Bet Your Guests Have Never Had These Piña Colada Twists

National Piña Colada Day is Wednesday, July 10. This tropical cocktail is a staple on summertime menus and usually includes rum, cream of coconut, and pineapple juice.

But we've rounded up a collection of piña colada recipes that come with a twist in the form of an unexpected ingredient, flavor, or spirit. Check out the list below and get ready to surprise your guests!

Banana Colada

Ingredients:

1.5 oz Bacardi Silver
1 half of a fresh banana
2 oz Coco Lopez
3 oz Dole Pineapple Juice

Directions:

1. Build in blender.
2. Add ice and till frothy.
3. Pour into hurricane glass and top with whipped cream and cinnamon! 

Purple Paradise

Ingredients:

0.75 oz House Coconut Cream with a 1 "squirt" or dasher of UBE flavoring 
1 of of fresh squeezed pineapple juice
1 oz of Bourbon
0.75 oz Silver Rum 
2 dash of Bittermens Tiki Bitters
Choice of garnish: pineapple Frond, pineapple slice (fresh or dehydrated), pineapple tuile & edible flower (pictured)

Directions:

1. Chill your favorite Tiki glass
2. Prepare coconut cream by carefully simmering coconut milk & adding granulated (or coconut) sugar until sweetness level desired. Next add your ube to your cream.
3. In a boston shaker, add all ingredients and shake until chilled.
4. Strain over ice into your glass. Garnish as desired.

Casa Piña Colada

Ingredients:

1.5 oz. Casamigos Reposado Tequila

1.5 oz. Fresh Pineapple Juice

.75 oz. Coconut Purée

.5 oz. Fresh Lime Juice

2 Dashes Aromatic Bitters

1 Pinch Cinnamon

Garnish 2 Pineapple Leaves + Cinnamon Dusting 

Directions:

1. Combine all ingredients into a cocktail shaker.
2. Add ice, shake vigorously and strain into a Collins glass.
3. Add fresh ice, topping off with pebble/crushed ice (preferred), creating a dome-like top and garnish.

Hibiscus Colada

Ingredients:

2 oz. Tequila Cazadores Reposado
1 oz. The Perfect Purée Sweet Hibiscus, thawed
1 oz. The Perfect Purée Coconut Puree, thawed
3 oz. pineapple juice
Pinch of nutmeg powder

Directions:

1. In a blender combine all the ingredients with ice, except nutmeg.
2. Blend and pour into glass.
3. Top with nutmeg and garnish with lime, lemon and hibiscus flower.
    

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