Classic Daiquiri Cocktail Recipes

CLASSIC DAIQUIRI

Steps:

• In cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine rum, lime juice, and simple syrup. Shake vigorously, then strain into cocktail glass.

CLASSIC DAIQUIRI COCKTAIL

Steps:

• For simple syrup (make in advance): Add water and sugar to a small pot over medium heat. Stir regularly and bring to a slight simmer. Remove from heat and let cool completely before using.
• TIP: If you're in a rush, you can transfer the hot simple syrup to a metal mixing bowl and place the bowl in a larger bowl full of ice water. Stir the simple syrup and it will chill in a few minutes.
• To make a cocktail: Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker with a good amount of ice. Shake vigorously for 30 seconds. Strain into a chilled glass.

CLASSIC DAIQUIRI

Steps:

• Blend ice, rum, lime juice, triple sec, and 1 teaspoon sugar in a blender on the highest setting until smooth, 15 to 20 seconds. Pour into glass.
• Spread 2 tablespoons sugar in a thin layer onto a small plate. Rub lime wedge around the rim of a glass. Dip glass rim in sugar to coat. Pour blended beverage into the prepared glass to serve.

CLASSIC DAIQUIRI COCKTAIL

Steps:

• Fill a cocktail shaker 1/2 way with ice and add rum, lime juice, and simple syrup
• Cap shaker and shake for 30 seconds
• Strain into martini glasses and float the lime wheels
• Sip
• Smile
• Enjoy

DAIQUIRI

Steps:

• Shake all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker and strain into a cocktail glass. 3 TWISTSStrawberry daiquiriThis cocktail should only be attempted with fruit that's really ripe and sweet - if the berries are the big, bland variety from the chiller cabinet, the end result will just taste of mush. Allow one large handful of hulled strawberries for each cocktail. Place them in the empty shaker and give them a gentle crush with a muddler or pestle, then add the other ingredients and shake as normal and strain into your cocktail glass. Out of season, you could also make a version of this drink using Funkin strawberry purée which will be almost as good. Hemingway's 'Papa Doble' daiquiriThe writer Ernest Hemingway drank at El Floridita in Havana so often they ended up creating a daiquiri recipe especially for him called the Papa Doble, made with a quadruple measure of white rum, lime, grapefruit juice and maraschino liqueur. I don't think many of us could handle a drink this size - as delicious as it is - so I've scaled it back a bit: 50ml white rum, 15ml pink grapefruit juice, 15ml lime juice, 15ml Luxardo maraschino liqueur, 5ml sugar syrup, shaken and strained into a cocktail glass or blended with ice, depending on what you prefer. La Terraza's blue daiquiriAnother place Hemingway liked to drink when he went fishing was a little waterside bar about 10 miles outside Havana called La Terraza. La Terraza's signature daiquiri is made with blue curaçao, so it's the colour of a lagoon. You can make one too, simply by substituting 15ml Bols Blue curaçao in a normal daiquiri in place of the sugar syrup. A delicious guilty pleasure on a summer's day, especially with a cocktail umbrella.