Friday 24 June 2011

Sexy Strawberry Daiquiri's


The best thing about these bad boys is that they taste just as awesome with or without the rum. Plus fruit (even if it is mixed with a sugar laced syrup) surely counts as one of your five a day.  I've seen quite a few recipes which use sugar cane syrup, but it's not always easy to get hold of. This recipe uses a super duper easy home made sugar syrup which you can knock up and keep in the fridge until the earth ends because it never goes off. Plus if you want to whip some more cocktails up at a later date you'll have your syrup a'ready and a'waiting. It amazes me sometimes that I'm not a member of Mensa.

Ingredients
  •  6 Fl Oz Rum, or you can use Vodka. If your wanting your daiquiris on the t-total side skip the spirits
  • 260g Strawberries (or raspberries if you prefer)
  • Juice of 2-3 limes
  • 4-5 fl oz Stock syrup (see recipe below)
  • Few handfuls of crushed ice to serve
Extras
  • Knife
  • Blender/smoothie maker
  • Glasses
Method
  • Cut the tops off your strawberries and throw them in the blender with the juice of the limes, the syrup and if your adding rum chuck that in to. Whizz the whole lot together until its smooth. If the cocktail is a tad sharp add some more syrup to sweeten the mixture. Crush some ice in glasses of your choice and pour over the daiquiri mix. Put on your favourite summer frock, and daiquiri in hand moon for hot weather.
  • You can make the syrup mix well in advance, just make sure its cool by the time you use it for your cocktails. Bring 300ml's of water and 300g of caster sugar to the boil over a gentle heat, giving it a stir every now and then to dissolve the sugar. When the sugar has melted, boil the mixture for a few minutes and then allow to cool. Keep in a sterilised jar or bottle. Don't know how to sterilise jars? see my tutorial here.
     

9 comments:

  1. Oooh,I will be saving this recipe :)
    Annie x

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  2. YUMMY! I love daquiris, will try and get this right. I am so rubbish at this sort of thing.

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  3. Yes please, just what I need to start the weekend! Nom. Nice one on the sugar syrup recipe, I'll be using that one in the future - thanks!

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  4. I've never had Daiquiri cocktail before, but will be trying it out now. It's definitely one of your five a day!

    Barrina x

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  5. ooh this looks yum :)

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  6. Hey girl! I wanted to say thanks for following my blog! =)

    And I wanted to say that I think your blog is so cute and the photos look very delicious! Yummy! :)

    So have a nice day!
    xo, Nina <3

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  7. OMG that look so delicious!! I'll try to do that someday and i'll tell you.

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  8. thought I'd come over to let you know I saw your tip on the posietint! I was in boots today and went over to try them out- quite surreal how they feel like applying nail varnish but the formula is obviously different!

    These look so delicious, I can almost taste them! I'd definitely like to try these =)

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  9. @maya its kinda weird isn't it?feels very wrong putting it on your face! did you like it?
    they are very yum indeed,with or without rum!x

    @ Nina and @paula they are so yum and so easy! x

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