Making pina coladas at home

[oldmegan]

Is it possible to make decent pina coladas at home, please? (Special Easter weekend request from visiting family member!) If so, any favourite recipes or tips, pse? We have tried the ready made ones in tins and are not keen. If not pina coladas, any other good cocktails that you have made - they need to contain alcohol and not be virgin cocktails - many thanks in advance. Have a happy Easter!!

[BBWCHATT]

Pina Colada

3 oz Light rum
3 tblsp Coconut milk
3 tblsp Pineapple, Crushed

Put all ingredients into an electric blender with 2 cups of crushed ice. Blend at a high speed for a short length of time. Strain into a collins glass and serve with a straw.



Pina Colada

2 ripe bananas, peeled and chopped into chunks
510.29 g unsweetened pineapple juice
113.40 g sweetened coconut milk (Coco Lopez, usually found in the juice section)
113.40 g rum
473.18 ml ice
59.15 ml coconut

Put banana and pineapple juice in a blender and blend until smooth.
Add Coconut milk, rum and ice.
Blend until it is the consistency of a slush.
Sprinkle with coconut and drink.

[heathfield]

Bbwchatt's recipes will turn out tasting a little sharp. The best Pina Coladas are made using 'Coco Lopez' cream of coconut. This is a syrup made from coconut cream and sugar with a consistency similar to that of Nestle's condensed milk. Hard to find in the UK, though there are a couple of wholesale sellers listed on Google.
Use a dark rum for a better flavour.

(US measures)
4 oz Coco Lopez
4 fl oz pineapple juice
3 fl oz rum
2 cups ice
Blend till the ice is like crushed ice

Whatever the recipe, add a tablespoon or so of Carnation evaporated milk - you'll be surprised at the improvement this makes.

[lafrancaise]

To make it really authentic you need to serve it in half a coconut along with the straw, and fiddly bits!

[BBWCHATT]

Heathfield - let me guess - and it is JUST A GUESS - you didn't read the "Coco Lopez" part of my second recipe:)

[heathfield]

You'r right, Bbwchatt! I was dreaming about the finished item! (And remembering how difficult it is to get hold of Coco Lopez here in the UK. Last time I was in a Walmart store in the US they had 14 cans on the shelf. Bought them all, and brought them home!)

[oldmegan]

Thanks everyone. Cheers!!