Pineapple Cocktail Recipes: Pineapple Mint Mojito & Pineapple Cosmopolitan

It's a long holiday weekend and there's lots to do! Start the weekend out right by relaxing with one of these delicious pineapple cocktails, perfect for the end of summer. Try a refreshing and light Pineapple Mojito with rum, pineapple, and mint. Or if you're in the mood for a Cosmo with a sweet spin, try my Pineapple Cosmopolitan. Either way, have a great holiday weekend!

PINEAPPLE MINT MOJITOS

Makes 6-8 depending on serving size

1 cup pineapple juice

1 bunch fresh mint leaves- no stems

½ cup sugar or use mint simple syrup to taste, recipe below

2 limes, sliced

1 cup white rum

1 cup club soda

Ice

*Splash Malibu Pineapple Rum, optional

*Sugar cane sticks, optional

Put the sugar, lime, and mint leaves into a pitcher or divide into serving glasses. Use a wooden spoon or a muddler to crush the mint, sugar, and lime together. Add the ice and top off with the pineapple juice, white rum, and club soda. Stir with a sugar cane stick if you can find it and garnish with pineapple wedge. 

Note: I added a splash of Malibu Pineapple Rum to mine and it was even better! It is too sweet to make the whole drink but a splash kicks the flavor up a notch.

For more mint flavor in your Mojito, use my MINT SIMPLE SYRUP

PINEAPPLE COSMOPOLITAN

FYI: You can make your own pineapple vodka or buy one like Skyy or Van Gogh Pineapple. It takes at least two days up to two weeks to infuse the vodka.

Makes 6

2 cups chopped fresh pineapple

2 cups vodka

1 cup cranberry juice

1 tablespoon fresh lime juice

Ice

Lime slices for garnish

For the pineapple vodka: To infuse the vodka with pineapple flavor, put the pineapple in the vodka and let sit for at least two days in the fridge. A week is best.

Strain the vodka into a pitcher, discarding the fruit. Add the cranberry and lime juices and the crushed ice and stir well. Strain into chilled martini glasses and serve garnished with lime slices.

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