This refreshing Passion Fruit Daiquiri is our favourite Cuban-inspired cocktail featuring white rum to shake up at home.
Our quick & easy rum passion fruit cocktail recipe is both sweet and tangy. It’s best served on a hot day in the summer on a patio or at a Caribbean inspired dinner party.
The tropical drink is prepared with premium white rum, orange liqueur like Triple Sec or Cointreau, fresh lime, and passion fruit juice.
Serve with a passion fruit float and you’ll have your guests gasping with glee!
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What Is A Passion Fruit Daiquiri?
Would you describe yourself as more of a traditional beer and wine drinker? Looking to get your feet wet in the homemade cocktail game?
The Daiquiri is a classic cocktail traditionally made with rum that originated in Cuba.
Daiquiri is also the name of a beach and an iron mine near Santiago de Cuba, and is a word of Taíno origin. The drink was invented by American mining engineer Jennings Cox, who was in Cuba at the time of the Spanish–American War.
Originally the drink was served in a tall glass packed with smashed ice. A teaspoon of sugar was poured over the ice and the juice of one or two limes was squeezed over the sugar. Two or three ounces of white rum completed the cocktail. The glass was then frosted by stirring with a long-handled spoon. Later the daiquiri evolved to be mixed in a cocktail shaker with the same ingredients but with shaved ice. After a thorough shaking, it was poured into a chilled coupe glass.
Consumption of the Cuban cocktail remained local until 1909, when Rear Admiral Lucius W. Johnson, a U.S. Navy medical officer, tried Cox’s drink. Johnson subsequently introduced it to the Army and Navy Club in Washington, D.C., and drinkers of the daiquiri increased over the space of a few decades. It was one of the favorite drinks of writer Ernest Hemingway and President John F. Kennedy.[3]
The drink blew up in popularity during the 1940s. World War II rationing made whiskey and vodka hard to come by, yet rum was easily obtainable due to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor policy, which opened up trade and travel relations with Latin America and the Caribbean. The Good Neighbor policy, also known as the Pan-American program, helped make Latin America fashionable. Consequently, rum-based drinks (once frowned upon as being the choice of sailors and down-and-outs), also became fashionable, and the daiquiri saw a tremendous rise in popularity.
Our Passion Fruit Daiquiri is a rift on the classic Cuban recipe, adding an additional tropical flavour profile to the drink by shaking the standard ingredients with tangy passion fruit juice.
What Is Passion Fruit?
The term ‘passion fruit’ in English comes from the passion flower, as an English translation of the Latin genus name, Passiflora.
Passion fruits are round or oval, and range from a width of 1.5 to 3 inches. They can be yellow, red, purple, and green.
The fruits have a juicy edible centre composed of a large number of seeds. The part of the fruit that is eaten is the pulpy juicy seeds. Passion fruits can also be squeezed to make juice. It is also used in pastries and cocktails like this Passion Fruit Daiquiri recipe.
Passion fruit tastes like a blend of sour and sweet with a very floral finish and citrus notes. It’s a little like pineapple or yellow kiwi, though some say it tastes like grapefruit, pear, and guava.
Travel To Cuba to Taste the World’s Best Rum Passion Fruit Cocktail
There’s no better way to achieve Daiquiri Expert status then by traveling to the cocktails birthplace, the friendly island of Cuba.
Cuba is one of the most popular sun destinations for Canadians, which is why so many cocktail lovers from Vancouver, Calgary and Montreal enjoy the classic Caribbean drink so much. Once you’ve tasted a frozen daiquiri on a sun-soaked Cuban beach it leaves a lasting impression.
I sipped over 50 daiquiri cocktails during my first visit to Cuba, which was a circumnavigation cruise. The 10 day itinerary offered stops to popular Cuban destinations like Trinidad, Punta Frances, Holguin and Santiago de Cuba.
While on holiday you can easily order traditional daiquiri cocktails at popular bars in Havana and breezy rural beach resorts. In Havana, tourists flock to El Floridita Bar, a historic fish restaurant and cocktail bar across from the National Museum of Fine Arts.
If you’re looking for a truly authentic experience visit local Cuban restaurant, order a bowl of Ajiaco Cubano and wash it down with a refreshing Passion Fruit Daiquiri.
The bartender on my cruise made thousands of cocktails a day. I appreciated how he got creative with the recipe by adding fresh fruits. My favourite was his Rum Passion Fruit Cocktail recipe but he also prepared the drink with orange segments, pineapple chunks, mango slices and strawberries.
Passion Fruit Daiquiri Recipe Ingredients
This homemade Passion Fruit Daiquiri recipe is made with fresh and premium ingredients.
- Rum: we suggest using a white rum like Bacardi Superior.
- Orange Liqueur: sweeten the drink and add additional citrus flavour by adding Triple Sec or Cointreau.
- Lime Juice: only use freshly squeezed lime juice. You can taste the difference when someone incorrectly muddles cocktails with store bought citrus juice.
- Passion Fruit Juice: this bright yellow juice adds a tangy tropical flavour to the drink.
- Garnish: slice a passion fruit in half and gently drop it into the cocktail glass so it floats, seed-side up.
Cocktail Recipe Tips
This Passion Fruit Daiquiri recipe is easy to make at home, ready to serve in under 5 minutes.
We love serving this tropical drink on hot days in the summer at family barbecues and Caribbean-themed feasts.
Our Passion Fruit Daiquiri recipe below is listed for one person. If you’re hosting a large gathering feel free to multiply the ingredients by the number of guests and prepare it in a large punch bowl or jug so it’s easy to serve to a crowd.
Before your guests arrive store the Cointreau and rum bottles in the freezer so they are well chilled when you’re ready to shake up the drinks.
Serve this Rum Passion Fruit Cocktail in a rocks glass or coupe glass.
We like to garnish the glass with a passion fruit float but you can also serve with a lime wedge or dehydrated citrus wheel.
Best Selling Rum
While Daiquiris are traditionally prepared with white rum we suggest using more flavourful dark or spiced rums as well.
Here are some of the world’s best selling rum brands, perfect for muddling into a refreshing Passion Fruit Daiquiri recipe:
- Havana Club: is Cuba’s most famous rum brand, originally created in 1934. If you’re visiting Havana on holiday we highly suggest taking the Havana Club tour to learn more about the history of rum production on the island and evolution of the mojito.
- Bacardi: the world’s best selling rum was founded in 1862 in Cuba. The company moved to Puerto Rico due to the revolution and today tourists can visit the Cathedral of Rum in San Juan for the ultimate mojito experience.
- Appleton Estates: is a sugar estate and distillery in Jamaica that has been handcrafting rums since 1749. They produce a wide variety of aged rums, as well as standard gold and white rums.
- Captain Morgan: is a brand of flavoured rums named after the 17th-century Welsh privateer of the Caribbean, Sir Henry Morgan.
- Mount Gay: is a rum produced in Barbados, and dates back to 1703, making it the world’s oldest comercial rum distillery.
- Goslings: is a Bermuda-based brand famous for blending and distributing quality rum. Goslings Rum is famously the main ingredient in the Dark & Stormy cocktail.
- The Kraken: is a Caribbean black spiced rum named after the mythical squid-like sea monster. The premium rum product is produced in Trinidad and Tobago.
- Diplomatico: is a premium rum produced in the Andes Mountains in Venezuela.
- Lamb’s: first launched in 1849 and today is made with rums produced in Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.
- El Dorado: is a premium rum produced in Guyana.
Best Bartender Tools & Cocktail Equipment
Before hosting a swanky Passion Fruit Daiquiri recipe soiree you’ll need to ensure you have the best bartender tools and cocktail equipment.
- Cocktail Kit: cocktail kits are the perfect gift for newbie mixology fans as they include basic bartender tools like a jigger, shaker and spoon.
- Cocktail Shaker: a bartender’s best friend. Purchase a premium cocktail shaker to muddle or shake up your favourite pink gin cocktails.
- Cocktail Glassware: make sure your bar is stocked with a selection of unique glassware to show off your favourite cocktail creations.
- Hawthorne Strainer: this unique strainer features tightly wound coils and perforated holes. It keeps ice and other large ingredients like lime wedges in your cocktail shaker rather than in the glass.
- Bar Spoons: slender and long bar spoons are a must-have when stirring drinks.
- Bottle Opener: easily open bottles of beer or cider with the flick of your wrist or purchase a corkscrew for fine wine.
- Pouring Spout: once you’ve opened a new bottle of gin insert these affordable pourers to make cocktail assembly a breeze.
- Cutting Board: purchase a petite cutting board for your bar to slice garnishes or citrus wedges like lime, orange, lemon or grapefruit.
- Ice Bucket: chill bottles of gin quickly in an ice bucket or keep by the bar when muddling gin mixers into cool creations.
- Ice Crusher: fans of the Mint Julep love an ice crusher.
- Ice Cube Kit: we suggest purchasing a selection of ice cube trays. Silicone styles are our favourite as they’re easy to clean and are available in various shapes and sizes.
- Jigger: use a jigger to accurately measure spirits, juices, syrups and shrubs.
- Juicer: invest in an electronic juicer or buy an affordable hand-held to easily juice fresh citrus like lemons and limes.
- Muddler: fans of the Mojito love a sturdy muddler to mix mint and lime. Muddler’s are handy for any cocktail featuring ingredients that need a pounding like fresh herbs or citrus wedges.
- Citrus Peeler & Zester: adorn your craft cocktails with a thick citrus peel or finer ribbons of lime or lemon zest.
- Rimmer: Bloody Mary and Caesar lovers should outfit their bar with a handy rimmer for salting and sugaring glassware.
Frozen Passion Fruit Daiquiri
Are you a fan of slushy-style cocktails like this Frozen Paloma?
You can easily transform this recipe into a Frozen Passion Fruit Daiquiri by following a few simple steps.
The best frozen daiquiri features a smooth and silky texture, which is best achieved by blending the ingredients in a Vitamix or other high powdered blender.
- Add all Passion Fruit Daiquiri ingredients into a blender with 1 cup of ice.
- Blitz the ingredients for 20-30 seconds until sooth.
- Pour Frozen Daiquiri into a rocks glass or coupe and serve.
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How To Make A Passion Fruit Daiquiri
Passion Fruit Daiquiri Rum Cocktail
Equipment
- Jigger
- Rocks glass
- Cocktail Shaker
- Strainer
- Ice
Ingredients
- 2 oz Rum
- 0.5 oz Orange Liqueur
- 2 oz Passion Fruit Juice
- 0.5 oz Lime Juice
- 1/2 Passion Fruit garnish
Instructions
- In an ice filled cocktail shaker add rum, orange liqueur, passion fruit juice, and lime juice. Shake vigorously for 15-20 seconds until cold.
- Strain into a rocks glass and garnish with half a fresh passion fruit float.
Nutrition
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