Easy Tiki Cocktail with Pineapple
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Made with three kinds of rum – light, dark, and coconut – plus pineapple juice and fresh squeezed citrus, this refreshing and easy tiki cocktail comes together quickly and will make your happy hour feel a bit more tropical.
Tiki drinks can be intimidating with a long list of ingredients. They’re traditionally rum-based with lots of fresh juice and mixers. All that fresh juice gives these cocktails a sweet and fruity vibe, making them the perfect summery drink.
Tiki recipes can get complicated and use ingredients that aren’t easy to find. My goal with this recipe wasn’t necessarily to make it easy my shortening the ingredient list, but simplifying the ingredients themselves.
The three rums in this tiki cocktail – white rum, dark rum, and coconut rum – are all national brands that are easy to find in any U.S. liquor store and can be purchased at a variety of bottle sizes to give you options on price. All of the other ingredients are found in any grocery store or in the mixer section of major liquor stores.
Ingredients
- White rum – Choose your favorite. Bacardi is the most common and easy to find white rums on the U.S. market. It’s great for this recipe as well as mojitos.
- Coconut rum – Malibu rum is my favorite coconut rum and is also super easy to find in stores. (Use it in this cocktail, and also to make this Malibu Bay Breeze.)
- Dark rum – Dark rum is an essential tiki drink ingredient. A little goes a long way, but it’s needed to give this cocktail depth of flavor.
- Orgeat syrup – A sweet almond syrup (it contains nuts!), orgeat is found in the mixer section of your favorite liquor store. If you have a nut allergy or can’t find orgeat syrup, just leave it out of the cocktail and increase the simple syrup by
- Simple syrup – Traditional simple syrup is easy to make at home with two ingredients – sugar and water! Mix it up ahead of time so it can chill before making your cocktail.
- Pineapple juice – Choose 100% pineapple juice, not juice blends or mixes.
- Orange – Fresh citrus is what makes a good cocktail a great one. Don’t use bottled juice and squeeze a fresh orange.
- Lime – Choose a fresh lime for this cocktail. You’ll need about half a lime per drink.
How to Make an Easy Tiki Cocktail
Combine light rum, dark rum, coconut rum, pineapple juice, orgeat syrup, simple syrup, lime juice, and orange juice in a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes.
Shake well for 10-15 seconds and strain into a glass filled with ice.
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Easy Tiki Cocktail Recipe
Ingredients
- 1.5 oz coconut rum
- 1 oz white rum
- 0.75 oz dark rum
- 1 oz orgeat syrup
- 1 oz simple syrup
- 2 oz pineapple juice
- 1 oz orange juice, fresh squeezed
- 0.5 oz lime juice, fresh squeezed
Instructions
- Combine everything in a cocktail shaker filled with ice cubes.1.5 oz coconut rum, 1 oz white rum, 0.75 oz dark rum, 1 oz orgeat syrup, 1 oz simple syrup, 2 oz pineapple juice, 1 oz orange juice, 0.5 oz lime juice
- Shake well for 10-15 seconds.
- Strain into a tall glass filled with ice cubes.
- Sip and enjoy!
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Glasses for Serving an Easy Tiki Cocktail – This is a high volume drink and when you add the ice, it’ll fill a large glass. If you don’t have any tiki glasses on hand, use a highball glass or a pint glass. Want to add some tiki glasses to your home bar? Check out my Amazon Shop page full of my favorite Tiki Glassware.
Happy Hour Snacks to Serve with Easy Tiki Cocktails
A sweet cocktail needs a salty snack! Try my savory spiced nuts made with fresh rosemary, or these bacon wrapped dates with almonds. Or go for something a little more fresh like these Strawberry Bites with Cream Cheese or a batch of Whipped Feta Bruschetta with Sun-Dried Tomatoes.
Looking for More Rum Cocktail Recipes?
Rum cocktails are delicious and especially refreshing in the summer months. A Blue Hawaiian, some Rum Punch, or Blue Mojito are perfect poolside sips. These blueberry mojitos are a twist on classic mojitos and combine fresh mint and blueberries with light rum and club soda for a fizzy cocktail. Or try my take on a Hemingway Daiquiri, a less-sweet drink named for writer Earnest Hemingway who famously loved dry rum cocktails.
Sounds delicious!