients at your grocery store.
  • Note: be sure to shake up the can of coconut well before adding to the cocktail. If the cream is very separated from the liquid at the bottom of the can, you may need to transfer to a bowl to whisk (or a blender).
• Fresh fruit juices: Freshly squeezed lemon and lime juices will really elevate the flavor of this cocktail. That being said, you don't have to worry about making your own fresh pineapple juice – we used a canned/bottled juice. For best results, opt for 100% pineapple juice, not the stuff from concentrate.
• Blue Curaçao: If you've never worked with it before, blue curaçao is a bright blue liqueur flavored with Laraha, or Curaçao orange. If you don't have any, you can sub with another orange liqueur like Cointreau, and then add in a few drops of blue food coloring.
• Simple syrup: You can make your own with equal parts sugar and water, or simply use store bought. You can also sub with agave syrup if preferred.
• Rum: White rum is best in this Blue Hawaiian cocktail. We typically use white rum in mixed drinks with several ingredients – it's less expensive than aged dark rum, and also doesn't have quite as intense of a flavor.
• Vodka: Any variety will do in this Blue Hawaiian cocktail. You don't have to use your most expensive bottle since there are so many other ingredients!

🔪 Step-by-step Instructions

(1) Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled halfway with ice. Shake vigorously for 10-15 seconds.

(2) Divide between two glasses with ice, and serve with an orange slice and/or pineapple wedge and a maraschino cherry.

💭 Expert Tips and FAQs

• Garnishes: For a traditional Blue Hawaiian garnish, opt for a pineapple wedge, a maraschino cherry and a cocktail umbrella. We also love adding in an orange wedge for extra color.
• Make sure to use lite coconut milk instead of full fat, otherwise the texture will be off.
• No Blue Curaçao? Sub with Cointreau or Triple Sec and a few drops of blue food coloring.
• Freshly squeezed juices are the best way to take your cocktails (and specifically this Blue Hawaiian cocktail) to the next level. Invest in a high quality citrus squeezer/juicer – it makes all the difference! You don't need anything super fancy or high tech.

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