I have only visited the pool a handful of times this year, but the last time I was there I knew that I wanted to make a frozen concoction to sip-on while floating around. My mind automatically went to tropical, so I bought a pineapple.
The great thing about using pineapple for a cocktail, beside the sweetness and it's ability to play well with most liquors, is that it is very juicy. So juicy that when tossed in a blender alone releases a ton of liquid juice and not a lot of pulp/fruit mush.
I wanted to create something simple, with few ingredients, and with no added sugar. After chopping and blending the pineapple I added the gin and just a touch of 100% pineapple juice. To make the cocktail more well rounded I added a banana and it was done.
Blended with ice to turn the cocktail into a smoothie of sorts, it was ready to consume. Split between three only yielded a drink per person; I loved it so much I was wishing I had a second pineapple to make another batch.
The Spiked Pineapple
- 1 whole pineapple
- 1/2 cup of Pineapple Juice
- 1 banana
- 1 cup of gin*
- Ice
- Chop the pineapple and banana.
- Blend until smooth.
- Add the gin, pineapple juice, and ice.
- Blend until smooth.
- Pour into a pool-proof glass and garnish with a slice of pineapple and fresh picked flowers.
Cheers!
*To be honest this drink needed Rum, not Gin, because Rum would add a more tropical complex flavor, but either way I sucked down this drink in about 10 minutes.
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